Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series is the most

powerful NVMe data platform in the world. It allows you

to focus on your DataOps Advantage by having the right
data in the right place at the right time.

D ATA S HE E T

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series Enterprise Storage

Consolidate and Accelerate Take advantage of the advanced capabilities offload I/O traffic between blocks. It uses
in the VSP 5000 series in all of your existing an architecture that provides immediate
Your Advantage With Agile data center storage assets through virtual- processing power without wait time or
NVMe Flash ization, which Hitachi pioneered. Storage interruption to maximize I/O throughput.
virtualization gives you a single management As a result, your applications suffer no
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
control point for multiple storage systems, latency increases since access to data is
5000 series is the culmination of over half
which increases administrative efficiencies. accelerated between nodes even when
a century of innovation in the IT sector. No
All data services, such as data reduction, you scale your system out.
other vendor is as committed as Hitachi to
automation and metroclustering, which
helping you and your customers. Enterprise Resiliency
are available with the VSP 5000 series,
Artificial intelligence (AI) based applications are extended to virtualized systems to give You can place your business data within
looking at real-time data telemetry: This is them more value and an extended life cycle. our solutions, relying on 57 years of Hitachi
what your business will be moving towards engineering experience to deliver reliabil-
in the next few years. To improve your pro- Enterprise Agility ity. The VSP 5000 series builds on that
ductivity, manage risk and drive down costs There are four models in the VSP 5000 experience, offering a superior range of
applications and infrastructure, you need to series: The all-flash VSP 5100 is a continuity options, all backed up with the
use AI with machine learning (ML). scale-up enterprise storage platform with industry’s first and most comprehensive
a dual-controller block supporting open 100% data availability guarantee. Migrate
To accelerate their businesses, 40% of
and mainframe workloads. You then have data from older systems nondisruptively so
your rivals will be investing in predictive
a nondisruptive upgrade path to the all- operations can continue, nonstop.
analytics. This, along with the collection
flash VSP 5500, which starts with a single
of IoT data streams, generates huge The new scale-out architecture protects
quad controller block and scales out to
volumes of data. Such volumes must be against local faults and performance
three blocks as you grow. Both models
processed rapidly and drive the need for issues with our active-active controller
are also available in hybrid array models:
all-flash performance that is accelerated architecture. With global-active device we
VSP 5100H and VSP 5500H.
by nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) enable full metroclustering between data
technology. Colder datasets can be The VSP 5000 series starts as small as centers that can be up to 500km apart.
automatically tiered to the cost-effective 3.8TB and scales up to 69PB of raw Replicate to a third data center using
capacity of hard disk drives (HDD) or capacity and 21 million IOPS of per-
migrated to the cloud. formance, which allows for massive
consolidation of workloads for cost sav- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000
VSP 5000 series future-proofs your organi- series systems lower costs by tailoring
ings. And with response times as low as
zation. It is the first storage in the industry to payments to your return on invest-
70 microseconds, your business partners
offer a mixed NVMe solid-state disk (SSD), ment (ROI) and budget. Our flexible
will be delighted by how fast their applica-
serial-attached SCSI (SAS) SSD and HDD offerings enable you to utilize pay-as-
tions run.
environment that can scale up in capacity you-grow and storage-as-a-service
but also scale out for performance. This Our patented Hitachi Accelerated Fabric (SaaS) options, where all upgrades are
approach gives you the composable data allows Hitachi Storage Virtualization included within the contract.
platform for all your workloads. Operating System RF (SVOS RF) to
Hitachi Universal Replicator software, which TABLE 1. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM 5000 SERIES SPECIFICATIONS
offers bidirectional replication, to make use of
VSP 5100 VSP 5100H VSP 5500 VSP 5500H
all your investments. Your system can be mon-
itored in the cloud via Hitachi Remote Ops to Performance Up to 4,200,000 Up to 4,200,000 Up to 21,000,000 Up to 21,000,000
IOPS IOPS IOPS IOPS
proactively predict and prevent downtime.
Max. Drives 33 NVMe SCM 33 NVMe SCM 33 NVMe SCM 33 NVMe SCM
96 NVMe 96 NVMe 288 NVMe 288 NVMe
With the VSP 5000 series, you gain rock- 192 FMD 192 FMD 576 FMD 576 FMD
steady hardware, but what about your 768 SFF SSD 768 SFF SSD/HDD 2,304 SFF SSD 2304 SFF SSD/HDD
384 LFF HDD 1,152 LFF HDD
application’s continuity and recovery? This
series is supported by Hitachi Data Instance Max. Raw 23PB 23PB 69PB 69PB
Capacity
Director, which provides application-aware
snapshots, copy data management and Drive Packs 375GB NVMe SCM 375GB NVMe SCM 375GB NVMe SCM 375GB NVMe SCM
30TB NVMe SSD 30TB NVMe SSD 30TB NVMe SSD 30TB NVMe SSD
instant recovery. You can recover from a (sold in packs 15TB NVMe SSD 15TB NVMe SSD 15TB NVMe SSD 15TB NVMe SSD
data disaster in seconds, not hours! of 4) 7.6TB NVMe SSD 7.6TB NVMe SSD 7.6TB NVMe SSD 7.6TB NVMe SSD
3.8TB NVMe SSD 3.8TB NVMe SSD 3.8TB NVMe SSD 3.8TB NVMe SSD
1.9TB NVMe SSD 1.9TB NVMe SSD 1.9TB NVMe SSD 1.9TB NVMe SSD
Security compliance is essential, and in the
VSP 5000 series Hitachi has taken steps to 14TB SAS FMD 14TB SAS FMD 14TB SAS FMD 14TB SAS FMD
7TB SAS FMD 7TB SAS FMD 7TB SAS FMD 7TB SAS FMD
improve the security of how data is stored
and administrated. We have greatly reduced 30TB SAS SSD 30TB SAS SSD 30TB SAS SSD 30TB SAS SSD
15TB SAS SSD 15TB SAS SSD 15TB SAS SSD 15TB SAS SSD
the risk of data falling into unauthorized pos- 7.6TB SAS SSD 7.6TB SAS SSD 7.6TB SAS SSD 7.6TB SAS SSD
session with FIPS 140-2 encryption on our 3.8TB SAS SSD 3.8TB SAS SSD 3.8TB SAS SSD 3.8TB SAS SSD
960GB SAS SSD 960GB SAS SSD 960GB SAS SSD 960GB SAS SSD
media. The erasure services align with NIST
SP 800-88r2 and ISO/IEC 27040:2014. 2.4TB 10K SAS 2.4TB 10K SAS
HDD HDD
Finally, we have hardened system access to 14TB 7.2K SAS 14TB 7.2K SAS
safeguard against illegal access and hacking: HDD HDD
The VSP 5000 series uses TLS1.3 for secure Host FC: 32x32Gb/s FC: 32x 32Gb/s FC: 192x32Gb/s FC: 192x32Gb/s
FC: 32x16Gb/s FC: 32x 16Gb/s FC: 192x16Gb/s FC: 192x16Gb/s
communications to stop improper access by Interfaces IBM FICON: 32x IBM FICON: 32x IBM FICON: IBM FICON:
other systems on the fabric. Note: FC = 16Gb/s 16Gb/s 192x16Gb/s 192x16Gb/s
Fibre Channel, iSCSI: 16x10Gb/s iSCSI: 16x10Gb/s iSCSI: 96x10Gb/s iSCSI: 96x10Gb/s
Management Automation FICON = IBM®
FICON®
Simplifying the management, provisioning
and performance of data platforms can Max. Cache 1TiB 1TiB 6TiB 6TiB

become a demanding never-ending cycle. RAID* Support for RAID-1*, RAID-5, RAID-6
This is the potential of AI operations, where * RAID-1 selection mirrors blocks across two drives and then creates a striped set across multiple drive pairs. This is com-
monly referred to as RAID 1+0.
the VSP 5000 series can take control of
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes; 1TiB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
repetitive tasks to reduce and even elimi- SAS = serial attached SCSI, NVMe = non-volatile memory express, SSD = solid state drive, FMD = flash module, FC = Fibre
Channel, iSCSI = internet small computer systems interface.
nate the need for any human intervention.
Your staff is freed to focus on innovation the operational efficiency. AI can also be configuration, provisioning and common
and tactical business efforts. used to simplify complex decision-making, management tasks instead of humans.
such as predicting when additional storage Automation is often leveraged at the start of
AI is used to constantly monitor the envi- might be needed or how quality of service a deployment to ensure resources are set
ronment and make sure that resources are (QoS) should be configured. up based on best practices and no steps
performing, based on service level agree- are missed that could result in data loss. It
ments (SLAs). If issues are noted, the AI can Automation is a critical aspect of AI oper-
can also be used in concert with AI to auto-
predict and prescribe changes to improve ations. Automation software handles
mate infrastructure updates.

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