Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
Proven enterprise-class functionality in flexible, cost-effective service oriented configurations.
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ VM blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry level enterprises and fast growing mid-sized organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises.
Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in a way never possible before. The Universal Storage Platform VM, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers proven and innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning and universal replication for open systems and mainframe environments in a rack mounted storage services platform.
The industry's highest reliability and availability storage solution 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.
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
Load balancing to improve application performance
Non disruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems
Features
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
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
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
Rackless option available
Benefits
Increases business agility
Reduces business risk
Lowers total cost of ownership
Helps comply with regulatory compliance and corporate governance
Enables more eco-friendly data centers
Tech Specs
Controller
Basic platform packaging unit: 1 Control Frame and
1-4 optional Disk Chassis
Universal Star Network™ Crossbar Switch
Number of switches: 2
Aggregate bandwidth (GB/sec): 13.3
Aggregate IOPS: 1.2M
Cache Memory
Number of cache modules: 1-8
Module capacity: 4, 8 or 16GB
Maximum cache memory: 128GB
Control/Shared Memory
Number of control memory modules: 1-4
Module capacity: 4GB
Maximum control memory: 16GB
Front-end Directors (Connectivity
Number of Directors: 1-3
Fibre Channel host ports per Director: 8 or 16
Fibre Channel port performance: 4Gb/sec
Maximum Fibre Channel host ports: 48
Virtual host ports: 1,024 per physical port
Maximum IBM® FICON® host ports: 24
Maximum IBM ESCON® host ports: 24
Logical Devices (LUNs) — Maximum Supported
Open systems: 65,536
IBM z/OS®: 65,536
Disks
Type: Fibre Channel: 73, 146, 300 and 400GB
Type: SATA II: 750GB and 1TB
Number of disks per system (min/max): 0-240
Number spare disks per system (min/max): 1-16
Internal Raw Capacity
Minimum (73GB disks): 146.0GB
Maximum (1TB disks) : 236.3TB
Maximum Usable Capacity — RAID-5
Open systems (1TB disks): 193.0TB
z/OS-compatible 1TB disks): 182.4TB
Maximum Usable Capacity — RAID-6
Open systems (1TB disks): 165.5TB
z/OS-compatible (1TB disks): 155.9TB
Maximum Usable Capacity — RAID-1+
Open systems (1TB disks): 116.2TB
z/OS-compatible (1TB disks): 108.47TB
External Storage Support
Maximum internal and external capacity: 96PB
Virtual Storage Machines: 8 max
Back-end director: 1 max
Operating System Support
Mainframe: Fujitsu: MSP; IBM: z/OS, z/OS.e, z/VM®, zVSE™, TPF; Red Hat:
Linux for IBM S/390® and zSeries®; SUSE: Linux Enterprise Server for System z.
Open systems: HP: HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, Open VMS; IBM: AIX®; Microsoft®
Windows Server: 2000, 2003, 2008; Novell: NetWare; SUSE: Linux Enterprise
Server; Red Hat: Enterprise Linux AS; SGI: IRIX; Sun Microsystems: Solaris;
VMware: ESX Server.
Notes:
1. Mainframe support for SATA disks is estimated mid-2008.
2. Availability of 1TB SATA disks is estimated mid-2008.
3. Availability of 16GB cache memory is estimated mid-2008.