Storage System Specifications - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series Hardware Manual

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Key features

Agility and scalability

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There are four VSP 5000 series models: VSP 5100, VSP 5500, VSP 5100H, and VSP

5500H. The VSP 5100 all-flash array (AFA) is a scale-up enterprise storage platform

with one pair of controller nodes supporting open and mainframe workloads. The

VSP 5500 AFA starts with a single node pair and scales out to three node pairs to

provide up to 69 PB of raw capacity and 21 million IOPS of performance. Both models

are also available as hybrid arrays, VSP 5100H and VSP 5500H, that support a mixed

environment of the following drives:

SAS HDD

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SAS SSD

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SAS FMD

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NVMe SSD

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NVMe SCM

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All-flash performance accelerated by NVMe technology

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NVMe drives provide high throughput and low latency to achieve high response

performance, enabling large volumes of data to be processed rapidly with response

times as low as 70 microseconds. NVMe storage class memory (SCM) drives provide

significantly quicker access to data, up to 10 times faster than flash drives, and are

more durable than flash drives.

Reliability and resiliency

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Leveraging hot-swappable components, nondisruptive maintenance and upgrades,

and outstanding data protection, VSP 5000 series offers complete system redundancy

and is backed by a 100% data availability guarantee. VSP 5000 series's active-active

controller architecture protects against local faults and performance issues, and

hardware redundancy eliminates all active single points of failure, no matter how

unlikely, to provide the highest level of reliability and data availability.