Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ VM (USP VM) blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry-level enterprises and fast-growing midsize organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises.
Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in a way never possible before. The USP VM, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers the innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning, and universal replication for open systems and mainframe environments.
The industry’s highest-reliability and availability storage solution is backed by a set of storage and data services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning™ software, application-centric storage management, and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.
An integral component of the Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS) architecture from Hitachi Data Systems, the Hitachi USP VM provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi USP V packages and delivers critical services such as:
- Thin provisioning
- I/O load balancing
- Nondisruptive data migration
- Volume management across heterogeneous storage arrays
- Security services (immutability, logging, auditing, and data shredding)
- Business continuity services
Services Oriented Storage Solutions enable IT organizations to present business clients with a menu of storage attributes (such as performance, availability, cost and security) and charge for those services based on the client's selection. Services Oriented Storage Solutions can lower costs, extend lifetime value and simplify management activities. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM lets you deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and more closely align IT to your business objectives.
- Excellent performance: 1.2 million I/Os per second (IOPS), 13.3 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Superior scalability: up to 96PB of total storage capacity under management, including up to 105.7 of Fibre Channel (FC) internal storage or 236.3TB of SATA internal storage
- Flash drives for exceptional performance of certain types of business critical applications
- Encryption of data at rest for internal storage
- Up to eight Virtual Storage Machines: logical partitions, dedicating cache, ports and internally and externally attached capacity to ensure application quality of service (QoS)
- Superior multiplatform connectivity: up to 48 Fibre Channel, 24 IBM® ESCON® and 24 IBM FICON® host ports and network-attached storage (NAS)
- Virtualization of internally and externally attached storage from Hitachi, EMC, IBM, Sun, HP and other manufacturers
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Software for thin provisioning of internal and virtualized external storage
- Nondisruptive movement, copy and migration of data between storage, including other vendors, without interrupting the application
- Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms for open and mainframe environments
- Storage based fail over
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Multi-protocol consolidation with Fibre Channel (FC), IBM FICON and ESCON and network-attached storage (NAS)
- Single-pane-of-glass management with Hitachi Storage Command Suite software
- Powered by the fourth generation Hitachi Universal Star Network crossbar switch architecture
- Rackless option available
- Simplify operations with one set of tools for heterogeneous data management and replication
- Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), simplify administration, eliminate application interruptions, and reduce power and cooling requirements with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning™ software
- Protect your investment and extend the life of existing storage assets
- Move, copy, and migrate data nondisruptively between heterogeneous tiered storage
- Avoid resource contention and ensure application QoS with Virtual Storage Machines
- Meet governmental compliance regulations and legal requirements to protect your most critical data
- Archiving mainframe data to virtualized serial ATA (SATA)-based storage systems
- Enables you to align storage resources with constantly changing business and application requirements
