Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series overview
The Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series storage system is a high-performance, large-capacity data storage system. The storage system consists of a controller chassis, one or more drive chassis, and internal PCIe switches with copper or optical interfaces and is powered by a new multi-node architecture available in 2, 4, 8, and 12 controller systems.
The Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series is shipped to customers as factory-integrated storage systems installed in a Hitachi Universal rack, with all components mounted and cabled, and all software and software licenses installed by Hitachi Vantara representatives. All systems incorporate state-of-the-art virtualization, data-management, and fault-tolerant technologies.
Features
The Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series (VSP 5000 series) storage systems are high-performance, large-capacity, enterprise RAID storage systems that reliably deliver more data faster than ever for open-systems and mainframe applications. VSP 5000 series features all-flash and hybrid models that can scale up in capacity and also scale out for performance, allowing for massive consolidation of workloads for cost savings and providing unparalleled performance, efficiency, and reliability.
- Agility and scalability
There are four VSP 5000 series models: VSP 5100, VSP 5500, VSP 5100H, and VSP 5500H. The VSP 5100 all-flash array (AFA) is a scale-up enterprise storage platform with one pair of controller nodes supporting open and mainframe workloads. The VSP 5500 AFA starts with a single node pair and scales out to three node pairs to provide up to 69 PB of raw capacity and 21 million IOPS of performance. Both models are also available as hybrid arrays, VSP 5100H and VSP 5500H, that support a mixed environment of NVMe solid-state devices (SSDs) (VSP 5500 models only), serial-attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs, Hitachi flash module drives (FMDs), and SAS hard disk drives (HDDs).
- All-flash performance accelerated by NVMe technology
NVMe drives provide high throughput and low latency to achieve high response performance, enabling large volumes of data to be processed rapidly with response times as low as 70 microseconds.
- Reliability and resiliency
Leveraging hot-swappable components, nondisruptive maintenance and upgrades, and outstanding data protection, VSP 5000 series offers complete system redundancy and is backed by a 100% data availability guarantee. VSP 5000 series's active-active controller architecture protects against local faults and performance issues, and hardware redundancy eliminates all active single points of failure, no matter how unlikely, to provide the highest level of reliability and data availability.