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Accelerate innovation with three times more all-flash

performance, backed by a 100% data availability guarantee

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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series All-Flash Midrange


Cloud Solutions
Modernize Your Data performance and capacity needs so you can Cloud Ready
consolidate more workloads on flash.
Center With an Agile All- Today’s IT leaders need to consider how
their storage can be used as a private cloud
Flash Infrastructure The benefits start with up to three times the
performance and 25% lower latency than platform or leveraged as part of a hybrid
Businesses are aware of the benefits our previous midrange all-flash models, even cloud strategy. To support this goal, VSP F
of adopting all-flash cloud solutions to as data scales to petabytes. Using a new series offers OpenStack and containers inte-
accelerate their applications, yet are under memory architecture and I/O algorithms, gration. OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder)
increasing pressure to return business midrange VSP F series delivers up to 1.2 support allows you to build cloud infrastruc-
value. Consolidation of workloads with min- million IOPs at a better $/IOPS efficiency. tures on top of the VSP F series. Container
imal investment is the aim, providing huge Pairing these advancements with built-in integration allows DevOps teams to accel-
performance in the smallest footprint pos- quality of service (QoS), which controls erate cloud-native application development.
sible while extracting business insights. At workload-specific performance limits, lets Teams can provision storage in seconds,
the same time, it is critical that these cloud you serve more high-performance workloads provide persistent data availability and use
solutions are simple to implement and use with a single array than ever before. leading container orchestration platforms
while delivering enterprise reliability and (Docker SWARM, Kubernetes) to control
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating VSP resources.
operational simplicity.
System RF (SVOS RF) adds improved
With the latest midrange all-flash arrays data reduction, with deduplication and Modern Protection
(AFAs) from Hitachi we can help. The com- compression that minimizes storage foot-
To protect the lifeblood of your business,
pact Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series print, enabling capacity savings of up to
safeguard data and ensure positive cus-
(VSP F series) delivers data three times faster 5:1. Compression and deduplication ser-
tomer experiences, Hitachi is backed
and offers a 100% data availability guarantee vices are selectable and can be activated
by the industry’s only 100% data avail-
to ensure customers get the experiences for specific workloads, giving you maxi-
ability guarantee. Built on legendary
they demand. It also gives you something mum control over capacity efficiency and
Hitachi reliability, VSP F series offers
few AFAs do: infrastructure-wide predictive performance.
analytics that constantly analyze for perfor-
All VSP F models have a true symmetric
mance and downtime risks. Working with IT Economics
active-active controller design, which
Hi-Track Remote Monitoring, VSP F series
reduces the cost and complexity of path Hitachi Vantara all-flash cloud platforms
ensures that you receive the best services, to
management. Other AFAs only let one lower costs by tailoring payments to help
keep workloads running at the highest per-
controller access data at a given time, improve return on investment (ROI) and
formance and uptime.
but VSP F series accesses data volumes align with budgets. Our flexible offer-
via host ports on any controller to pre- ings enable you to upgrade and refresh
Serious All-Flash Efficiency
vent wasted capacity. VMware users can when you need to improve life-cycle
When dealing with all-flash solutions, effi- activate the round-robin policy for better management.
ciency is a key element to managing data network utilization.
center operations. You need to optimize both
complete system redundancy by leveraging TABLE 1. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM F SERIES MIDRANGE
hot-swappable components, nondisruptive SPECIFICATIONS
updates and outstanding data protection. VSP F350 VSP F370
The VSP F series is the best choice for all-
Performance Up to 600.000 IOPS Up to 1,200,000 IOPS
flash storage operations that need to stay
12GB/s bandwidth 12GB/s bandwidth
up and running.
Max. Flash Drives 192 SSD 288 SSD
Systems are also backed by Hi-Track’s Note: SSD = solid-state drives
remote monitoring and analytics, bringing
Max. Raw Capacity 1.4PB 2.1PB
28 years of recorded operations experience
to proactively support your infrastructure. By Flash Packs 4 x 7.6TB SSD, 4 x 3.8TB SSD, 4 x1.9TB SSD,
looking at all performance and support detail 4 x 480GB SSD
from all our Hi-Track customers, we can Host Interfaces 16x FC: 16Gb/s, 32Gb/s
predict when an issue might arise and pro- Note: FC = Fibre Channel 8x iSCSI: 10Gb/s
actively take action to mitigate downtime. Max. Cache 128GB 256GB
Each VSP F series system also offers a Average Data Reduction Ratio* 5:1
suite of data protection software and ser- RAID Supported RAID-1+0, RAID-5, RAID-6
vices that can provide application-aware
*Average data reduction ratios are based on capacity savings from data deduplication and compression. Actual
protection from downtime and data loss. data reduction ratios can vary and depend on individual environments and data structures.
Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID)
software enables simple setup of data pro-
tection and enforces policies to make sure
data is always protected. HDID is paired All VSP F series solutions include Hitachi features. The foundation software package
with snapshots to eliminate backup win- Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA), includes SVOS RF local replication services
dows and accelerates recovery as well as AI-powered predictive analytics, “out of the and data mobility for nondisruptive data
replication for remote disaster recovery. box.” HIAA constantly analyzes telemetry data migration. It also includes HIAA and HDID
For organizations that need more, the across hypervisor, server operating system, software. The advanced package includes
VSP F series offers global-active device, network and storage to optimize performance everything in the foundation package plus
to provide advanced metroclustering. and prevent outages. It does this by monitor- remote replication, metro clustering and
Global-active device enables robust busi- ing resources for performance anomalies or automation software.
ness-continuity solutions across multiple service level agreement misses at device and
For organizations that have their own
data centers. These solutions offer zero subcomponent levels. Optional performance
management toolset we include standards-
downtime and data loss protection and can and capacity forecasting lets you predict when
based application program interfaces
be paired with VSP F series replication for new resources will be needed, enabling supe-
(REST APIs) that centralize administrative
leading-edge 3-data-center protection. rior budget control.
operations on a preferred management
application.
AI-Optimized Operations Simplify Modernization of Your
Managing and maintaining a data center Data Center Think of a fully automated, end-to-end, all-
infrastructure takes time and can leave few All VSP F series midrange flash cloud that has workload protection,
VSP
cycles available to architect tomorrow’s systems come packaged Software predictive analytics, live multisite capa-
solutions. To free up time for driving innova- with a rich set of value- Packages bility and agnostic workload automation.
tion, Hitachi offers operations software with added software, and new Datasheet Integrated directly with your ticketing solu-
artificial intelligence (AI) that monitors the packaging makes it easier READ tion, this is a midrange game-changer!
infrastructure for you. than ever to add advanced

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