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About Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series (VSP 5000 series) represents the industry’s highest performing and most scalable storage solution. Built on 57 years of Hitachi engineering experience and innovation in the IT sector, VSP 5000 series offers superior performance, resiliency, and agility, featuring response times as low as 39 microseconds, and all backed up with the industry’s first and most comprehensive 100% data availability guarantee.

Key features

Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series storage systems reliably deliver more data faster than ever for open-systems and mainframe applications. These enterprise-level storage systems are available in configurations with up to 69 PB of raw capacity and with scalability to handle up to 33 million IOPS. The Hitachi Remote Ops monitoring system and Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer software enable superior uptime. To ensure that operations are always up and running, VSP 5000 series models can optionally be backed by a 100% data availability guarantee.

VSP 5000 series provides high performance, high availability, and reliability for enterprise-class data centers and features the industry's most comprehensive suite of local and remote data protection capabilities, including true active-active metro-clustering. When combined with server virtualization, storage virtualization supports applications at cloud scale while reducing complexity.

VSP 5000 series is the first storage in the industry to offer a mixed NVMe, SCM solid-state disk (SSD), serial-attached SCSI (SAS) SSD, and HDD environment that can not only scale up in capacity but also scale out for performance. VSP 5000 series models include the industry-leading VSP 5100 and VSP 5500 models and the newest VSP 5200 and VSP 5600 models.

New VSP 5200 and VSP 5600 models

The VSP 5200 and VSP 5600 models provide enhanced capacity efficiency with improved data reduction performance along with SCM tiering and full end-to-end NVMe.

  • Data reduction. Hardware-assisted data reduction technology offers up to a 40% performance improvement over existing VSP 5000 series models.
  • Performance. Improved performance of up to 33 million IOPS with latency as low as 39 µs accelerates application response and increases application consolidation, making these models the most powerful and most responsive storage arrays available.
  • Data-in-place migration. Nondisruptive data-in-place (DIP) migration is provided when upgrading from VSP 5100 to VSP 5600 or from VSP 5500 to VSP 5600.
Key features of VSP 5000 series
  • Agility and scalability

    VSP 5100 and VSP 5200 all-flash arrays (AFAs) are scale-up enterprise storage platforms with one pair of controller nodes supporting open and mainframe workloads. VSP 5500 and VSP 5600 AFAs start with a single node pair and can scale out to three node pairs. All of these models are also available as hybrid arrays (VSP 5100H, VSP 5200H, VSP 5500H, VSP 5600H) that support the following drive types:

    • NVMe SCM
    • NVMe SSD
    • SAS SSD
    • SAS FMD (available only when upgrading to VSP 5600)
    • SAS HDD
    NoteThe VSP 5100 and VSP 5200 models support either SAS or NVMe configurations, while VSP 5500 and VSP 5600 support mixed SAS and NVMe backend configurations.
  • 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 39 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.

  • Capacity efficiency

    The advanced adaptive data reduction (ADR) technologies of VSP 5000 series provide a guaranteed effective capacity of 4:1 to improve storage utilization and reduce storage footprint. Compression and also deduplication, if desired, can be enabled for all internal and external storage media at the volume level for enhanced tunability.

  • 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. The active-active controller architecture of VSP 5000 series 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.

  • Artificial-intelligence-based solutions

    All VSP 5000 series models come with Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer, which analyzes telemetry to optimize application performance and prevent extended outages. Manual administrative tasks are streamlined and implemented with fewer errors, facilitating the addition of new applications and the expansion of existing applications. In addition, Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer works with Hitachi Ops Center Automator to maintain best practices and quality of service (QoS).

  • Simple, easy-to-use management

    VSP 5000 series can be set up quickly and managed with ease using Hitachi Ops Center Administrator. Ops Center Administrator reduces the complexity of steps needed to deploy, monitor, and reconfigure storage resources. In addition, REST APIs allow integration with existing toolsets and automation templates to further consolidate management tasks.

    Hitachi Ops Center Suite delivers enhanced AIOps capabilities using AI/ML to provide real-time monitoring and to increase performance and tuning of your storage environment.

  • Protection from unauthorized access

    All VSP 5000 series models are hardened to prevent any leaks of physical data as well as unauthorized system access, enabling you to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access, meet stringent data privacy requirements, and adhere to strict regulatory compliance policies. Additional measures are available to ensure quick recovery from ransomware attacks.

Specifications at a glance

The following tables list the general specifications for VSP 5000 series.

Specifications for VSP 5100 and VSP 5200
Feature VSP 5100 VSP 5100HVSP 5200VSP 5200H
Performance (IOPS)Up to 4,200,000 IOPSUp to 5,100,000 IOPS
Maximum number of drives (including spares)33 NVMe SCM

96 NVMe

192 FMD

768 SFF SSD

33 NVMe SCM

96 NVMe

192 FMD

768 SFF SSD/HDD

384 LFF HDD

33 NVMe SCM

96 NVMe

768 SFF SSD

33 NVMe SCM

96 NVMe

768 SFF SSD/HDD

384 LFF HDD

Maximum raw internal capacity 23 PB (30TB SSD)
Maximum raw external capacity287 PB
Maximum cache capacity1 TiB
Host interfaces (ports on front-end modules)32 x FC-NVMe (32 Gbps)

32 x FC (16 Gbps, 32 Gbps)

32 x FICON® (16 Gbps)

16 x iSCSI (10 Gbps)

RAID levels RAID 1+0 (2D+2D, 4D+4D)

RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P)

RAID 6 (6D+2P, 14D+2P)

Specifications for VSP 5500 and VSP 5600
Feature VSP 5500VSP 5500HVSP 5600VSP 5600H
PerformanceUp to 21,000,000 IOPSUp to 33,000,000
Maximum number of drives (including spares) 99 NVMe SCM

288 NVMe

576 FMD

2,304 SFF SSD

99 NVMe SCM

288 NVMe

576 FMD

2,304 SFF SSD/HDD

1,152 LFF HDD

99 NVMe SCM

288 NVMe

576 FMD

2,304 SFF SSD

99 NVMe SCM

288 NVMe

576 FMD

2,304 SFF SSD/HDD

1,152 LFF HDD

Maximum raw internal capacity 69 PB (30TB SSD)
Maximum raw external capacity287 PB
Maximum cache capacity6 TiB (3x controller block)
Host interfaces (ports on front-end modules)192 x FC-NVMe (32 Gbps)

192 x FC (16 Gbps, 32 Gbps)

192 x FICON® (16 Gbps)

96 x iSCSI (10 Gbps)

RAID levels RAID 1+0 (2D+2D, 4D+4D)

RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P)

RAID 6 (6D+2P, 14D+2P)

Application solutions

Hitachi's portfolio of storage solutions for converged, cloud, storage, server, database, and other applications enables you to solve your application infrastructure challenges and achieve the highest application service levels. VMware® support

VSP 5000 series all-flash arrays are designed to complement vSphere virtualization to deliver the full benefits of software-defined data center infrastructure. Deep integration with VMware enables you to optimize performance, utilization, virtual machine (VM) provisioning, management, and data protection.

  • Hitachi Storage Provider for VMware vCenter (VASA)

    Use Hitachi Storage Provider for VMware vCenter to enable storage-aware tagging services for VMFS and to enable VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) for a software-defined, hardware-enabled Hitachi Storage infrastructure. Hitachi Storage Provider enables efficient provisioning and usage of storage and VMDK resources based on application-specific data services, such as snapshot, encryption, and replication.

  • Hitachi Infrastructure Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations (vROPS)

    Hitachi Infrastructure Management Pack for VMware vROPS integrates metrics and alerts from physical and virtual layers to help you manage the capacity and performance of Hitachi storage and converged infrastructure deployments in VMware environments. By providing dashboards, metrics, and correlated alerts, Hitachi vROPS significantly enables efficient resource utilization and proactive troubleshooting to reduce operational costs.

  • Hitachi Storage Connector for VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)

    Hitachi Storage Connector for VMware vRO enables you to automate and orchestrate workflow tasks on VSP 5000 series and other Hitachi storage, extending the capabilities of VMware vRO by providing access to over 130 foundational Hitachi storage-specific workflows.

  • Hitachi Infrastructure Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI)

    Hitachi Infrastructure Content Pack for VMware vRLI delivers real-time log analysis and advanced troubleshooting across physical and virtual infrastructures. It simplifies searching for errors by collecting and grouping information to show important, relevant, and useful events, and it provides a comprehensive view into Hitachi storage systems, enabling you to identify potential issues and keeping track of components that show departure from normal operations.

  • Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter

    Using Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter integrates management of VSP 5000 series and other Hitachi storage systems within the VMware vCenter console, enabling your VMware vCenter administrator to provision and manage datastores with essential configuration options from Hitachi storage systems.

  • Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager

    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) automates the disaster recovery and testing process using either host or storage-based replication. Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter is the software interface that integrates VSP 5000 series and other Hitachi storage systems and its replication software with VMware vCenter SRM processes. Used together, VMware vCenter SRM and Hitachi storage and software provide an automated and seamless disaster recovery solution within the VMware vCenter infrastructure.

  • Hitachi Ops Center Protector Adapter (Protector SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager

    The Hitachi Ops Center Protector software provides a higher level of automation for configuration of local and remote replication relationships between primary and secondary systems. The Protector SRA is compatible with Ops Center Protector replication-managed environments that manage all the pausing, swapping, and resuming of the associated replication pairs that vCenter SRM may require. The Protector SRA is deployed independently from Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM.

  • Hitachi Ops Center Protector Connector for VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)

    This connector enables admins to include Ops Center Protector storage hardware offload-based services such as VM-level backup, restore, and copy data management functionality in their vRO Workflows. Supported workflows include backup and restore of VMs, clone VMs from prior snapshots, and mount VMDKs from snapshots to any VM. These vRO operations can be performed from the vCenter UI via the packaged XML imported into vCenter.

  • VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration

    VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) allow VMware vSphere environments to use advanced features and capabilities of VSP 5000 series and other Hitachi VSP storage systems from within the VMware interface. Processing is performed directly on the storage infrastructure to move the I/O load from the VMware vCenter host platform onto the storage controller. Offloading storage-related operations to the storage system speeds up the datastore and VMDK provisioning operations and frees virtualization management for more critical tasks.

Microsoft Windows® support

Server virtualization integration with leading virtual server platforms gives you end-to-end visibility from an individual virtual machine to the storage logical unit and protects large-scale multivendor environments. Support for Microsoft Windows® (including Microsoft Hyper-V) and Microsoft System Center includes:

  • Microsoft Virtual ShadowCopy Service (VSS)
  • Microsoft Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
  • Hitachi Infrastructure Adapter for Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager
  • Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Storage Management Provider
  • Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Systems Center Orchestrator
Oracle® support

Hitachi Vantara has developed and supported IT solutions for many of the world’s largest companies with the most demanding Oracle® database environments, solutions that maximize business value, enhance progress toward greater business outcomes, and ensure performance from Oracle® systems.

  • Hitachi storage and server adapters for Oracle® databases provide integrated tools for converged infrastructure management and data protection. Hitachi Storage Adapters for Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle VM, Oracle Web Center, Oracle Automated Storage Reclamation Utility, and Oracle Database Cloning help you manage your database with less effort and better results. Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle Recovery Manager integrates multiple protection services to maximize database availability.
  • Hitachi drivers for Oracle® environments enhance consolidation, performance, and efficiency.
  • The Database Infrastructure Evaluation Tool (DIET), available to Oracle® database administrators at no cost, analyzes your entire Oracle® database environment, and provides best practices and expert recommendations on areas for improvement to ensure your storage, compute, and converged infrastructure operates at peak utilization.
  • Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning gives your Oracle® applications the right amount and right type of storage to maximize performance and efficiency.
  • Hitachi Dynamic Tiering offers finely tuned performance for Oracle®, automatically keeping the most crucial data on the fastest storage.