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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 virtualization of internal and external heterogenous 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’s 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 architecture from Hitachi Data Systems, 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:
- Business continuity services
- Content management services (search, indexing)
- Non-disruptive data migration
- Volume management across heterogeneous storage arrays
- Thin provisioning
- Security services (immutability, logging, auditing, data shredding)
- Data de-duplication
- I/O load balancing
- Data classification
- File management services
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.
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
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