Examples of supported VSP G800 configurations
The following table lists the maximum number of drive trays and drives supported in a
system configuration. A diskless configuration does not include any drive trays.
Drive tray
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
Maximum number of drives
supported
SFF drive tray
48
1152 HDDs or SSDs
LFF drive tray
48
576 HDDs or SSDs
FMD drive tray
48
576 HAF flash module drives
Dense intermix drive
tray
24
-
Note: If a drive is inserted into a slot of a dense intermix drive tray when the
installed number of drives exceeds 240 slots per path, the drive is blocked.
Maximum number of mounted drive trays
The following table lists the maximum number of mountable drive trays and mountable
drives for each drive type.
Note: If a drive is inserted into a slot of a dense intermix drive tray when the
installed number of drives exceeds 240 slots per path, the drive is blocked.
VSP G800
controller
Drive trays
Maximum number
of trays
Maximum number
of drives
CBLH
SFF
48
1152 HDDs or SSDs
LFF
48
576 HDDs or SSDs
FMD
48
576 FMDs (HAF)
FMD
4
40 FMDs + 2 spares
(DC2)
48 FMDs
Dense intermix
drive tray
24
1440 HDDs or
SSDs
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Examples of supported VSP G800 configurations
Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G800 hardware overview
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