Virtual Storage Platform G1000: Available. Agile. Automated. OVERVIEW

The Challenge Today’s data center operations are labor intensive and often prevent IT teams from moving quickly enough to keep pace with changing needs of busi- ness. Typical data centers with infrastructure silos built around specific applications or technologies limit agility. Organizations are challenged to main- tain IT operating expenses, support a new breed of applications at cloud scale and navigate through in- frastructure complexities. They must manage fewer, if any, maintenance windows to perform required changes or technology refreshes. OVERVIEW

The Solution Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 provides the always- IT executives must enable an IT-accelerated business to win in tomorrow’s information- available, agile and automated foundation needed for a trusted centric world: one that exploits information Continuous Cloud Infrastructure. Powered with Hitachi global without being overwhelmed by data or held storage , its new capabilities unlock IT back by slow IT infrastructure. To meet these challenges, IT requires Continuous Cloud agility and enable the lowest storage TCO. Infrastructure solutions that deliver continuous operations, data center extensibility and auto- apart. Combined with remote data center ■■ Storage Provider for VMware (VASA). mated management. , this mirroring is an ideal solution ■■ vStorage API for Multipathing (VAMP). for critical applications that require zero Hitachi Virtual Storage ■■ vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP). recovery point and recovery time objectives. Platform G1000 ■■ Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter Active-Active VMware vSphere Metro Hitachi is delivering the industry’s best com- (SRA). Storage Cluster and ® bination of enterprise-ready software-defined ■■ Microsoft Windows® 2012 (including Hyper-V® stretched cluster site pro- storage, advanced global storage virtualiza- Microsoft Hyper-V) and System Center: tection3. When combined with VMware tion, and efficient, scalable, high-performance ■■ Microsoft Virtual ShadowCopy Service vSphere Metro Storage Cluster or a hardware. This combination enables contin- (VSS) enhances data protection. Microsoft stretched Hyper-V cluster, a uous operations, self-managing policy-driven virtual infrastructure is created. This infra- ■■ Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data management, and agile IT that today’s new structure ensures fault tolerance from both Transfer (ODX). breed of cloud applications demands. Hitachi planned and unplanned outage. ■■ Hitachi Infrastructure Adapter for Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (VSP G1000) Microsoft® System Center Operations with Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating Unified storage with enterprise scal- Manager. System (SVOS) is the next generation of ability allows administrators to centrally ® enterprise storage from Hitachi. VSP G1000 manage large pools of storage across all ■■ Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft redefines mission-critical storage virtualization virtualized internal and external storage Storage Management Provider. and resets expectations for the data center. pools, whether deployed for SAN, NAS or ■■ Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® . Hitachi Command Suite System Center Orchestrator. VSP G1000 Highlights (HCS) provides a common management Environmentally friendly platform allows Global storage virtualization enables framework with a unified dashboard for up to 1.9 times more drives per chassis, an always-on infrastructure with enter- view of block, file and object consumers. and lower power consumption, when com- prise-wide scalability that provides a Organizations using HCS have been able to pared to competitive systems to help further complete separation between host and reduce their operating expenses 20%-40% your green computing initiatives. storage. The scalability is independent of through consolidated management. Native integration with active archiving connectivity, location, storage system or Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage offers enables the offload of data from production vendor. Create new storage system and a patented data-center-class design and storage systems to an archive, to reduce data center extensibility. Provision and rack-optimized form factor that delivers capacity and backup requirements. manage virtual storage machines with more than 600TB per system. It supports a active-active capability1 for volumes up to sustained performance of 100,000 8K I/O Global Virtualization: Hitachi 100km apart in combination with remote per second, per device, with low and con- Storage Virtualization data center replication support. sistent response time. Operating System Customer-driven nondisruptive migra- Server virtualization integration with Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating tion1 capability enables movement, copy leading virtual server platforms gives you System software is the software foundation and migration of data between storage sys- end-to-end visibility from an individual for Hitachi global storage virtualization. tems, including 3rd-party storage systems, virtual machine to the storage logical SVOS provides software-defined storage without interrupting application access, and unit and protects large-scale multivendor management and global storage virtual- local and remote copy relationships. environments. ization by elevating unified management Integrated active mirroring2 enables volume across new virtual storage machines. Virtual ■■ VMware: extensibility between systems and across storage machines provide a virtual abstrac- ■■ sites through the provisioning and manage- Storage Manager for VMware vCenter. tion of physical storage system resources ment of active-active volumes up to 100km ■■ vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI). within a single system, or multiple systems that may be located up to 100km apart. 1Separately licensed feature available after initial release. Ask your HDS representative or partner for more information. Attached servers and systems see and 2Active mirroring is enabled by the Hitachi global active device feature, a separately licensed feature available after manage this abstraction as a single device. initial release. Ask your HDS representative or partner for more information. SVOS supports user-defined workflows 3Requires the Hitachi global active device feature. for nondisruptive data migration between 3

storage tiers and between virtualized phys- ical systems and across data centers. This Innovation is the engine of change, and mobility reduces the cost of management, information is its fuel. Innovate intelligently improves performance and enables seam- to lead your market, grow your company, less fault-tolerant availability of the virtual and change the world. Manage your www.HDS.com/innovate storage machine. information with Hitachi Data Systems. Unified Management: Hitachi Command Suite data availability warranty. Nondisruptive while maintaining high performance. Hitachi Command Suite, an integrated soft- microcode upgrades are completed without Automatic deduplication process throttling ware management suite, provides advanced affecting application quality of service. enables uncompromised performance data and storage management that stream- during high file sharing workload periods. lines and centralizes all administrative Extreme, proven scalability outperforms operations under a common management other enterprise-class systems. Powered Unlimited file clones enable writable snap- framework. HCS covers all key functional by 896GB/sec aggregate internal band- shots while efficiently using capacity. management areas, such as configuration, width 7th-generation Hi-Star crossbar Hitachi Accelerated Flash features inno- performance, analytics mobility and rep- switch-based architecture, the block vative Hitachi-developed embedded flash lication to simplify all management tasks storage controllers deliver far in excess of memory technology for 4x per-device per- while facilitating future automation. HCS 3,000,000 transactions per second. The formance and reduced cost per gigabyte. improves administration, operations, provi- system supports up to 8 virtual storage The Hitachi multicore embedded flash sioning, performance and resilience for all director pairs for large database processing controller is purpose-built for enterprise Hitachi storage environments. By enabling and the highest virtual machine density. workloads and extended endurance. Native efficient management practices for virtual- Hitachi NAS Platform hardware- SVOS optimization eliminates noisy neigh- ized storage and servers, organizations can accelerated network protocols support bor application issues. It enables more effectively manage their IT infrastructure up to 2GB/sec throughput for sequential than 99.9% of transactions to be executed with limited staff resources while building workloads and up to 1.2 million NFS opera- within sub-millisecond response with flash. a sustainable foundation for future growth. tions per second. With new levels of usability, workflow, scal- Latest 2.5 in. and 3.5 in. 6Gb/sec SAS ability and integration, HCS combined with Create up to 8-node Hitachi NAS drives allow lower power consumption and the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family Platform clusters supporting up to 16PB higher density per rack with up to 2,304 (VSP and VSP G1000) provides break- usable capacity, 256TB file system pools, drives in six 19 in. standard racks. through efficiencies. Together, they enable large single namespace up to maximum Enterprise-level thin provisioning sup- IT organizations to fully leverage leading capacity, and up to 60,000 concurrent ports 128 pools with capacity of up to 5TB Hitachi global storage virtualization. users. Gain the highest usable capacity each, reducing storage management. With available in the least rack space. VSP G1000 Exclusive capacity overprovisioning, online volume Capabilities Efficient cachingmakes up to 2TB global growth, automated wide-stripping and pool cache dynamically accessible by all connected (re)balancing, it simplifies capacity planning External SAN storage virtualization hosts and Hitachi NAS Platform nodes. and increases application performance in a extends the useful life of existing assets smaller footprint. by allowing legacy devices to transpar- Unmatched multiplatform connectivity ently inherit new functionality from VSP allows up to 192 Fibre Channel 8Gb/sec or Dynamic tiering within a single standalone 4 G1000 and SVOS. This capability signifi- 96 Fibre Channel 16Gb/sec host ports. Or, system or across an entire heterogeneous ® ® cantly reduces migration pains, costs and it allows 176 IBM FICON 8Gb/sec host storage pool enables intelligent file tiering risk when moving from legacy Hitachi or ports or 176 Fibre Channel over Ethernet combined with automated migration. Its 5 3rd-party devices. Supports dynamic tiering (FCoE) host ports and 4 x 10Gb Ethernet pools place the right data in the right place of storage capacity (internal and/or external per file module. at the right time with no performance deg- radation. Standard, custom policies and capacity) and nondisruptive data migration Virtual SAN ports (host groups) manage- profiles control the automated behavior and between tiers and between vendors. ment supports expanded connectivity and enable dynamic policy-based hierarchical enables multiple concurrent host connectiv- Fully redundant architecture ensures storage management. no single point of failure and support for ity modes per physical port. Flexibility of placement in data center online hardware upgrades, hot preventive Hitachi NAS Platform nodes provide allows primary controller chassis (and con- maintenance and proactive drive sparing. primary data deduplication using hard- nected drive chassis) to be installed up to Designed for use in environments demand- ware-based SHA-256 calculation engines. 100 meters apart from secondary controller ing 100% uptime, the system has a 100% They enable up to 90% capacity savings

4Support for Fibre Channel 16Gb/sec host ports is available after initial release. Contact your HDS representative or HDS reseller partner for details regarding availability. 5Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host ports is available after initial release. Contact your HDS representative or HDS reseller partner for details regarding availability. chassis. This capability makes optimal use ADVANCED BLOCK AND HITACHI NAS PLATFORM UPGRADE OPTIONS of data center space. Hitachi Unified Storage Up to 8 high-performance Hitachi NAS Platform modules Business Benefits consolidate all file systems under a single namespace. Scale LUNs to 128TB and file systems pools to 256TB. Enterprise-Class Software-Defined Storage Foundation Hitachi Base Operating File software packages include CIFS and NFS protocols, System F high-availability cluster, quick snapshot restore, file system Always-on operations: Deliver the zero rollback, virtual server, storage pool and file system audit. recovery point and time objectives a new Hitachi Command Suite Use of automatic and proactive tiering, data mobility and breed of cloud applications demands. Data Mobility alignment with business applications helps lower costs and Remove maintenance windows for max- improve return on investment for maximum efficiency. imum productivity. Its customer-driven nondisruptive migration1 and multi-data- Hitachi Command Suite Establishes service level objectives by business application, center solutions ensure that data access Analytics performance monitoring and troubleshooting; reports for and local and remote copy processing are showback and chargeback accounting. maintained while required changes or tech- Hitachi Local Supports in-system and remote replication, snapshots, nology refreshes are performed. Replication, Remote backups and application-consistent restores; reduces risk; Replication and Protect provides the foundation for business continuity; and ensures Simplified operations: Hitachi Command Software high availability. Suite increases IT team productivity with policy-driven, automated and unified manage- ment capabilities. These abilities range from ■■ Infrastructure Audit Service from Hitachi Why Invest in Hitachi Storage? virtual storage machine creation, provisioning, Data Systems. For more than 25 years, Hitachi Data migration and optimization to reporting. ■■ Storage Design and Implementation Systems has led the field in enterprise Heterogeneous workload consolida- Service. storage systems. Advanced design, a rep- tion: Increase virtual machine density with ■■ Hitachi Basic Operating System utation for reliability, and flexibility ensures advanced multitenancy capabilities and Implementation Service. that Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 quality of service management. Scale out to ■■ Hitachi Dynamic Tiering Service. extends the legacy of the renowned Hitachi VSP family. The ease of management multivendor physical controllers to extend ■■ Hitachi Data Protection Consulting Service. resource pooling capabilities. and efficiencies of having all types of data ■■ Hitachi Local Data Protection Design and managed by a single system should not be Implementation Service. Hitachi Data Systems Global underestimated. VSP G1000 offers superb Solution Services ■■ Hitachi Remote Data Protection Design value to the data center. and Implementation Service. Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution ■■ For More Information Services (GSS) delivers solutions that Hitachi Business Continuity Custom enable your IT staff to unlock their produc- Service. For more information on how to unify tivity to compete in the global economy. To ■■ Hitachi Command Suite Implementation your storage without compromise using help you focus on your core business, GSS Service. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, visit offers a flexible range of out-tasking ser- ■■ Hitachi Migration Planning Service. www.HDS.com. vices. Our managed service solutions range ■■ Hitachi Migration Services. from operational services for your VSP ■■ Data Migration Service for Hitachi NAS G1000 environment to transforming your IT Platform Solutions. environment into a service-defined IT orga- nization. Our offerings include:

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