Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V - Product Overview

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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM Configuration Guide for SGI
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• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with improved data
availability. A new thin provisioning software feature improves data
availability while reducing storage TCO by allowing customers to allocate
“virtual” disk storage based on their anticipated future needs, with less
physical disk than initially required. Additional physical disks can be
purchased later and installed transparently without interrupting application
services.
• Increased Return on Investment (ROI). The USP V increases ROI by
providing investment protection and longer life for legacy storage, superior
storage and server utilization, improved application quality of service,
lower software licenses/costs, and simplified and centralized storage
management.
• Reduced mainframe storage costs. The USP V lets mainframe
customers exploit SATA storage either internal to the USP V or externally
attached to improve data protection, cost-effectively store larger amounts
DFSMS Migration Level 1 data and offload costly DFSMS mainframe
processing cycles, or deploy a long-term and secure data archive solution
for regulatory compliance. The USP V’s virtual private storage machines are
the ideal compliment to mainframe LPARs for providing workload isolation
and optimum quality of service.
• Application data mobility solutions. The USP V is complemented by a
rich suite of software solutions for managing storage across an entire
heterogeneous storage pool:
– HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager - lets customers continually adjust
their storage infrastructure to meet their changing business needs.
– HiCommand Tuning Manager and HiCommand Device Manager – let
customers continually monitor and forecast their storage infrastructure
needs.
– Hitachi ShadowImage In-System Replication and Hitachi Universal
Replication - deliver proven scalable data-protection for meeting the
most stringent business continuance and compliance requirements of
the world’s largest financial institutions.
– Hitachi Universal Replication and Hitachi ShadowImage now support
more volumes and replication pairs than before. Performance has also
been improved, with support added for more consistency groups spread
across four USP V systems located at each site within a 2- or 3-
datacenter configuration.
Note: The availability of the Hitachi USP V features and functions depends on
the level of microcode installed.