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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

Products : Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VReaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ 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 Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V 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
  • I/O load balancing to improve application performance
  • Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems

Services Oriented Storage Solutions 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. Services Oriented Storage Solutions can lower costs, extend lifetime value and simplify management activities. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform 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.

  • Superior performance: More than 4 million I/Os per second (IOPS), 106 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
  • Storage Performance Council Hails the Hitachi USP V as the Highest Performing Storage System in the Industry - Sept. 8, 2008
    SPC Benchmark 2™ Executive Summary, SPC Benchmark 2™ Full Disclosure Report
  • Outstanding scalability: up to 247PB of total storage capacity under management, including up to 507.5 of Fibre Channel internal storage or 1,134.5TB 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 32 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 224 Fibre Channel, 112 IBM® ESCON®, and 112 IBM FICON® host ports and network-attached storage (NAS)
  • Virtualization of internally and externally attached storage from Hitachi, EMC, IBM, Sun 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 for open systems and mainframe environments
  • Storage based fail over and migration
  • 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™ V crossbar switch architecture

 

  • 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


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