Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform Family: Virtualize

and Consolidate Storage
Management
Get the Ultimate in Enterprise Storage
Technology
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To maintain customer loyalty and

maximize revenue in the digital age, it’s
essential to ensure faster access to the
data that drives your business. However,
legacy IT infrastructures lack the speed
to serve your users and deliver the data
sets your teams need to analyze trends
or deploy new business models. While all-
flash and hybrid-flash solutions can help,
few can deliver digital transformation.
 Modernize Your Infrastructure for
Faster, Better Business Outcomes
The digital landscape is constantly evolving, and you’re under
increasing pressure to keep pace with the changes, stay relevant
and compete. To accelerate while others flounder, you must
transform your IT operations with a modern infrastructure that
delivers both enterprise reliability and operational simplicity. With the
right infrastructure, you gain the speed required to deliver data to a
mobile workforce and the efficiency to manage massive amounts of The new high-performance
information that power your enterprise. Virtual Storage Platform
F1500 and VSP G1500
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Family: Flash Speed, from Hitachi Vantara
Best-in-Class Efficiency, Scalability
raises the bar for high-end
All-flash arrays (AFAs) and hybrid-flash arrays (HFAs) deliver systems and offers the high
data faster to improve customer experiences. But few of these
performance and consistent
solutions deliver the advanced capabilities required to keep
customer experience the
operations working at maximum efficiency. Many of these flash
industry has come
solutions also lack the scalability to handle multiple workloads,
resulting in poor utilization and data center sprawl. Ultimately, to demand.
this translates into higher cost of ownership and lower customer
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satisfaction. With the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family, CTO
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Answers
Your Key Challenges
The Hitachi VSP family sets new standards for enterprise storage technology in midrange to high-end
systems. All-flash VSP F series systems and hybrid flash VSP G series systems give you more choice in
how you design your data center, while delivering industry-leading data management.
Flash Speed for More Workloads
VSP F series delivers up to four times greater
performance, including the industry’s lowest
response time.1 The hybrid VSP G series analyzes
data streams in real time and moves data from disk
to flash for rapid access.
Provides a foundation for a modern, all-flash
data center. VSP G series offers significant
benefits with a staged transition to all flash.
Integrate All Applications With Unified Storage
The VSP family provides support for both block and
file workloads, as well as SAN and NAS protocols,
and can be integrated with mainframe applications.
Allows you to serve a wide variety of applications
from a single high-performance array. Provides
mainframe users with unprecedented levels of
performance and efficiency.
High-End Enterprise Storage and Mainframe
Compatibility
VSP F1500 and VSP G1500 deliver IBM®-tested
and compatible mainframe support and scale-out
resiliency. For all-flash needs, VSP F1500 offers 4.8M
IOPS and up to 8PB of raw capacity. VSP family
systems also deliver global storage virtualization.
Improves performance of mission-critical
applications. VSP F1500 and G1500 are the
foundation for multi-data center resiliency.
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http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_top-ten
Best-in-Class Efficiency
Adaptive data reduction services, including
deduplication and compression, minimize the
storage footprint. Direct to cloud data migration
allows you to move data to a cloud service provider
or content repository. Linked, writable snapshot
clones create copies of data sets using near-zero
extra capacity.
Minimizing storage footprint provides 5:1
savings. Direct cloud functionality enables
predictable storage costs, and reduces
backup windows.
100% Data Availability Guaranteed
Leveraging hot-swappable components,
nondisruptive updates and outstanding data
protection, the VSP family offers complete system
redundancy and is backed by the industry’s only
100% data availability guarantee. VSP family’s data
protection software eliminates backup windows
and accelerates recovery via snapshots.
Built on legendary Hitachi reliability, the VSP
family is the best choice for all-flash and hybrid-
flash storage operations.
Simple, Powerful Management
The VSP family is designed to be set up quickly and
managed at a glance using Hitachi Storage Advisor
(HSA). Intended for IT generalists, HSA uses an
intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and saves
time with recommended configuration practices.
HSA reduces the time to complete provisioning
tasks and diagnostic operations and includes
standards-based APIs to centralize administrative
operations.
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 The No-Compromise Choice From the
Leader in Storage Design
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family provides the ultimate in enterprise storage technology. Based on
the industry-leading storage technology, the systems offer reliable, enterprise-grade capabilities at the price,
capacity and performance levels necessary to satisfy your unique requirements.

Run Applications at Flash Speed

Deploy powerful quality of service (QoS) software to
maximize efficiency and prevent latency spikes. SAN,
NAS and mainframe support enables consolidation
of workloads onto a single all-flash or hybrid platform
with flash performance of up to 4.8M IOPS.

Virtualized Storage Management and

Monitoring
Consolidate and simplify IT by virtualizing all storage
under a single view. More than 100 different all-
flash and hybrid storage models can be used for
extended capacity needs.

Enjoy Peace of Mind, Guaranteed Return

Improve business continuity with active-active
clustering via global-active device, meet tight
service level agreements (SLAs) and standardize
data protection. Deploy industry-standard XTS-
AES-256-bit encryption. Leverage the industry’s
only 100% data availability guarantee and benefit
from all-flash data reduction.

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Hitachi Leads the Way With Game-
Changing Flash Solutions
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family offers the ultimate in enterprise storage technology,
giving you more choices in how you design your data center, while delivering industry-leading data
management. Built on 20 years of experience, the VSP family of all-flash and hybrid systems provides
unparalleled performance, efficiency and reliability. Hitachi:

■■ Holds an industry-leading 4,000+ storage patents, including 350 flash patents.

■■ Guarantees 100% data availability and doubles the increase in flash capacity.

■■ Selected as champion vendor.2

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2017 InfoTech Vendor Landscape: Midrange Storage

To learn more about how the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

family can benefit your organization, contact your Hitachi
Vantara representative or visit the VSP F series webpage.

Hitachi Vantara at a Glance

Your data is the key to new revenue, better customer experiences and lower costs. With technology and expertise,
Hitachi Vantara drives data to meaningful outcomes.

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