Universal Storage Platform VM
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ VM blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry level enterprises and fast growing mid-sized 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 Universal Storage Platform VM, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers proven and innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning and universal replication for open systems and mainframe environments in a rack mounted storage services platform.
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 Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM packages and delivers critical services such as:
- Virtualization of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
- Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
- Security services, business continuity services and content management services
- Load balancing to improve application performance
- Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems
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.
Brocade und die Hitachi Universal Storage Platform Familie
Executives von Brocade und von Hitachi Data Systems diskutieren den Zusammenschluss von Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V und Brocade DCX Backbone und die damit zusammenhängenden Vorteile für die Datenzentren von Kunden.
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Features
- 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 94.5TB of Fibre Channel (FC) internal storage or 236.3TB of SATA 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
- 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
Benefits
- Reduces business risk
- Increases business agility
- Lowers total cost of ownership
- Helps comply with regulatory compliance and corporate governance
- Enables more eco-friendly data centers
Press and Analyst Coverage
"Hitachi continues to enhance its high-end storage systems and cross-platform storage management software at an industry record pace. The fact that the company can deliver advanced storage services that businesses can quickly and economically deploy across their entire storage infrastructure makes it a very powerful and attractive customer value proposition." — Josh Krischer, founder, Josh Krischer & Associates states: Read More...
"Data migrations large and small now can be done any time—not just on weekends." — eWEEK Read More...
"Hitachi "Innovation Machine" Strikes Again with USP V and USP VM Enhancements, November 2007" — Josh Krischer & Associates. Read More...
"Hitachi USP VM — An Important Step Toward Virtualizing the Data Center." — Enterprise Strategy Group. Read More...
"Strategic Options for Virtualized Storage Services." — ITCentrix. Read More...
"Hitachi USP VM — the "Little Big Man" Disk Storage Subsystem." — Josh Krischer & Associates. Read More...
"Hitachi extends controller—based storage virtualization." — Ovum Read More...
"Hitachi's USP VM: Services Oriented Storage for SME." — Illuminata, Inc. Read More...
