Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
Reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V (USP V) has redefined the storage industry. It represents the world’s first implementation of a large scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool has finally been achieved. Customers can obtain the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualization with the efficiencies, power, and cooling advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.
Everyone from mid-sized growing companies to the largest global organizations can now benefit from the industry’s highest performing and most scalable storage solution. It 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 V 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
- Volume management across heterogeneous storage systems
- Nondisruptive data migration
- Security services (immutability, logging, auditing, data shredding)
- Business continuity services
- Content management services (search, indexing)
- Data de-duplication
- Data classification
- File management services
SOSS enables 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. SOSS can lower costs, extend lifetime value, and simplify management activities. The Hitachi USP V enables you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage-and add value to-current investments, and more closely align IT with business objectives.
Features
- Superior performance: More than 4 million I/Os per second (IOPS), 106 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Superior scalability: 247PB of total storage capacity including up to 332TB of Fibre Channel internal storage or 864TB of SATA internal storage
- Superior connectivity: up to 224 Fibre Channel (FC), 112 ESCON, or 112 FICON ports
- Powered by the fourth-generation Universal Star Network™ V crossbar switch architecture
- Virtualization of internally and externally attached storage
- Thin provisioning software
- Logical partitioning of internally and externally attached storage resources
- Intelligent tiering of data between Fibre Channel and high capacity serial ATA (SATA) hard drives
- Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Multi-protocol consolidation with FC, FICON®, ESCON®, and network-attached storage (NAS)
- Single pane of glass management with Hitachi Storage Management Suite software
Benefits
- Simplify operations with one set of tools for heterogeneous data management and replication
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO), simplify the application storage provisioning process, 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 quality of service (QoS) with Virtual Storage Machines™
- Meet governmental compliance regulations and legal requirements to protect your most critical data
- Hitachi SOSS enable you to align storage resources with constantly changing business and application requirements
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Network Storage Controller Specifications
Press and Analyst Coverage
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, which is based on control unit virtualization, solves these problems because it supports different types of storage without introducing another layer of complexity." — Data Center Magazine Read More...
"ESG Lab tests on the USP V focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the system’s improved performance, which Hitachi delivers within the context of its Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture." — Enterprise Strategy Group Read More...
"Data migrations large and small now can be done any time-not just on weekends." — eWEEK Read More...
Hitachi Data Systems Universal Storage Platform wins award in TechTarget Products of the Year 2007 for disk and disk subsystems. Only the top three products in each catagory received awards. Read More...
"Hitachi’s Continued Assault on Innovation" — ITCentrix. Read More...
"Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V Named Finalist in SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine 2007 Product of the Year awards." Read More...
"Hitachi engineers have achieved an incredible technological advancement by enabling the Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) to support thin provisioning (Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning [HDP]) of external storage." — Josh Krischer & Associates. Read More...
"Reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, the Hitachi USP V has redefined the storage industry. It represents the world’s first implementation of a large-scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin-provisioning software. " — Ovum. Read More...
"The USP V marks the introduction of enterprise-class virtualization combined with thin provisioning-an industry first." — Enterprise Strategy Group. Read More...
"In terms of scalability to the petabyte range combined with operational consolidation and depth of storage-based services deliverable to a wide range of applications and operating environments, the USP V has no present equal." — Illuminata. Read More...
"Competitive solutions consume 60-percent more budget dollars than the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, demonstrating that Hitachi is actually increasing its total cost of ownership (TCO) advantage relative to the competition." — ITCentrix. Read More...
"USP-V makes an even bigger statement about consolidating and managing from a single point of control for both mainframe and open-systems disk. That's a threat to EMC and IBM." — eWEEK. Read More...
Few would argue with Hu Yoshida, Hitachi VP and CTO, who said today that the new universal controller "will blow the socks off the industry". It will certainly be interesting to see how major competitors like EMC and IBM will respond. Hoshida's slightly O.T.T. claim was that the USP V "has no limits as its only limitation". (I do see what he means.) — ITDirector. Read More...
"HDS is leapfrogging other large storage vendors by paying close attention to augmenting virtualization for enterprises dependent upon high-end storage arrays, instead of investing research and development dollars into products small-to-medium size businesses". — Computerworld. Read More...
"But USP goes beyond just "speeds and feeds," when viewed in the context of big corporations having to deal with a "staggering" 50% to 60% annual increase of data, John Webster, analyst for Illuminata, said. "When you're dealing with growth in that range, you really need to figure out a way to consolidate the management of that growth. Otherwise, you really get behind the eight ball". — InformationWeek. Read More...
"Yoshida sees four fundamental factors necessary to increasing storage efficiency and managing the exploding growth of data:" Read More...
