Hitachi Unified Storage VM Product Overview Guide
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Contents
Storage virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
High flexibility and wide applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Separation of server and storage functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
High namespace scalability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Advanced multitier storage mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Effective data reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Hardware Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
System management unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Fibre channel (FC) switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
External fast ethernet (10/100) or GigE switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
10 GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) switches (cluster configurations only) . . . . . 2-12
Software Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Block Module software features and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Performance Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
System Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
File module storage system software features and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Block replication and SyncDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Summary of Contents for Unified Storage VM
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