VSP 5000 Series

Update for 2023

VSP 5200/5600-2N/5600-4N Kevin Koplar
Technical Specialist – Core Storage
5600-6N February 2023

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Agility
Support today’s and tomorrow’s
business needs with a digital
infrastructure that can be upgraded and
scaled to meet the needs of any data-
driven workload.

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The Current Virtual Storage Platform Family

Enterprise class storage solutions The most powerful enterprise scale-

that won't break the bank out, future-proof data platform

High Performance Industry leading performance

NVMe & SAS Capacity Scale up and scale out
Simple Self Install Data in place upgrades

Common Management Common Operating System

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Enterprise Class Storage for Everyone

Common Operating System

Common Ops Center Software Portfolio

Flexible high
Entry Enterprise Scale-out
Entry NVMe High-density performance
Entry point to VSP Open & Mainframe Enterprise
System performance High port count
Price sensitive Hardware offload Open & Mainframe
SAS capacity SAS capacity Hardware offload
SAS media Scale-up Hardware offload
expansion expansion SAS or NVMe
SAS or NVMe SAS &/or NVMe
media

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Powered by the Most Advanced Software

Resilient Metro App-Aware Multisite Predictive

Scale-Out Clustering Recovery Continuity Support

Intelligent IO Flash AI-Enabled Adaptive

QoS Offload IO Pathing Tiering Reduction

Encrypted Agile Key Advanced Hardened

Retention Management Data Erasure Access
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VxWorks OS

Mars Pathfinder Boeing 787

SpaceX Dragon

BMW iDrive ABB Industrial Robots MRI and CT Medical Screening

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Legendary Hitachi Resilience

30 Years Of
Industry Leading Reliability
§ Industry’s first, best and most trusted 100%
Data Availability Guarantee
AVAILABILITY GLOBAL-ACTIVE
§ Hitachi remote support ops brings 30 years DEVICE
of knowledge to predict and prevent
downtime
§ Enterprise class: Industry benchmark for
active-active metro clustering and trusted
CLOUD SUPPORT 3 DATA CENTER
business continuity
§ Restart operation faster: Application-aware
recovery and copy data management to
prevent data loss
100% Data Availability Guarantee

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Key Partnerships and Alliances

§ AWS Premier Consulting Partner

§ Microsoft Global Managed Partner
§ Google Premier Partner
§ Veeam Storage Partner
§ Splunk Reference architecture
§ Veritas Partner of the Year
§ Commvault top OEM Partner
§ VMware Big Bet Partner
§ Cisco Industry Solutions Partner
§ WekaIO OEM Partner of the Year
§ Oracle Platinum Global Partner
§ SAP Platinum Partner, Gold Value Added

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Next Generation Applications

§ VSP E Series and VSP 5000 Series have Anthos

certification for Google Hybrid cloud infrastructure.

§ Hitachi Storage Plug-in for Containers integrates VSP

arrays with container-based applications for stateful
storage. It integrates with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform to provide persistent storage for stateful
container applications.

§ Hitachi Replication Plug-in for Containers is a container

“operator” that enables you to drive advanced data
services and replication.
Hitachi Storage Plug-in for
Containers

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VSP 5200 and 5600 Models
The most powerful enterprise scale-out, future-proof data platform

Best-in-industry for Application Consolidation

New Compression Accelerator Module improves data reduction performance

Industry First Enterprise Upgrade Assurance

Guaranteed non-disruptive data in place upgrade to Next Generation Storage

Best-in-industry for Application Performance

Assign more application resources with 57% improved performance

Best-in-industry for Application Responsiveness

Improve application response with 44% lower latency

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VSP 5000 Series is a
Scaleable Enterprise Architecture

Ø Upgrades to Larger Models are Non-Disruptive

5600-6N
to a Running Environment 12 Controllers
5600-4N
8 Controllers Controller Controller Controller

5600-2N Controller Controller Controller

4 Controllers Controller Controller

5200 Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller

2 Controllers Controller
Controller Controller Controller
Controller Controller Controller
Controller
Controller Controller Upgrade
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Controller Upgrade
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Ø VSP 5600 provides eight 9’s of Availability
Controller Upgrade
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VSP 5000 Series unique Accelerated Cache I/O
delivers lowest latency at outstanding redundancy
ISW ISW Quad ISW ISW
SVOS 9.x X-Paths Hitachi
Storage High Interconnect
Redundancy
Virtualization Edge
Operating HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH FABRIC (HIE)
System
Cache I/O
Acceleration

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Controller
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2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Primary Storage

2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Primary Storage

Primary storage systems deployed as arrays or software-defined storage
solutions are crucial to mission- and business-critical workloads.

Hitachi VSP 5000 Series is ranked:

•1st in Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
•1st for Server Virtualization and VDI
•1st for Application Consolidation
•2nd for Containers
•2nd for Cloud IT Operations (Cloud ITOps) Use Cases

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“HERO” Performance Measurements

LOWEST LATENCY PEAK IOPS

VSP VSP 5600-2N TEST CONFIG

VSP VSP VSP 5600-6N TEST CONFIG VSP
5500 8K RANDOM READ CACHE HIT 5600 5500-6N 8K RANDOM READ CACHE HIT 5600-6N
32 Gb FABRIC + 32 Gb CHBs 16 Gb FABRIC CONNECTIVTY

70µ 100% STRAIGHT LUN MAPPING 100% STRAIGHT LUN MAPPING 33M
NVME OVER FC SCSI OVER FC
64 NVME PORTS + 64 DPVOLS 192 FC PORTS + 2,304 DPVOLS @
24 HOSTS + 96 2-PORT HBAs
8 HOSTS + 32 DUAL-PORT HBAs
IO RATE 700 KIOPS
0.69ms
21M
-44% @ +57%
39µ 2.66ms

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5600-6N, RAID-6 best in class Peak IOPS

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Hitachi Technological Differentiators
5600 Series

100% data availability guaranteed for enterprise uptime

Cache directory allows latency-sensitive applications to stay up by avoiding write through mode

Best-in-industry virtualization for IT agility

Consolidate application resources with up to 69PB of capacity and 33M IOPS (Hero #’s)

Storage Virtualization Operating System and global cache

Accessed by all controllers over Hitachi Accelerated Fabric via hardware-assisted DMA

Hitachi Global Active Device

Synchronous, active-active fault tolerance up to 500KM with continued development over 7 years

Hitachi Ops Center AIOps includes analytics and automation

Better control costs, reduce management overheads, hit performance SLAs and improve uptime

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Document “Golden Nugget”

• Hardware Architecture Guide

• https://community.hitachivantara.com/blogs/sudipta-kumar-
mohapatra/2022/04/11/introduction-to-vsp-5200-and-5600-architecture?hlmlt=BL

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Scale Out With VSP 5000 Series

Scale up and out further Support more workload types Design to your best practices
Scale up to 23PB of SAS flash and out Run open system AND mainframe Single system does it all supporting
to 69PB of SAS flash to serve the workloads on a single, consolidated flash and/or HDD to save money and
hungriest workloads better than all system unlike others that have limited avoid complexity of NVMe silos
competitors. workload range.

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VSP 5000 DKU drive placement maximizes
availability and performance

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PG #3: 7D+1P
PG #1: (7D+1P) x 2
PG #1: (7D+1P) x 2
PG #4: 2D+2D
PG #3: 7D+1P
PG #1: (7D+1P) x 2
Single Logical Tray Failure Protection

PG #1: (7D+1P) x 2
PG #5: 3D+1P
PG #2: 6D+2P
PG #0: 14D+2P
PG #0: 14D+2P
Specific RAID Layout:

PG #2: 6D+2P
PG #0: 14D+2P
PG #0: 14D+2P

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VSP 5000 Specialized Backend placement
algorithms Maximize performance for Flash DMA

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VSP 5000 Pool design capability is highly flexible
(design for Performance or Capacity Savings)

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Modern Storage
Assurance.

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 Overview

WHAT
Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance is
a market competitive investment
protection and platform
lifecycle extension program allowing
customers to secure future upgrade
paths onto newer generation
controllers/platforms.

WHY HOW
Many customers seek to maximize Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance is our
their storage investments by successor controller upgrade program
extending their storage platform designed to extend the lifecycle of a
usage as long as possible. storage investment by modernizing and
They try to avoid the hassles of upgrading the controller without a
seeking additional funding for costly forklift upgrade or downtime.
system upgrades in the future.
Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance is
a data-in-place upgrade, protecting
customer data and media investment.
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 An Introduction to Modern Storage Assurance

Next Gen
VSP E1090

VSP 5600
Gives you the flexibility to stay
VSP 5500
modern and agile for new VSP
5200 and 5600 and VSP E
Series models

Non-disruptively take
advantage of increased
performance and new features

THE ONLY VENDOR TO SUPPORT HIGH-END & MAINFRAME

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Non-Disruptive
Eliminate complicated data
migration and forklift upgrades with
data-in-place migration

All Inclusive
Get the ability to upgrade within 1-5
years

Stay Modern
Accelerate applications with the
next generation storage architecture

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Enterprise Assurance
No single point of
failure during
upgrade
Upgrade after 12 No Renewal
months Requirement

Eliminate workload Support for all-

migration flash and
hybrid

Available on
Supporting Open Standard Warrantee
and Mainframe

100% Non-
Disruptive Upgrade

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DIP Upgrade Process

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Total Cost of Ownership

Modern Storage Assurance delivers

30% TCO saving over 10-years

§ Based on $-per-TB Price erosion over time

§ Remove cost of migration
§ Eliminate future infrastructure uncertainty

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Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR)

So simple and Effective to use

Don’t over think it…

Flexibility is our Superpower

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VSP 5200 / 5600 Parts
Several part improvements / differences:
• Improved controller with Intel Cascade Lake CPU instead of Broadwell
• Improved higher power & more efficient Platinum rated power supply
• Newer battery & Cache Flash Module (CFM)
• Completely New Compression Accelerator Module (ACLF)
• Provides most of the performance increase

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VSP 5200 / 5600 Compression Accelerator Module
• Repurposed FMD compression ASIC (NFA) but better comp. algorithm
• 2 NFA’s per module

Impact Connector

Fan Connector
Compression
Fan
Module

• Repurposed battery space

• 2 per controller
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Compression Accelerator Module I/O Flow

• The addition of the hardware accelerator is seamless to operation of ADR

• It is essentially a plugin to the current ADR architecture.

Write data flow

Host

LDEV Hardware Comp

1.Receive write data Accelerator

2. Reply to host
cache cache(Log-structure Area)

Software Compression Module

Drive
5. Destaged to log
3.Read logical-
structured area on disk
physical
Address map
6. Update address Map
Metadata area → Memory compression algorithm(①software,②Accelerator (LZ BasedV1)

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Compression algorithms
# Model Spec Compression Compression
rate(8KB) Ratio
Algorithm Comp N:1 Ratio
1 VSP 5000 Series/VSP E Series
LZ4 56% 1.8:1
Software based
2 VSP 5200/5600 Series Upgrade LZ-based V1 45% 2.2:1

Compression VSP 5000 Series/ VSP 5200/5600 Series

algorithms Upgrade
LZ4 ✓ software ✓ software
LZ-based V1 ― ✓ (ASIC)

✓ : Supported ―: Not Supported

Compression Accelerator Module increases compression efficiency

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ADR Compression Accelerator

• It is highly improving both throughput performance and response time in actual

workload of mixture sequential/random write. Also, compression saving efficiency is
improved.
• ADR Compression Accelerator can be used Encryption hardware (eDKB) together.
Improve ADR performance using Accelerator Specification

ü The compression accelerator is offloaded compression

and decompression processes.
ü The eDKB encryption can be used with the compression
accelerator.
ü Compression algorithm is changed Enhanced Lenpha Zip
to improve saving efficiency.
ü Dedupe process is performed by MPU/SVOS.

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Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR)
ADR Best Practice-USE IT!

Mode 1191 set to ON

Quote 2:1 NQA as standard

practice
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 2:1 No Questions Asked Selling Model

All VSP E
2:1 deals
Always quote series and
have a “no Remediation
2:1 data VSP
signature will be
reduction 5200/5600
required” expected
ratio are
warranty
supported

1:1 quotes will A few countries ~10% of the

VSP E590 and
have to be still require deals may
E790 added
approved signature require some
January 4
remediation

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Why Do You Care ?

01 02 03

Takes risk away from Customer Satisfaction Enhance Margin

customer • Customer interaction with • Focus on effective
• Customer does not Global Support is minimal. capacity rather than
have to worry about • Remediation process is usable capacity.
shortage of storage simpler. • Cloud like selling,
incase the data focused on customer
reduction is not met. benefit instead of
Hitachi Vantara will hardware cost.
remediate.

Risk Reduction : Customer gets the benefits of effective capacity without the risk.

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Self Driving AIOps Enabled
Infrastructure.

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The Shift to Self-Driving , AI-enabled Operations

Management Manual
Sprawl Processes

Traditional Resource
Data Center Delivery

IT
Staff

Incident
Workload Resolution
Repatriation

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Software should NOT be OPTIONAL Why?
It Assists in Strategic Control of your Hardware Solution

Modern Data Ops Center Protector

Protection Enterprise Copy Data Management
Integrated Self-Driving Management
Hitachi Ops Center Suite

Cloud-based Ops Center Clear Sight Powered by Hitachi Remote Ops

AIOps Cloud-based storage monitoring across VSP’s

On Premises Ops Center Analyzer & Automator

AIOps Real-time, telemetry monitoring with automated remediation

VSP Op Center Administrator

Flexible Storage Hitachi Ops Center for advanced management capabilities at Expansive
Management
Scale

Self-Driving
Infrastructure

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VSP Positioning vs. Top Competitors

VSP 5200/5600 replaces VSP 5100/5500

Hitachi Pure IBM

VSP5500 6N VSP5600 6N Power Max
OceanStor
8000
Dorado 18000
High End VSP5500 4N VSP5600 4N
Panama2 Up to 8 Bricks
Power Max AFF 800
VSP5500 2N VSP5600 2N Up to 12HA
OceanStor
2000 FlashSystem
Up to 2 Bricks Dorado 9000
9200
//X90, AFF 800
VSP5100 VSP5200 XL170 1HA
Series PowerStore
High
VSP 9000T
Midrange OceanStor
E1090
//X70 PowerStore FlashSystem Dorado 6000
VSP Series 7000T 7200
E990 VSP AFF 400 OceanStor
VSP E790 PowerStore Dorado 5000
//X50
Midrange G/F900 Series 5000T
VSP OceanStor
G/F700 //X20 PowerStore FlashSystem Dorado 3000
VSP 3000T 5100
E590 Series
VSP
Low G/F3x0 PowerStore
Midrange VSP //X10 1000T
G/F130 Series

Low End

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 Modern Digital Infrastructure For Apps and Data

Hybrid & Multicloud Private Cloud Mission Critical Apps Data Analytics
Solutions

Simplified aaS CLOUD CONVERGED HYPERCONVERGED RACK SCALE Cisco and Hitachi
Consumption Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, Unified Compute Unified Compute Unified Compute Adaptive
STaaS and DPaaS Platform CI Platform HC Platform RS Solutions for CI

AIOPs
EverFlex
• Purchase
Management & Administrator Software Analyzer Software Automator Software • Lease
Orchestration • Consumption
Pricing

V IR T U A L S T OR A GE S OF T WA R E
Software-Defined Storage

VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM

Scalable Object
Storage File Storage
Portfolio

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Support today’s and tomorrow’s
business needs with a digital
infrastructure that can be upgraded and
scaled to meet the needs of any data-
driven workload.

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You

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