Hitachi Unified Storage VM All Flash System Comparative Guide

Comparative Guide Helps Identify Requirements and Accelerate Business Goals

Today’s enterprises face a wide range of flash storage options that offer clear benefits over traditional storage systems for many use cases. While flash-based storage solutions can help organizations improve performance and efficiency and lower costs, the capabilities of these systems can widely vary. Hitachi de-veloped this guide to compare available ben-efits and identify the solution that best meets current and future storage requirements.

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Choose the Best All Flash Unified Storage Solution for Your Virtualization Needs

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The Hitachi Unified Storage VM All Flash Comparative Guide illustrates the strength of Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) VM all flash system relative to comparable models available today. Based on specifications, features, management and upgrades, HUS

VM all flash system offers clear IT and business advantages, including:

■■ 500,000 IOPS and sub-millisecond response time, consistent performance

■■ Up to 380,000 IOPS for file sharing over NFS1

■■ 60% better cost per IO than similar disk-based systems—with less space and power

Comparative Overview of Entry-Level Enterprise All Flash Unified Storage Models

Scalable capacity

HitachiUnified

Storage VM

NetAppEF540

EMCXtremIO

NimbusData

ViolinMemory

IBMFlashSystem

720/820

PureStorage

NimbleStorage

Performance tuning and analytics

Public performance benchmarks

Automated storage tiering

Intelligent file tiering

Data deduplication

Data compression

Thin provisioning

Multiprotocol connectivity

Scalable file system

Single namespace

Data replication across distance

External storage virtualization

100% data availability guarantee

Online updates and serviceability

Host transparent data migration

Encryption

Ease of management through a single interface

VMware integration

Application plug-ins

Application-aware snap management

Snapshots and clones

Unified file, block and object data

Reference architectures and best practices

Upgradable to tiered storage

OVERVIEW COMPARISON OF ALL FLASH-STORAGE STORAGE MODELS

FEATURES HP 3PARStoreServ

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Ideal Adequate None This chart provides a comparative overview only of all flash storage models. 1 Using SPECsfs 2008 NFS benchmarks for 4X Hitachi NAS model 3090

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■■ 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

■■ Higher flash density and capacity than comparable SSD configurations

Double the Performance of Disk-Based Systems

HUS VM all flash system doubles the performance of hard disk-based systems and dramatically lowers response times. This system employs newly patented flash-optimized software and Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage which deliver 500,000 IOPS, sub-millisecond response time with consistent performance.

Compared to the commodity solid-state drives found in competitive systems, the flash memory design that Hitachi developed for Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage provides better perfor-mance, durability and capacity. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage speeds IO processing to increase flash device throughput. It delivers faster access to data for virtual desktop and e-com-merce applications. And it accelerates database, online transaction and ana-lytic processing (OLTP and OLAP) and messaging infrastructure performance.

Dramatically Improve Storage Economics

By doubling the performance of disk-based systems, HUS VM all flash system eliminates the need to over-buy and overarchitect to meet the requirements of high-performance

applications. HUS VM all flash system also delivers a 60% better cost per I/O than similar solid state drive-based systems, and it does so in less space.

While the cost per I/O makes flash a logical choice for many organiza-tions, maximizing the benefits of your flash purchase is critical for the best return on investment. With Hitachi Dynamic Tiering and thin provision-ing, you can allocate more bandwidth than you use in flash and copy, with-out incurring capacity overhead. To achieve even greater flash efficiency, you can add file deduplication to your organization’s unified system.

As the only all flash array with external storage virtualization capability, you can add HUS VM all flash into an overtaxed environment of older HDS or 3rd party storage and see immediate manage-ment and utilization benefits. Support for tiering to external storage enables companies to ensure their most impor-tant data sits in new flash capacity and extends the life of existing assets.

Boost Storage and Management Efficiency and Flexibility

In addition to improving performance and economics, HUS VM all flash system boosts storage efficiency by consolidating all data types in a high-performance, unified system. The all flash system doubles the den-sity of the solid state-drive-based HUS VM, in the same rack space.

To boost management efficiency, HUS VM all flash system is supported by Hitachi Command Suite, which auto-mates and simplifies management tasks for HDS solutions. This means administrators won’t have to learn a

TOP 10 REASONS TO CONSIDER HITACHI UNIFIED STORAGE VM ALL FLASH SYSTEM.

According to IDC, “For enter-prise customers, flash storage changes everything. It perma-nently transforms the speed of business and it makes real-time an expectation, not an aspira-tion.”2 Here are 10 reasons your organization should consider HUS VM all flash system to deliver on the real-time promise:

1. Blazing performance

2. Superior economics

3. Seamless integration

4. Unmatched reliability

5. Supreme flexibility

6. Unified management

7. Remarkable efficiency

8. Virtualize and turbocharge

9. Portfolio breadth

10. Here today, here tomorrow

2Janukowicz, Jeff, and Dan Iacono. IDC. Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments. February, 2013.

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new set of management tools to take advantage of all flash performance.

HUS VM all flash system can change along with the needs of your organiza-tion. For example, you may need an all flash, no-compromise performance system to address immediate chal-lenges, but as business requirements expand, you may want the econom-ics and management advantages of storage virtualization and dynamic tiering. With HUS VM, you can quickly adapt to change to a hybrid system, virtualize external storage and support any advanced Hitachi functionality.

Flash performance improvements are most beneficial when they support and integrate with key applications, hypervisors and operating environ-ments. And HUS VM offers application plug-ins, application-aware snap management (via Hitachi Application Protector) and deep virtual server integration to ensure your system is ready to boost performance, econom-ics and efficiency right from the start.

Reduce Risk, Maximize Availability

HUS VM all flash system continues the Hitachi tradition of uncompromis-ing quality, non-stop uptime and 100% data availability. With Hitachi patented flash modules that offer advanced dura-bility and online microcode updates or support for advanced replication, you are ready for 24/7 computing.

A wide range of flash-based storage systems are now available from a variety of vendors, with acquisitions, mergers

and buyouts continuing to change the flash vendor landscape. Rest assured, Hitachi offers a solution that provides all flash performance as well as a long-lasting, trusted partnership.

Summary

Many organizations are turning to all flash storage to reduce costs and boost performance. With sev-eral all flash solutions available, it’s important to understand the capa-bilities that can provide the greatest benefits for your business goals.

Hitachi Data Systems extends uni-fied storage with high density, high capacity all flash solution that will best suit your needs for today and the future. HUS VM all flash system enables organizations to gain advantages in performance, efficiency, cost and virtualization.

With Hitachi Unified Storage VM all flash system, organizations can deploy a more efficient storage envi-ronment that is flexible enough to address immediate business goals,

and can easily change to accom-modate evolving requirements.

Contacting Hitachi

For more information on how to transform your storage with Hitachi Unified Storage VM all flash, and take advantage of available pro-grams and incentives, please contact your authorized Hitachi represen-tative. Visit www.HDS.com

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