Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
Reaching 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.
Brocade and the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform Family
Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems executives talk about the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Brocade DCX Backbone combined solutions and related benefits for customers' data centers.
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Features
- Superior performance: More than 4 million I/Os per second (IOPS), 106 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Outstanding scalability: up to 247PB of total storage capacity under management, including up to 453.7TB of Fibre Channel internal storage or 1,134.5TB of SATA 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
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Multi-protocol consolidation with Fibre Channel, IBM FICON and ESCON, and 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
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
"Announced the successful completion of compatibility and interoperability testing for the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server, the IBM next-generation mainframe which IBM announced earlier this year."
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“Enterprises that deploy integrated solutions, such as the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, will be better able to maximize efficiencies within their storage infrastructure. Improved storage economics are achieved by enabling storage administrators to manage a greater amount of capacity per person. This, combined with a comprehensive IT risk management and data protection strategy, creates a powerful arsenal that goes beyond simply protecting data.” — Laura DuBois, program director, Storage Software, IDC Read More...
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...
