The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software transforms the data center, making IT more agile:
The only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types
The only storage architecture to flexibly adapt data storage infrastructures for performance, capacity and multivendor storage to optimize return on storage assets
Data mobility to reduce business impact when adapting to change
- Highly efficient design for the best performance and capacity combined with lowest power and cooling requirements
- Unique dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers for block, file and content data
- 3D scaling delivers a storage environment that is more reliable, dynamic and open.
- More reliable with leading data protection and high availability capabilities
- More dynamic, automating data placement and addition of resources
- More open, supporting a wide variety of operating systems, data types, storage and server environments
3D scaling allows for optimal infrastructure growth in all dimensions
- Scale up to meet increasing demands by dynamically adding virtual storage directors, ports, cache and capacity to a control chassis, providing the highest performance for both open and mainframe environments.
- Scale out to meet multiple demands by dynamically combining multiple control chassis into a logical system with shared resources; support increased demand in virtualized server environments; ensure safe multi-tenancy and quality of service through partitioning of cache, ports and access control based on resource group.
- Scale deep to extend storage value by dynamically virtualizing new, existing external storage systems and extend Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform advanced functions to multivendor storage; offload less demanding data to external tiers in order to optimize the availability of the tier one resources.
Server virtualization has significantly increased the utilization of server resources and reduced the number of real physical servers. Blade servers have reduced the footprint of the servers, conserving floor space and cooling in the data center. This consolidation of virtual servers is driving an increasing need to consolidate and scale up storage systems.
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform scales in three dimensions.
Scale Up
- Twice the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V, 192 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Up to 255PB of total storage capacity under management, including internal storage up to 2,048 SAS 2.5” drives (1.2PB of storage) or 1,280 SATA 3.5” drives (2.5PB)
- Up to 256 flash drives supported for exceptional performance
- Unmatched multiplatform connectivity: up to 192 Fibre Channel 8 Gbits host ports, 192 IBM® FICON® 8 Gbits host ports, 96 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host 10 Gbits port and network-attached storage (NAS)
Scale Out
- Up to 8 virtual storage directors and 1TB single image global cache
- Powered by the fifth-generation Hitachi Hierarchical Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture which joins multiple control chassis under one logical system
Scale Deep
- Virtualization of internally and externally attached storage from Hitachi, EMC, IBM, Sun and other manufacturers
- Multitenancy support enabled by virtual port, cache partitioning, resource group access control and volume ownership management
3D Management Platform
- Single-pane-of-glass management with Hitachi Command Suite
Data Mobility
- Nondisruptive movement, copy and migration of data between storage, including third party storage, without interrupting the application
Efficiency
- High density design which holds 2.5PB in six 19” standard racks
- Automated data placement for virtual volumes
- Single image global cache accessible across all virtual storage directors for maximum performance
- Latest 2.5” SAS drive for lower power consumption and higher density per rack
- Hitachi Command Suite for faster and simpler management
Dynamic Tiering
- Dynamic tiering automates data placement for higher performance and lower cost. It manages internal and external data, including multivendor and mainframe data. Its pools optimize the right data in the right place at the right time with no performance degradation.
Server Virtualization
- Integration with VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI):
- Hardware-assisted Locking provides an alternative means to protecting the VMFS cluster file system’s metadata
- Full copies of data within the array without the VMware vSphere host reading and writing the data
- Array based block zeroing: large number of blocks to enhance the deployment of large-scale VMs
- Integration of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to automate business continuity and protection
- Integration with Microsoft Virtual Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for enhanced data protection
Eco-friendly
- Hitachi certified Super Eco-Product
- 40% better capacity per square foot and 48% lower power consumption per terabyte compared to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V
- Transparent space reclaims capability of existing allocated storage
Data Resilience
- Universal data replication for open systems and mainframe environments across multiple data centers
- Application-aware replication management
- Storage based fail over for active-active site protection
- Encryption of data at rest for internal storage
Mainframe
- Enhanced support for dynamically provisioned virtual volumes
Virtualization of internally and externally attached storage:
Hitachi
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family
- Hitachi Lightning 7700 Series
- Hitachi Lightning 9900™ Series
- Hitachi Lightning 9900V Series
- Hitachi Network Storage Controller
- Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100
- Hitachi Thunder 9200™
- Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform®
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
- Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
3Par
- 3PAR InServ S400
- ATDX
- Array MasStor L
EMC
- EMC CLARiiON CX200
- EMC CLARiiON CX3
- EMC CLARiiON CX300
- EMC CLARiiON CX4
- EMC CLARiiON CX400
- EMC CLARiiON CX500
- EMC CLARiiON CX600
- EMC CLARiiON CX700
- EMC Symmetrix 3830
- EMC Symmetrix 3930
- EMC Symmetrix 8530
- EMC Symmetrix 8730
- EMC Symmetrix 8830
- EMC Symmetrix DMX1000
- EMC Symmetrix DMX2000
- EMC Symmetrix DMX-3
- EMC Symmetrix DMX-4
- EMC Symmetrix DMX3000
- EMC Symmetrix DMX800
- EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Fujitsu
- ETERNUS3000
- ETERNUS4000
- ETERNUS8000
- FibreCAT CX3-80
Gateway
HP
- HP EVA6400
- HP EVA8400
- HP StorageWorks EVA3000
- HP StorageWorks EVA4000/4100/4400
- HP StorageWorks EVA5000
- HP StorageWorks EVA6000/6100
- HP StorageWorks EVA8000/8100
- HP StorageWorks P9500
- HP StorageWorks XP10000
- HP StorageWorks XP1024
- HP StorageWorks XP12000
- HP StorageWorks XP128
- HP StorageWorks XP20000
- HP StorageWorks XP24000
- HP StorageWorks XP48
- HP StorageWorks XP512
- HP SVS200
- HP XP256
IBM
- IBM System Storage DS3400
- IBM System Storage DS4300 (FAStT600)
- IBM System Storage DS4400 (FAStT700)
- IBM System Storage DS4500 (FAStT900)
- IBM System Storage DS4700
- IBM System Storage DS4800
- IBM System Storage DS5100
- IBM System Storage DS5300
- IBM System Storage DS6000
- IBM System Storage DS8000
- IBM Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
- IBM TotalStorage DS4100 (FAStT100)
- IBM TotalStorage ESS2105
- IBM XIV Storage System
NetApp
- FAS3000 series
- FAS6000 series
NexSAN Technologies
- ATABeast
- SASBeast
- SATABeast
- SATABeast2
Pillar Data Systems
- Pillar Axiom 300
- Pillar Axiom 500
- Pillar Axiom 600
Sun Microsystems
- StorEdge 6540
- StorEdge 6580/6780
- StorageTek 9985V
- Sun StorageTek 2540
- Sun StorageTek 9960/9910
- Sun StorageTek 9980/9970
- StorageTek 9990/9985
- Sun StorageTek 9990V
- Sun StorageTek BC82
- Sun StorageTek D178
- Sun StorageTek D240
- Sun StorageTek D280
- Sun StorageTek FlexLine 240
- Sun StorageTek FlexLine 280
- Sun StorageTek FlexLine 380
- Sun StorageTek SVA
- Sun StorEdge 3510
- Sun StorEdge 3511
- Sun StorEdge 6120/6320
- Sun StorEdge 6130
- Sun StorEdge 6140
- Sun StorEdge T3B (T3BES and T3BWG)
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