1. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000
Comparative Guide
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helps identify requirements and
accelerate business goals
Many organizations are turning to storage
virtualization to address the challenges they face in
managing storage and enabling greater IT agility.
But many storage virtualization products don’t live
up to the promise, causing IT to spend more time
managing a diverse array of storage products. A
storage virtualization platform that offers mature
virtualization capabilities allows IT to meet today’s
challenges with an always-available, agile and
automated foundation for a trusted Continuous
Cloud Infrastructure.
Virtualized storage platforms vary drastically from
company to company, often forcing businesses to
make tradeoffs between cost, performance and
efficiency. We developed this comparative guide to
help IT executives understand the current virtual-
ized storage landscape. By comparing the benefits
of various offerings, you can easily identify a solu-
tion that will meet your current and future storage
requirements.
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Choose the Best Storage Virtualization Platform
for Your Enterprise
IT decision-makers face multiple challenges
in managing enterprise storage today. Storage
needs continue to grow and new types of
business-critical applications demand consistent
response times, more scalability and no down-
time. Often, today’s data centers house infra-
structure silos built around specific business
applications or technologies. These data silos
limit IT agility and the ability to meet the new
demands of the business.
2. COMPARATIVE GUIDE
Comparative Overview
of Storage Virtualization
Platforms
This Comparative Guide illustrates
the strength of Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform G1000 (VSP G1000) and Hitachi
Storage Virtualization Operating System
(SVOS) relative to currently available
enterprise storage virtualization platforms.
Based on value, data growth, risk and
innovation, VSP G1000 and SVOS offer
clear IT and business advantages (see
Table 1). You no longer need to compro-
mise between enterprise functionality and
midrange value. The advantages of VSP
G1000 include:
■■ 1.9x more drives per chassis to
increase storage density and reduce
energy costs.
■■ 50% less administrative effort to save
time and improve productivity.
■■ 100% availability guarantee to lower risk
and ensure data availability.
■■ 90% less refresh effort to accelerate
innovation and business productivity.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 and Hitachi
Storage Virtualization Operating System deliver enterprise-
class storage virtualization. Together, they help you to
manage more data more efficiently, at higher performance
and service levels with a lower operating cost.
TABLE 1. OVERVIEW COMPARISON OF ENTERPRISE-CLASS STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION OFFERINGS
Storage Virtualization Offerings
Features Hitachi Global IBM® San EMC VMAX EMC
Virtualization Volume Federated VPLEX
Capability Controller Tiered Storage
■■ Enterprise scalability (block/file performance and connectivity)
Reduce operating costs, increase value
■■ Integrated resilient active-active data center support
■■ Single multivendor management interface with local and
remote replication support up to 3 data centers
■■ Low environmental requirement
■■ Protect quality of service with competing workload
■■ Nondisruptive firmware update without quality of service impact
■■ Self-service nondisruptive technology refresh support with GUI
workflow
■■ Unified file, block and object data
■■ Replicated LUN migration support on any type of volume
■■ Plug-and-play virtualization without file system lock-in
■■ File capacity efficiency support without quality of service impact
■■ Discover block and file configurations
■■ Storage features that extend to external storage with existing
data
■■ Consolidated file and block management dashboard
Reduce risk, maximize availability
ACCELERATE innovation and productivity
Increased return on existing assets
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Reduce Operating Costs,
Increase Value
The data center of today is expensive to
manage and maintain, and administrative
overhead reduces the value that IT
can deliver to the business. As reliance
on technology for business-critical
applications grows, IT must deliver more
value, support a new breed of applications
at cloud scale, and do so without
increasing budgets.
VSP G1000 and SVOS reduce IT
overhead, simplifiy storage management,
and reach new levels of scalability
throughout the enterprise with global
storage virtualization unmatched by any
vendor. Within a single management
interface, VSP G1000 enables enterprise
scalability through the industry’s highest
performance hardware for improved
application response time and improved
connectivity. Without the connectivity
limitations of other vendors’ storage
virtualization solutions. You can increase
virtual machine density to new levels,
reducing the costs of managing different
storage systems separately.
VSP G1000 gives you cost-saving
efficiency by simplifying your storage man-
agement process. Where other vendors
leave you managing multiple systems, VSP
G1000 offers a single solution for manag-
ing heterogeneous multivendor storage,
independent of connectivity, location, stor-
age system or vendor. When combined
with remote data replication support, VSP
G1000 allows you to create new storage
system and data center extensibility: You
can provision and manage virtual storage
machines with active-active volumes up to
100km apart1
.
Simplified storage management with the
VSP G1000 means that your IT staff can
do less work to maintain interoperability
between technology layers. Business con-
tinuity and disaster recovery processes
become more efficient as well, allowing
you to lower costs by having each admin-
istrator manage more terabytes of storage.
Furthermore, VSP G1000 lets you reach
new levels of storage consolidation, con-
serving energy and reducing your data
center footprint. It holds up to 1.9 times
more drives per chassis than competing
solutions. With data center costs reach-
ing as high as US$40,000 per square foot
per year to operate, VSP G1000 delivers
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important space savings. By consolidating
file, block and object storage natively on
a single system with VSP G1000, you will
lower your operating expenses and
energy costs.
Increase Return on Existing
Assets
With ever-increasing data growth driven by
factors inside and outside the business,
along with tighter IT budgets, you need
ways to get the most value from your
current storage assets. VSP G1000 and
SVOS maximize your return on your
storage investment. Together, they allow
you to manage and extend the life of your
existing storage and consolidate all of your
data into a single, virtualized platform. With
native quality of service QoS management
and active-active support of VSP G1000,
your storage can handle higher application
and virtual machine density per system
than competing storage platforms.
Many organizations struggle with various
infrastructure silos, creating storage
shortages in 1 silo, while leaving excess
capacity stranded in another. VSP G1000
solves this problem with a platform for
aggregating all file, block and object
storage services, including multivendor
storage resources, into a single pool of
enterprise storage capacity. You can also
improve capacity utilization by integrating
active data, archiving and NAS services
in a single platform, all managed from a
single place. And while competing systems
treat all data equally, VSP G1000 allows
you to prioritize workloads to improve
concurrency while maintaining high
storage density. With support for active-
active volumes up to 100km apart, you
can benefit from increased storage density
without additional risk exposure.
Upgrades and refreshes to the storage
system can be difficult, too. Your business-
critical applications need to run with no
disruption, but online firmware upgrades
and storage system refreshes from
other vendors can have a significant
impact on workload.
VSP G1000 gives you
the tools you need to
make sure that when
upgrades and refreshes
happen, your business-
critical applications aren’t
impacted. It allows you to refresh your
technology with up to 90% less effort than
competing alternatives. And VSP G1000
provides features like deduplication without
impacting throughput and response time
for your business-critical applications,
ensuring maximum productivity.
Reduce Risk, Maximize
Availability
Not only do you face massive data growth,
but you face an increasingly complex set
of requirements to limit data loss. As reli-
ance on technology to run the business
continues to grow, so do the risks to stor-
age. Outages cause costly downtime and
have a negative impact on your brand.
Outages and data loss can also have
costly legal and compliance ramifications
as well. And as storage architecture has
grown more complex, you need to main-
tain the integrity of transactions across
many application tiers. With so many
demands, it’s clear that data protection is
more critical than ever before.
A solid data protection system allows
you to mitigate the risks associated with
a complex storage architecture. You
can deliver better customer service, and
address compliance requirements from
inside and outside the organization.
VSP G1000 has a proven and trusted
technology track record. It is the only
enterprise platform backed by a 100%
data availability, a guarantee you can’t find
with any competing vendor.
With VSP G1000, data protection is main-
tained for both local and remote data, a
level of protection competing platforms
cannot offer. As recovery point objec-
tives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives
(RTOs) become shorter, reflecting less
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