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Take a No-Compromise Approach to All-Flash Storage By Bob Madaio, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems
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Unmatched Performance, Capacity and Availability: Can All-Flash Storage Do It All? We think all-flash storage should do it all, with unmatched performance, high capacity and resilience, and be capable of 100% availability and operational simplicity. Hitachi Data Systems has been innovating flash technology for many years. Now, with our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series all-flash systems, we’ve added still more flash-related technology to our advanced patented hardware and software. The result is a platform that offers all-flash capabilities without compromise. Before you commit to all-flash technology, weigh your options carefully.
How Long and How Well Will Your All-Flash Solution Serve You? Today, flash storage simply can’t be ignored. It offers competitive advantage for critical applications, right now, and is the wave of the future. To get to that future, you need a flash storage partner who invests heavily in flash R&D. You want that partner to provide the most cutting-edge products for the long term, so your infrastructure continues to support your IT team’s performance criteria as you grow. You may have any number of tactical reasons for looking at all-flash solutions today. All-flash storage generates more income with more transactions per second. It improves customer satisfaction with consistent service levels, and it stimulates better business decisions and increased employee productivity with analytics and detailed reporting. No matter your motivation, take a look at all-flash storage strategically: Consider it a way to drive current and future needs. But before you make the leap, be sure to look beyond the hype, because not every flash solution is created equal. Many all-flash solutions on the market today require a tradeoff. You may get the speed you need but lose reliability, scalability or operational simplicity. You may even get consistent performance for a compromise in workload consolidation. At Hitachi Data Systems, we don’t think you should have to make those kinds of tradeoffs. That’s why we developed Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) F series all-flash systems.
The All-Flash VSP F Series: Performance Without Compromise For all-flash storage to live up to expectations and grow with your business into the future, the flash system itself needs to be innovative. The VSP F series builds upon our extensive flash optimizations. It offers extremely low and consistent response times. It also delivers six times more bandwidth with fewer system resources than other vendors. This advantage lets you run more workloads at one time without bottlenecks. Our highly resilient VSP architecture allows us to confidently guarantee 100% continuous data availability on all VSP F series models. With the VSP F series, you get purpose-built hardware and software based on more than 350 flash-related patents. Our flash module drives (FMDs) have undergone a second generation of improvements for still more speed, capacity and economy. We’ve also made dozens of fundamental modifications to our flash-optimized Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) software. Why so much hardware and software investment? Because that’s what it takes to offer all-flash storage without compromise. Fast, Consistent Performance You’ve invested in flash to continually keep customers engaged and employees productive. The last thing you need is to discover
You don’t have to choose between sustained performance and capacity. The VSP F series gives you both.
that your all-flash system slows down dramatically when you subject it to extreme workload stress. We’ve designed our flash to start fast on day one and stay fast going forward. Our exclusive FMD DC2s achieve consistent sub-millisecond response times, even at scale. Our FMD DC2s have the processing power to manage background processing as workloads increase, unlike many solid-state disk (SSD)-based all-flash arrays. In fact, our unique FMD technology offers five times the write performance and three times the read performance of SSDs. This is unparalleled performance. With flash storage, high-performance design starts with high-performance data paths between flash devices and servers. The significant determinate of performance is the speed of interconnects and number of moves or copies of data in the path. SVOS is optimized to minimize these for flash. It doesn’t copy into a buffer or cache and then out again if the data can be copied directly
to flash. In the case of our unique cache bypass technology, SVOS avoids copying into the cache with flash reads and writes that use patented “express” I/O processing and caching algorithms. The VSP F series architecture manages increasing workloads, and the FMDs take care of background processes, so you don’t experience slowdowns. It provides the throughput to handle both large data transfers and many small, simultaneous workloads. And you don’t have to choose between sustained performance and capacity, because we’ve found a way to give you both. Our hardware-accelerated in-line compression increases capacity without a performance hit. It’s 10 times faster than competitive technologies, and it increases your effective capacity for a lower total cost of ownership. This high performance has made our customers very happy.
MEET THE VSP F SERIES The industry-leading Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family has an all-flash series with four models: VSP F400, VSP F600, VSP F800 and now VSP F1500. These systems combine all-flash storage and the simplicity of built-in automation software with the proven resiliency and performance of Hitachi VSP technology.
VSP F400
Up to 600,000 IOPS
