Overview: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: HDS terms its Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) as the industry's only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types.

Features

Scale Up

The platform provides twice the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, 192 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth.

There is 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). Moroover, it also supports up to 256 flash drives.

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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 eight 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

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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

Automated page level placement across internal and external storage tiers, including multivendor tiers

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 percent better capacity per square foot and 48 percent lower power consumption per terabyte compared to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

Transparent space reclaims capability of existing allocated storage

Data ResilienceUniversal 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

Source: HDS