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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.

Key features
  • 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 the following drives:

    • SAS HDD
    • SAS SSD
    • SAS FMD
    • NVMe SSD
    • NVMe SCM
  • 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. NVMe storage class memory (SCM) drives provide significantly quicker access to data, up to 10 times faster than flash drives, and are more durable than flash drives.

  • 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.

Storage system specifications

The following table lists the technical specifications of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series storage system.

Item

Specification

System

2.5-inch SAS HDD/SSD

Maximum number of drives

2-node system: 768

4-node system: 1,536

6-node system: 2,304

3.5-inch SAS HDDs

Maximum number of drives

2-node system: 384

4-node system: 768

6-node system: 1,152

Number of FMDs

Maximum number of drives

2-node system: 192

4-node system: 384

6-node system: 576

Number of NVMe drives

Maximum number of SSDs

2-node system: 96

4-node system: 192

6-node system: 288

Maximum number of SCM drives

2-node system: 33

4-node system: 66

6-node system: 99

RAID group configuration

RAID 6

  • 6D+2P
  • 14D+2P
RAID 5

  • 3D+1P
  • 7D+1P
RAID 1 (RAID 1+0)

  • 2D+2D
  • 4D+4D

Maximum number of spare drives

2-node system: 64

4-node system: 128

6-node system: 192

Maximum number of volumes

65,280

Maximum storage system capacity (physical capacity) (30-TB 2.5-inch SAS SSDs)

2-node system: 23.1 PB (20.5 PiB)

4-node system: 46.2 PB (41 PiB

6-node system: 69.3 PB (61.5 PiB)

Maximum external configuration

255 PiB

Memory

Cache memory capacity

512 GiB to 6,144 GiB

Storage interface

Controller-drive box (DKC-DB) interface

SAS/Dual Port

NVMe/Dual Port

(SAS and NVMe cannot be intermixed within each node pair.)

Data transfer rate

SAS Interface

12 Gbps

NVMe (PCIe) Interface8 Gbps

Maximum number of back-end modules (BEMs) (also called disk boards, or DKBs

2-node system: 8

4-node system: 16

6-node system: 24

Device interface Channel typeOpen Systems

Fibre Channel Shortwave

Fibre Channel Longwave*

iSCSI (Optic)

Mainframe

Fibre Channel Shortwave

Fibre Channel Longwave *

Data trasfer rate

Fibre Channel

Open System : 4/8/16/32 Gbps

Mainframe : 4/8/16 Gbps

iSCSI (Optic)

10 Gbps

Maximum number of CHB

2-node system: 16

2-node system: 32

6-node system: 48

*Longwave is not supported on 32 Gbps Fibre Channel.