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Hitachi NAS Platform 5000 Series

Simple, Non-Disruptive
Enterprise-Class NAS Migration, Management and
With enterprise organizations under increasing pressure to address the substantial
growth of file-based data, applications and life-cycle challenges you need an agile
All-Inclusive Software
file infrastructure to be more efficient and deliver information faster, while Migration deployment from our HNAS 3000
maintaining customer interest and maximizing revenue. The flexibility to deploy cost and 4000 series are built on cluster rolling
optimized, high performance storage services with non-disruptive refreshes are also upgrades and node EVS failover capabilities
critical. The new Hitachi NAS Platform 5000 series is a robust file storage solution allowing a hassle-free, non-disruptive
that delivers the best file scalability and flexibility for workload consolidation with an migration to occur in as easy as 1-2-3. See Figure 1.
enhanced accelerated file system that dramatically improves your return on The enhanced Hitachi Disaster Recovery
investment (ROI) for your enterprise scale-out filing system needs. Leverage and System (HDRS)* provides a simple interface
utilize the same, shared infrastructure you already know and trust to manage the and automates operator tasks associated
growth of your unstructured data without breaking the bank. with using a Global Active Device (GAD)
enhanced for NAS built on Hitachi VSP
storage.
• Manage your data growth while lowering costs: With our dedupe and
compression capabilities you have the most efficient technology at the lowest • Active-active NAS cluster
effective cost. management
• Lower latency, faster response times: Providing you with fresher data to drive • Automated setup and installation
better business decisions with improved response time and reporting of cluster hardware and software
completion. in less time than a manual
• High availability, no unscheduled outages: Meet and exceed your service level installation.
agreement targets for increased productivity.
• Storage provisioning with
• Ease of use: Faster deployment time with better toolsets for system set ups, simplified options to expand or
provisioning, configuration and device management, workflow automation and duplicate replicated storage.
overall system management to improve productivity.
• Snap on snap: Speed up and improve reliability of backups and clones to give • Monitors and automates recovery
for out-of sync paired volume
you quicker access to recover data.
replication.
Each system includes Hitachi NAS OS’s all-
Flexibility to Enable No Compromise Consolidation inclusive base software: SMB, NFS, iSCSI
and FTP protocol support, tenants, filesystem
audit/rollback, snapshot, deduplication,
The HNAS 5000 series supports both file and block (iSCSI) workloads for greater cluster namespace, EVS server farm
consolidation and operational simplicity. File controllers are designed with a migration, data migrator to the cloud, file and
hardware-accelerated architecture, using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) for directory writeable clone, read caching,
active, critical, and sensitive file services. Individual file systems belong to a Hitachi virtual server migration and security and
Enterprise Virtual Server (EVS) for NAS, and each server has its own set of IP WORM. Additional software add-ons include
addresses, policies, and individual port assignments. premium deduplication, EVS 8 packs and
HDRS).
• Virtual cluster support up to 80 nodes*
• 2x the throughput than its predecessor
• Multitenant security: Designed for up to 64 enterprise virtual servers
(EVS), per namespace, with each having its own security context to segregate network traffic for increased security.
• Unlimited virtual capacity supports long-term growth per file system/namespace, with cloud extension up to 130/840
billon objects.
• Hardware-accelerated architecture FPGA: Primary data deduplication leverages an FPGA offload engine to perform
CPU-intensive hash operations that reduce the impact on file-serving performance.
• Unmatched simplicity and power: Little to no administration, configuration or tuning is required. Scheduling is not
necessary. Premium deduplication option provides additional ingest performance by increasing the number of logical
state machines.
• Improved data reduction services with FPGAs and SVOS RF adaptive data reduction, including deduplication and
compression, minimize storage footprint and maintain controller scalability.
Built-in intelligent filesystem cloud tiering provides the mobility and control in the cloud by transparently migrating data
between local and external cloud tiers using a policy-based business rules engine. With an improved file system extension to
cloud, the HNAS 5000 series enables snapshot archiving and leverages cost-effective cloud capacity to store stale or less
active data, while providing local transparent access for users and applications.
• Kubernetes and Ansible* cloud support

• Public cloud targets: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and IBM® Cloud Object Storage.
• Private cloud: Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and IBM Cloud Object Storage.
• Cross-volume link enables files that have been migrated to a cloud environment to be transparently accessed by the
application for nondisruptive retrieval.
Tiered file system (TFS) separates file system metadata from user data. TFS automatically places file system metadata on a
higher performance storage tier to increase file system performance while also providing cost efficiency.
Enhanced object replication with throughput throttling improves quality of service (QoS). Deduplication support targets and
eliminates rehydration of embedded cross volume links while allowing up to 3 data center support powered by our global-
active device metro clustering.
The cluster namespace feature creates a unified directory structure across storage pools and controllers. Multiple file systems
appear under a common root, and both server message block (SMB) and network file system (NFS) clients obtain global
access. EVS server farm migration enables tenant mobility across namespace and servers with shared storage.
*Available post GA feature support/enhancement; contact your Hitachi representative for more details
Best-in-class Efficiency
We live in a hybrid world: every data center uses cloud and on-prem storage and needs easier, more efficient ways to
move data between the two. Our HNAS 5000 series enables a broad range of efficiency technologies that deliver
maximum value and more predictable ongoing costs. Our direct cloud connect functionality to transparently move file
data to your choice of content repository or cloud service (Hitachi Content Platform, Amazon S3, IBM Cloud Object Store
or Microsoft Azure) allows you to gain unparalleled reduction in on-site storage costs and more predictable ongoing
storage costs. All services are selectable and can be activated for specific workloads, giving you maximum control over
efficiency and performance.
A new advantage to Hitachi’s enterprise scale-out file system is our onode and file packing* for small files. Every object
in a file system contains at least one small onode which are usually stored alone within the whole filesystem block
resulting in wasted space. With onode and file packing, up to eight onodes or files can be packed into one filesystem
block resulting in space saving, latency reduction and fewer writes to the storage. This new feature will allow you to
optimize your files with the highest level of performance, efficiency and simplification your business strives for.
In addition, HNAS offers linked, writable snapshot clones. With linked clones, thousands — even millions — of copies of
data sets are created very rapidly while using near-zero extra capacity. For highly virtualized environments, the ability to
create a standard “gold image” that can be used across virtual machines and desktops not only saves money, but also
reduces support and management costs.
Multilayered, Reliable Data Protection

The need for more resilience on business-critical data is noticeable now more than ever and Hitachi has you covered by
offering the upmost NAS resiliency to deliver both on site and remote site failover access allowing for more uptime and
consistent data.
• NAS object-based replication provides a fast and efficient means to replicate data over wide area networks,
improves recovery time objectives (RTOs) and facilitates simple failover and failback operations.
• Achieve fully synchronous active-active clustering of up to 500km with automated takeover, when implemented
with global-active device metro clustering.
o Global-active device ensures continuous operations with nonstop data access so IT teams can meet
their disaster recovery objectives with dramatically reduced return-to-operations time.
• A variety of snapshot options provides point-in-time data protection capabilities:
o File system snapshot includes hidden snapshot folder read-only access and Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service (VSS) recovery capability for local data protection of end user files and folders.
o File and directory clones enable the creation of capacity-efficient writable snapshots (clones) of files to
accelerate production data copies in testing and development and virtual server and virtual desktop
infrastructure environments. Directory clones extend the file cloning capability to directory trees to
enable protection or repurposing of applications and databases.
o Anti-Virus support (RPC/iCAP)
o 2-way (FC attached tape)* and 3-way NDMP backup support

*Available post GA feature support/enhancement; contact your Hitachi representative for more details
Easy, Simple Migration Deployment
Figure 1. Migration from HNAS 3000/4000 Series
Node 1 Node 2 ………………. Node N

Tenant/Filesystem Tenant/Filesystem Tenant/Filesystem
… … …
Cluster Namespace ..… Cluster Namespace

Object Store Storage Pool Object Store Storage Pool
Flash HDDs Flash HDDs Flash HDDs

HNAS 5000 Series Specifications
TABLE 1: 5200 and 5300 Models
5200 5300
Protocol Support
NFS, SMB, FTP, iSCSI and HTTP(S3) to the cloud
Virtual Cluster Support Up to 40 nodes Up to 80 nodes
Aggregate Performance (GB/s) 192 384

Max. Virtual File System/Namespace
Size (w/tiering to Object Store) Unlimited up to max. files per file system/namespace
Max. Files per File
System/Namespace 130/840 Billion
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Executive Summary
Engineered for Performance
The VSP E1090 Controllers
Hardware Components
Front End Configuration
Back End Configuration
Performance and Resiliency Enhancements
Executive Summary
The Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E1090 storage system is Hitachi’s newest midsized
enterprise platform, designed to utilize NVMe to deliver industry-leading performance and
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availability. The VSP E1090 features a single, flash-optimized Storage Virtualization

Operating System (SVOS) image running on 64 processor cores, sharing a global cache of 1
TiB. Based primarily on SVOS optimizations, the VSP E1090 offers higher performance with
fewer hardware resources than competitors. In addition, the VSP E1090 was upgraded to an
advanced Cascade Lake CPU, permitting read response times as low as 41 microseconds
and data reduction throughput was improved up to 2X by the new Compression Accelerator
Module. Improvements in reliability and serviceability allow the VSP E1090 to claim an
industry-leading 99.9999% availability (on average, 0.3 seconds per year of downtime
expected). In this blog, we’ll take a brief look at the highlights of the VSP E1090 architecture.
Engineered for Performance

The VSP E1090 features a new controller board powered by two 16-core Intel Cascade Lake
CPUs operating at 2.1 GHz. The two CPUs function as a single 32-core MPU per controller.
The upgraded controller board adds 14% more CPU power compared to the VSP E990. The
extra processing power enables the VSP E1090 to leverage the NVMe protocol, which has a
low-latency command set and multiple queues per device, for unprecedented performance in
a midsized package. Because NVMe doesn’t allow for cascading connections, the VSP
E1090 supports a maximum of 4 NVMe drive boxes connected to the controllers using PCI
Express Gen3. This simple, streamlined configuration allows for low-latency, point-to-point
connections between the E1090 controllers and the NVMe SSDs.
Figure 1. The VSP E1090 offers flexible configuration options with industry-leading performance and 99.9999% availability
The VSP E1090 Controllers

Figure 1 presents a block diagram of the VSP E1090 dual-controller system. Each interface
board (CHB, DKBN) is connected to a controller using 8 x PCIe Gen 3 lanes, which means 16
GB/s of available bandwidth (8 GB/s send, and 8 GB/s receive). The configuration in Figure 1
includes two pairs of NVMe disk adapters (DKBNs) that support 1-2 NVMe drive boxes
(DBNs) and up to 48 NVMe SSDs. Each controller in this configuration has up to 96 GB/s of
front-end theoretical bandwidth (if six CHBs per controller were configured), and 32 GB/s of
back end bandwidth (two DKBNs). An alternative configuration (not pictured) doubles the
capability of the NVMe back end, with four DKBNs per controller supporting 3-4 DBNs and
up to 96 NVMe SSDs. The latter configuration would have 64 GB/s of back end bandwidth
per controller and up to 64 GB/s of front-end bandwidth per controller (if 4 CHBs per
controller were installed).
Like previous Hitachi enterprise products, all VSP E1090 processors run a single SVOS
image and share a global cache. Cache is distributed across individual controllers for fast,
efficient, and balanced memory access. Although VSP E1090 hardware and microcode would
permit a variety of cache configurations, the only configuration available has the maximum
cache configuration (1 TB). Therefore, all eight DIMM slots per controller are populated with
64 GB DDR4-2400 DIMMs for a total of 153.6 GB/s of theoretical memory bandwidth per
controller.
ADR performance was improved up to 2X by the addition of 2 Compression Accelerator

Modules per controller. The compression accelerators are labeled “ACLF” in Figure 1. As
observed in GPSE testing, the compression accelerator improves ADR performance as much
as 2X, while also boosting capacity savings. The Compression Accelerator Module allows the
CPU to offload the work of compression to a Hitachi-designed ASIC (application-specific
integrated circuit). The ASIC uses an efficient compression algorithm optimized for
implementation in specialized hardware. The compression accelerator operates on data in
cache using direct memory addressing (DMA); it does not require copy operations and can
perform work with very low latency. As shown in Figure 2, the Compression Accelerator
Module is connected to the controller using eight PCI Express Gen3 lanes. Within the
accelerator module, a PCIe switch connects four lanes to each of the two ASICs per
Compression Accelerator Module. The compression accelerator occupies unused space in
the fan module (two per controller), so each controller gets four compression ASICs.
Figure 2. Compression Accelerator Module Block Diagram
Hardware Components
While the VSP E1090 has a new and faster controller board, other basic hardware
components are shared with the VSP 5000 or VSP G900. CHBs are shared with VSP G900.
Up to six four-port 8/16/32 Gb FC or six two-port 10 Gb iSCSI CHBs per controller can be
installed. (Protocol types must be installed symmetrically between controller 1 and controller
2). For details on CHBs, see the VSP Gxx0 and Fxx0 Architecture and Concepts Guide.
DKBN adapters for the all-NVME back end are shared with the VSP 5000, as are the NVMe
SSDs, which are available in five different capacities (1.9 TB, 3.8 TB, 7.6 TB, 15 TB, and 30
TB). The NVMe drive box (DBN) is also shared with VSP 5000. However, unlike the VSP
5000, which has strict rules about Parity Group configuration, the VSP E1090 DBN can be
ordered in quantities as small as a single tray. The E1090 also includes a new option for a
SAS back end. The SAS back end shares the same architecture and components as the VSP
G900.
Front End Configuration

VSP E1090 FC ports run in universal (also called bi-directional) mode. A bi-directional port
can simultaneously function as a target (for host I/O or replication) and initiator (for external
storage or replication), with each function having a queue depth of 1,024 The highest-
performing VSP E1090 front end configuration would use “100% straight” access, in which
LUNs are always accessed on a CHB port connected to the controller that owns the LUN.
Addressing a LUN on the non-owning controller (known as “front end cross” I/O) increases
the overhead by a small amount for each command. However, our testing shows that front-
end cross I/O does not have a significant performance impact under normal operating
conditions (up to about 70% MP busy). Configuring to avoid front end cross I/O is not
recommended unless the customer requires the highest possible levels of performance.
Figure 3. VSP E1090 Universal Port Functionality
A front end I/O expansion module (a common component with F900) is also available for
VSP E1090. As shown in Figure 4, two CHB slots per controller can be used to connect to as
many as four CHBs per controller in the expansion module. With the expansion module in
place, a diskless VSP E1090 could present up to 80 FC ports, or 40 iSCSI ports per system.
However, note that the eight CHB slots in the expansion module must share the PCIe
bandwidth of the four slots to which the expansion module is connected, which may limit
throughput for large-block workloads. See the VSP Gxx0 and Fxx0 Architecture and
Concepts Guide for more detail on the I/O expansion module.
Figure 4. The I/O Expansion Module Permits Installation of Up to Ten CHBs Per Controller
Back End Configuration

The VSP E1090 has an all-NVMe back end, which makes configuration relatively simple and
straightforward. Either two or four DKBNs per controller can be installed. As presented in
Figure 5, either CHBs or DKBNs can be installed into slots 1-E/F and 2-E/F in each controller.
A configuration with two DKBNs per controller can support one or two NVMe drive trays, and
up to 48 NVMe SSDs. With four DKBNs per controller, three or four drive trays can be
connected, accommodating up to 96 SSDs (see Figure 6). Each DKBN has two ports that
are connected to two different DBNs using 4-lane PCIe Gen3 copper cables, as shown in
Figure 6. Each cable connection has 8 GB/s of PCIe bandwidth (4 GB/s send, and 4 GB/s
receive). Each DBN (drive tray) with four standard connections has 16 GB/s send and 16
GB/s receive of PCIe bandwidth. Within each DBN (Figure 7) are two PCIe switches, each of
which is connected to two DKBNs using 4-lane PCIe cables. As shown in Figure 7, each
NVMe SSD is connected to both PCIe switches using the DBN backplane. In summary, each
NVMe SSD can be accessed using a point to point PCIe connection by two different DKBNs
on each controller, for a total of four redundant back end paths per drive.
Figure 5. Multi-Purpose Slots Permit Installation of Two or Four DKBN Pairs
Figure 6. Connection Diagram of the Maximum Back End Configuration
Figure 7. DBN Block Diagram
Due to the positioning as a mid-sized enterprise array, the VSP E1090 includes flexible Parity
Group configuration. Table 1 shows the supported Parity Group configurations, that can be
configured on any combination of 1-4 drive trays.
Table 1. Supported Parity Group Configurations
Finally, encrypted DKBNs (eDKBNs) are optionally available for the VSP E1090. The eDKBNs
offload the work of encryption to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as shown in
Figure 8. The FPGAs allow FIPS 140 level 2 encryption with little or no performance impact.
Encrypting DKBNs is also recommended for customers requiring the maximum non-ADR
sequential read throughput of 40 GB/s (which is only available in configurations having at
least three drive trays). The eDKBNs optimize PCIe block transfers, which requires fewer
DMA operations, and improves non-ADR sequential read throughput.
Figure 8. eDKBN Block Diagram
Performance and Resiliency Enhancements

Significant enhancements in the VSP E1090 include:
Upgraded controllers with 14% more processing power than VSP E990 and 53% more
processing power than VSP F900.
Significantly improved ADR performance through Compression Accelerator Modules
(ACLF). See: E1090 ADR Performance using NVMe SSDs and E1090 ADR Performance
using SAS SSDs.
An 80% reduction in drive rebuild time compared to earlier midsized enterprise
platforms
Smaller access size for ADR metadata reduces overhead.
Support for NVMe allows extremely low latency with up to 5X higher cache miss IOPS
per drive.
We’ve briefly reviewed the highlights of VSP E1090 architecture, including improvements in
performance, scalability and resiliency. For additional information, please visit the GPSE
Resource LIbrary.
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Introduction
The Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E590 and E790 are the newest additions to Hitachi’s midsized enterprise
product line, engineered to utilize NVMe to deliver industry-leading performance in a small, affordable form factor.
The VSP E series (which also includes the VSP E990) features a single, flash-optimized Storage Virtualization
Operating System (SVOS) image operating on Intel Xeon multi-core, multi-threaded processors. Thanks primarily to
SVOS optimizations, the new VSP E Series models offer the highest performance available in a 2U form factor. In
this blog, we will examine how Hitachi put industry leading NVMe performance into a very small package.
The VSP E series arrays leverage the NVMe storage protocol, which was designed to take advantage of the fast
response times and parallel I/O capabilities of flash. NVMe provides a streamlined command set for accessing flash
media over a PCIe bus or storage fabric, allowing for up to 64K separate queues, each with a queue depth of 64K.
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Harnessing the full power of flash with the NVMe protocol requires an efficient operating system and advanced
processors, both of which are included with the latest VSP E series arrays. The new technologies included in the
VSP E series are complemented by Hitachi’s sophisticated, flash-optimized cache architecture, with its focus on data
integrity, efficiency, and performance optimization. Table 1 presents the basic specifications of the VSP E590 and
VSP E790.
Table 1. Selected VSP E590 and E790 Specifications
Feature VSP E590 VSP E790

Form Factor 2U 2U
1
Maximum 8 KiB IOPS 3.1 Million 6.8 Million
Maximum NVMe SSDs 24 24
Maximum Raw Internal Capacity 720 TB (24 x 30 TB SSD) 720 TB (24 x 30 TB SSD)
Maximum Raw External Capacity 144 PB 216 PB
Cache Capacity Options 384 GB or 768 GB 768 GB
Maximum Internal Cache Bandwidth 460 GB/s 460 GB/s
Maximum Number of Logical Devices 32,768 49,152
Maximum LUN Size 256 TB 256 TB
Maximum Host Ports 12 iSCSI, 24 FC 12 iSCSI, 24 FC
Data-at-Rest Encryption Available Available
1. 100% Random Read Cache-Hit
Before covering the hardware in more detail, let’s begin with a review of two important SVOS features that are
common to all Hitachi storage products.
Hitachi Dynamic
Provisioning (HDP)
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning provides a mechanism for grouping many physical devices (NVMe SSDs in the VSP E
Series) into a single pool. The pool mechanism creates a structure of 42 MB pool pages from each device within the
pool. HDP then presents automatically managed, wide-striped block devices to one or more hosts. This is like the
use of a host-based logical volume manager (LVM) and its wide striping mechanism across all member LUNs in its
“pool”. The LUNs presented by an HDP pool are called Dynamic Provisioning Volumes (DPVOLs or virtual volumes).
DPVOLs have a user-specified logical size up to 256TB. The host accesses the DPVOL as if it were a normal
volume (LUN) over one or more host ports. A major difference is that disk space is not physically allocated to a
DPVOL from the pool until the host has written to different parts of that DPVOL’s Logical Block Address (LBA) space.
The entire logical size specified when creating that DPVOL could eventually become fully mapped to physical space
using 42 MB pool pages from every device in the pool.
Adaptive Data
Reduction (ADR)
Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) adds controller-based compression and deduplication to HDP, greatly increasing the
effective storage capacity presented by the array. A lossless compression algorithm is used to reduce the number of
physical bits needed to represent the host-written data. Deduplication removes redundant copies of identical data
segments and replaces them with pointers to a single instance of the data segment on disk. These capacity saving
features are supported in conjunction with HDP, so that only DPVOLs can have either compression or deduplication
plus compression enabled. (Deduplication without compression is not supported). Each DPVOL has a capacity
saving attribute, for which the settings are “Disabled”, “Compression”, or “Deduplication and Compression”. DPVOLs
with either capacity saving attribute set are referred to as Data Reduction Vols (DRDVOLs). The deduplication scope
is at the HDP pool level for all DRDVOLs with the “Deduplication and Compression” attribute set.
The data reduction engine uses a combination of inline and post-process methods to achieve capacity saving with
the minimum amount of overhead to host I/O. Normally with HDP, each DPVOL is made up of multiple 42 MB
physical pages allocated from the HDP pool. But with data reduction enabled, each DRDVOL is made up of 42 MB
virtual pages. If a virtual page has not yet been processed for data reduction, it is identified as a non-DRD virtual
page and is essentially a pointer to an entire physical page in the pool. After data reduction, the virtual page is
identified as a DRD virtual page and it then contains pointers to 8 KB chunks stored in different physical pages in the
HDP pool. The initial data reduction post-processing is done to non-DRD virtual pages that have not had write
activity in at least five minutes. The non-DRD virtual page is processed in 8 KB chunks and compressed data are
written in log-structured fashion to new locations in the pool, likely one or more new physical pages. If enabled for
the DRDVOL, deduplication is then performed on the compressed data chunks, so that duplicate chunks are
invalidated (after a hash match and bit-by-bit comparison) and replaced with a pointer to the location of the physical
chunk. Garbage collection is done in the background to combat fragmentation over time by coalescing the pockets of
free space resulting from invalidated data chunks. Subsequent rewrites to already compressed data are then
handled purely inline for best performance.
A major advantage of Hitachi’s approach to data reduction is the ability to customize settings for each LUN. For
example, compression (but not deduplication) could be configured for LUNs on which a database’s unique
checksums in each 8K block could make deduplication less effective. Both compression and deduplication could be
enabled for LUNs hosting virtual desktops, which may contain multiple copies of the same data. And if an application
encrypts or compresses its data on the host, making additional capacity savings impossible, then ADR can be
completely disabled on the affected LUNs to avoid unnecessary overhead. The flexibility of Hitachi’s ADR allows
capacity savings to be obtained on appropriate data, with the least possible impact to host I/O.
Front End
Configuration
Two options for host connectivity are currently offered—fibre channel and iSCSI. The VSP E590 and VSP E790
support 1-3 channel board pairs, to be installed in the rear of the chassis as shown in Figure 1. (Protocol types must
be installed symmetrically between controller 1 and controller 2).
Figure 1. VSP E590 and VSP E790 CHB locations
Channel boards must be installed in pairs. The FC CHBs support transfer rates up to 3200 MB/s. iSCSI CHBs
support transfer rates up to 1,000 MB/s. Additional details about the CHBs are shown in Table 2 below.
Table 2. Host Connectivity Options
CHB Transfer Rate CHBs Per System Ports Per CHB Ports Per System
16 Gb Fibre Channel 400/800/1600 MB/s 2/4/6 4 8/16/24
32 Gb Fibre Channel 800/1600/3200 MB/s 2/4/6 4 8/16/24
Fibre iSCSI 1000 MB/s 2/4/6 2 4/8/12
Copper iSCSI 100/1000 MB/s 2/4/6 2 4/8/12
VSP Ex90 FC ports operate in universal (also called bi-directional) mode. A bi-directional port can simultaneously
function as a target (for host I/O or replication) and initiator (for external storage or replication), with each function
having a queue depth of 1,024.
The VSP E590 and

E790 Controllers
Processing power and high-speed connectivity are at the heart of the 2U VSP E series dual-controller system (as
shown in Figure 2). Let’s begin with the controller’s connection to the channel boards. The “A” and “C” channel
board slots connect to the controller via 16 x PCIe Gen3 lanes, and thus have 32 GB/s of available bandwidth (16
GB/s send, and 16 GB/s receive). The “B” slot gets eight PCIe Gen3 lanes, and therefore has 16 GB/s of theoretical
bandwidth. Each controller has two multicore Intel Xeon CPUs, linked by two Ultra Path Interconnects (UPIs), each
supporting up to 10.4 gigatransfers per second. The two CPUs operate as a single multi-processing unit (MPU) per
controller. Like previous Hitachi enterprise products, all VSP E series processors run a single SVOS image and
share a global cache. Cache is allocated across individual controllers for fast, efficient, and balanced memory
access.
Figure 2. VSP E590 and VSP E790 Controller Block Diagram
Each CPU has six memory channels for DDR4 memory, providing as much as 115 GB/s per CPU of theoretical
memory bandwidth (up to 230 GB/s per controller, and 460 GB/s per system). Data and command transfers between
controllers are done over the two non-transparent bus (NTB) connections, which together are allocated a total of 16
x PCIe Gen3 lanes. All VSP E series arrays feature two NTB connections between controllers, thus avoiding any
single failure point for this critical component. Finally, each controllers’ CPUs are connected via an embedded PCIe
switch to the NVMe SSDs. Each controller can establish a point-to-point connection to each of up to twenty-four
drives over a 2-lane, 4 GB/s PCIe Gen3 bus.
The primary difference between VSP E790 and VSP E590 is processing power. The VSP E790 comes equipped with
four 16-core CPUs, while the VSP E590 has four 6-core processors. Our testing shows that the VSP E790 has
enough processing power to approach the full IOPS potential of the fast NVMe drives. For example, on the VSP
E790 we measured 3.64 million 8 KiB cache-miss random read IOPS from eight SSDs, with a response time of 0.51
milliseconds. On the VSP E590, the same test yielded 1.34 million IOPS with a 0.53 millisecond response time. With
the same drive configuration as the E590, the E790 could deliver 2.7X more IOPS because of its high-powered
CPUs. Of course, the VSP E590’s 1.34 million cache-miss random read IOPS will be more than sufficient for many
applications.
Encrypting controllers (eCTLs) are optionally available for the VSP E790 and VSP E590. The eCTLs offload the work
of encryption to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The FPGAs are connected by a PCIe switch positioned
between the controller CPUs and the flash drives. The FPGAs allow FIPS 140 level 2 encryption to be done with little
or no performance impact.
Logical Devices and

MPUs
The CPUs of the Ex90 controllers are logically organized into multi-processing units (MPUs). There is one MPU per
controller, thus two MPUs per system. When logical devices (LDEVs) are provisioned, LDEV ownership is assigned
(round-robin by default) to one of the two MPUs. The assigned MPU is responsible for handling I/O commands for
the logical devices it owns. Any CPU core in the MPU can process I/O for an LDEV assigned to that MPU. Therefore,
all of the array’s processing power can be leveraged by distributing a workload across a minimum of two LDEVs (one
per MPU). However, SVOS multiprocessing can run a bit more efficiently with a larger quantity of logical devices as
discussed in this HDP blog.
Cache Architecture
The importance of storage array cache (i.e., Dynamic Random Access Memory or DRAM) may have diminished in
the era of NVMe flash drives. However, I/O cache can still provide a significant performance boost for several
reasons. First, DRAM is faster than flash, at least by an order of magnitude. When a host requests cache-resident
data (sometimes called a cache “hit”) the command can be completed with the lowest possible latency. For example,
our 8KiB random read hit testing on VSP E590 measured response times as low as 66 microseconds (0.066
milliseconds). The fastest response time observed in the 8 KiB random read miss testing was about 4X higher at 250
microseconds. Reading data from cache is not only advantageous because DRAM is the fastest medium, but also
means that the request for data is satisfied with no additional address lookups or back end I/O commands. And when
it comes to optimizing performance, Hitachi isn’t content to simply cache the most recently accessed data. I/O
patterns on each LDEV are periodically analyzed to identify the data most likely to be accessed repeatedly. Cache is
preferentially allocated to such blocks. Meanwhile, areas of each LUN identified as having the lowest probability of a
cache hit will not have any cache allocated. Instead, such data are sent to the host through a transfer buffer, thereby
saving the overhead of allocating a cache segment.
Cache also enhances write performance. After writes have been mirrored in both controllers’ DRAM to protect
against data loss (but before data have been written to flash) the host is sent a write acknowledgment. The quick
response to writes allows latency-sensitive applications to operate smoothly. Newly written data are held in cache for
a while, to allow for related blocks to be aggregated and written to flash together in larger chunks. This “gathering
write” algorithm reduces the need for parity operations, thereby bringing down controller and drive busy rates and
improving overall response time.
Back End
Configuration
The VSP E590 and VSP E790 both have an all-NVMe back end integrated into the controller chassis, which makes
configuration simple and straightforward. As noted earlier, up to twenty-four NVMe SSDs may be installed. Table 3
lists the supported drive types, and Table 4 shows the available RAID configurations.
Table 3. NVMe SSD Options
Name Type Capacity

19RVM NVMe SSD 3DWPD 1.9TB
15RVM NVMe SSD 1DWPD 15TB
30RRVM NVMe SSD 1DWPD 30TB
Table 4. Supported RAID Configurations
RAID Type Configurations

RAID-10 2D+2D, 2D+2D Concatenation
RAID-5 3D+1P, 4D+1P, 6D+1P, 7D+1P, 7D+1P Concatenation
RAID-6 6D+2P, 12D+2P, 14D+2P
Hitachi storage has often been configured with RAID-6 6D+2P, or perhaps RAID-6 14D+2P for data protection and
good capacity efficiency. However, if any spare drives are to be allocated in the 2U E series arrays, only a single
14D+2P or two 6D+2P groups could be created. We therefore tested an asymmetrical configuration with I/O
distributed across one 6D+2P parity group and one 12D+2P parity group in a single HDP pool--a configuration which
offers RAID-6 data protection, good capacity efficiency, with one or two spare drives. We found no difference in
performance between the asymmetrical configuration that allows for spare drives, and a symmetrical configuration
with three RAID-6 6D+2P parity groups.
We have briefly introduced the architecture of the Virtual Storage Platform E590 and E790. For more information on
Hitachi’s implementation of NVMe, and other exemplary features of the VSP E series, see Hu Yoshida’s recent blog
entitled “Unique VSP Capabilities Which Were Not Noted in the Gartner Report.” Also see the VSP E Series page.
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#ThoughtLeadership
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VSP E590 and E790 Hardware Controller (CTL)
DIMM
BacKup Module (BKM)
# Parts Discription
Encryption FPGA
(CTLMNE, CTLSNE) 1 Controller •Consists of CPU, DIMM, CFM.
Board •CFM can be replaced without CTL
(CTL) removal.
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Power Supply •(DKB, •DisK Board (DKB or eDKB)
Unit (PSU) eDKB) •Hitachi Interconnect Edge
•(HIE)
3 Cache Flash Flash memory to back up the DIMM data

CPU Memory in the case of electric power failure.
NVMe Drive (CFM)
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(PSU)
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(16x PCIe) (8x PCIe) (16x PCIe) Memory (CFM)
Midrange Workhorse
• High-end Midrange offering

‒ Performance up to 8.4M IOPs, latency as low as
41uS
‒ Capacity scale up to 2.9PB all-NVMe or 25.9PB SAS VSP E1090
hybrid for multi-workload consolidation
‒ 64-core Cascade Lake-based Controller Modules
‒ New Compression Off-load Engine & Algorithm
‒ All NVMe or SAS SSD & HDD environments
8.4M IOPS
Dual-Controller
64-CORE per Controller
• Simplified Management and Lower TCO
1TB Memory
‒ Simplified Management – Embedded GUI, SVP-less Compression Offload
‒ Quick self-install Engine
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CAPACITY
‒ Controller upgrade program under Hitachi Modern
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General Configuration of the VSP E1090
Front-End Controller Back-End Drives
24 x NVMe
SSD SFF
NVMe
2U DBN
Fibre Channel
32Gb/s 12 x SAS
Backplane PCIe Gen3
4 Ports NL-SAS LFF
OR
iSCSI (SFP)
10Gb/s 2U DBL
2 Ports SSD SFF
24 x SAS
iSCSI (10Base-T)
1/10Gb/s SAS SFF
SAS
2 Ports 2U DBS2/DBS
SAS SFF*
60 x SFF/LFF
NL-SAS LFF
4U DB60

VSP E series specifications at-a-glance
E790 E590 E1090
Hi-Mid Low High-end
Segment
Midrange Storage Platform Midrange Storage Platform Midrange Storage Platform
Model NVMe All Flash Array & SAS Hybrid NVMe All Flash Array & SAS Hybrid NVMe All Flash Array or SAS Hybrid
Software Base / Advanced Base / Advanced Base/Advanced
Enhanced NVMe and SAS Expansion Compression Accelerator

NVMe and SAS Expansion
Capabilities NVMe or SAS Expansion
NVME: 2U Controller NVME: 2U Controller NVME: 4U Controller + 4x 2U DBN

Footprint
Hybrid: 2U Controller + 2x DBS2 + 8x DBxx Hybrid: 2U Controller + 2x DBS2 + 8x DBxx SAS: 4U Controller + 4x DBS2 + 32x DBxx
Nodes/Controllers 1 Node / 2 Controllers 1 Node / 2 Controllers 1 Node / 2 Controllers
Processor Cores
64 Cores 24 Cores 64 Cores
(Cascade Lake)
Cache 768GB 768GB or 384GB 1024GB

24 x NVMe SSD 24 x NVMe SSD 96 x NVMe SSD
Drive Qty 240 x SFF SAS 240 x SFF SAS 864 x SFF SAS
480 x LFF SAS 480 x LFF SAS 960 x LFF SAS
722TB NVMe SSD 722TB NVMe SSD 2.888 PB NVMe SSD

Max capacity (raw)
8.9PB with SAS expansion 8.9PB with SAS expansion 25.7PB with SAS expansion
Front End Ports 24/12 24/12 80/40

(FC/iSCSI) 32G FC,10GbE 32G FC,10GbE 32G FC,10GbE
NVMe & SAS SSD (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.8TB, NVMe & SAS SSD (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.8TB, 15TB, NVMe or SAS SSD (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.8TB, 15TB,
Supported Media 15TB, 30TB) 30TB) 30TB)
SAS HDD (2.4TB, 6TB, 10TB, 14TB, 18TB) SAS HDD (2.4TB, 6TB, 10TB, 14TB, 18TB) SAS HDD (2.4TB, 6TB, 10TB, 14TB, 18TB)
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Make the most reliable even more resilient with 100% data availability
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Intermix
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Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller
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SAS SSD
NVMe SSD
SAS HYBRID
Unified Management and AIOps
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Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance is
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protection and platform
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paths onto newer generation
controllers/platforms.
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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.
An Introduction to Modern Storage Assurance
Next Gen
VSP E1090
Gives you the flexibility to stay

modern and agile for new
VSP E Series models
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Modern Storage Assurance Lifecycle (5 Year Example)
5 Year Maintenance & Modern Storage Assurance
Year 0 Year 3 Year 5
New VSP E1090 Upgrade to Original

System with 5 years successor model Maintenance
Maintenance & Modern (No additional Maintenance
charge) Term Ends
Storage Assurance
Successor Successor
VSP E1090
Model Model

Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR)
In the Real World E-Series Rocks

It!
So simple and Effective

VSP E1090 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
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)

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
and E1090
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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Infrastructure.

The Shift to Self-Driving , AI-enabled Operations
Management Manual
Sprawl Processes
Traditional Resource
Data Center Delivery
IT
Staff
Incident
Workload Resolution
Repatriation

Storage Management Flexibility
Management options that grow with your business
General Storage Management Enterprise Storage Management
• VSP Embedded Management • Hitachi Ops Center

‒ Included with E-series ‒ Large deployments, multiple VSP arrays
‒ Small deployment, single VSP array ‒ Real-time, telemetry monitoring
‒ Simple setup & rapid provisioning ‒ Automated workflows and orchestration
‒ Default configurations for simplicity ‒ Enterprise data copy management
‒ Ideal for IT generalists ‒ Mission critical, high availability
• Hitachi Ops Center Clear Sight operations
‒ Cloud-based monitoring
Fast Storage Simplified High Advanced

Deployment System Availability Management
Configurations Enterprise Requirements
Storage
Flexible Management Options
Embedded or OpsCenter Suite
Rapid Storage Provisioning

1 Provision VSP E Series storage resources
in seconds
Timely Storage Monitoring

2 Near real-time storage system
performance monitoring
Easily Switch to Hitachi Ops

Center
3 Seamless transition to Ops Center
Administrator to accommodate larger
VSP environments
Analyzer
Automator
Hitachi Ops
Center
Administrato Protector
Management Suite r

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 embedded management and Op Center Administrator

Flexible Storage Rapid array setup; move to Hitachi Ops Center for advanced
Management
management capabilities
Self-Driving
Infrastructure

VSP E1090 Positioning vs. Top Competitors
VSP E1090 replaces VSP E990
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

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
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Orchestration • Consumption
Pricing
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Software-Defined Storage
VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM

Scalable Object
Storage File Storage
Portfolio

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-
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DATA SHEE T

Consolidate file data on the same infrastructure

Hitachi NAS Platform 5000 Series

• Kubernetes and Ansible* cloud support

Multilayered, Reliable Data Protection

• A variety of snapshot options provides point-in-time data protection capabilities:

o Anti-Virus support (RPC/iCAP)

o 2-way (FC attached tape)* and 3-way NDMP backup support

Easy, Simple Migration Deployment

Figure 1. Migration from HNAS 3000/4000 Series

Node 1 Node 2 ………………. Node N

Cluster Namespace ..… Cluster Namespace

Flash HDDs Flash HDDs Flash HDDs

Virtual Cluster Support Up to 40 nodes Up to 80 nodes

Aggregate Performance (GB/s) 192 384

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INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL STOR AGE PLATFORM E1090 ARCHITECTURE

By Sudipta Kumar Mohapatra posted 03-24-2022 14:26

availability. The VSP E1090 features a single, flash-optimized Storage Virtualization

Engineered for Performance

The VSP E1090 Controllers

ADR performance was improved up to 2X by the addition of 2 Compression Accelerator

Figure 2. Compression Accelerator Module Block Diagram

Front End Configuration

Figure 3. VSP E1090 Universal Port Functionality

Back End Configuration

Figure 5. Multi-Purpose Slots Permit Installation of Two or Four DKBN Pairs

Figure 6. Connection Diagram of the Maximum Back End Configuration

Figure 7. DBN Block Diagram

Table 1. Supported Parity Group Configurations

Figure 8. eDKBN Block Diagram

Performance and Resiliency Enhancements

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INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL STOR AGE PLATFORM E590 AND E790 ARCHITECTURE

By Charles Lofton posted 04-19-2021 22:44

Table 1. Selected VSP E590 and E790 Specifications

Feature VSP E590 VSP E790

Figure 1. VSP E590 and VSP E790 CHB locations

Table 2. Host Connectivity Options

The VSP E590 and

Figure 2. VSP E590 and VSP E790 Controller Block Diagram

Logical Devices and

Table 3. NVMe SSD Options

Name Type Capacity

Table 4. Supported RAID Configurations

RAID Type Configurations

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