The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software transforms the data center, making IT more agile:

• 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types
• Storage architecture to flexibly adapt data storage infrastructures for performance, capacity and multivendor storage to optimize return on storage assets
• Data mobility to reduce business impact when adapting to change
• Highly efficient design for the performance and capacity combined with lowest power and cooling requirements
• Dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers for block, file and content data

3D scaling delivers a storage environment that is more reliable, dynamic and open.

• Reliable with leading data protection and high availability capabilities
• Dynamic, automating data placement and addition of resources
• More open, supporting a wide variety of operating systems, data types, storage and server environments

Features

Scale Up

• Twice the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform^® V, 192 GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
• Up to 255PB of total storage capacity under management, including internal storage up to 2,048 SAS 2.5" drives (1.2PB of storage) or 1,280 SATA 3.5" drives (2.5PB)
• Up to 256 flash drives supported for exceptional performance
• Unmatched multiplatform connectivity: up to 192 Fibre Channel 8 Gbits host ports, 192 IBM^® FICON^® 8 Gbits host ports, 96 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host 10 Gbits port and network-attached storage (NAS)

Scale Out

• Up to 8 virtual storage directors and 1TB single image global cache
• Powered by the fifth-generation Hitachi Hierarchical Star Network^™ crossbar switch architecture which joins multiple control chassis under one logical system

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