How can I simplify management to improve storage performance?

 　　Today, flash memory has become the de facto standard in the industry. Compared to mechanical hard drives, SSDs offer significant improvements in all aspects of performance, capacity, and density; especially in terms of speed. At the same time, flash memory has re-writable and non-volatile characteristics.

　　When flash memory was first introduced, it was expensive and difficult to integrate with existing storage products. However, as technology continues to innovate, flash memory prices continue to fall and application scenarios increase dramatically, allowing storage as an industry to keep up with diverse industries such as cloud computing, big data, 5G, and even become an important driving force to support application expansion.

　　As a result, IT departments want it to deliver both the benefits of SDD while increasing speed, achieving performance goals such as 100% application availability, superior data security, resiliency, and ensuring compliance. In addition, everyone wants it to integrate with private and hybrid clouds to provide greater flexibility.

　　Last year, Hitachi Vantara released a game changer in storage, the Hitachi VSP 5000 Series, bringing more desirable availability, high performance, high resiliency, and ease of use to the enterprise. the VSP 5000 can deliver up to 21 million IOPS. Delivering extremely low latency even as data surges to petabytes. This high-end storage powered by NVMe supports both containers and OpenStack, regardless of storage media. Paired with the updated storage virtualization operating system, Hitachi SVOS RF, the VSP 5000 Series delivers significant improvements in management efficiency and tangible productivity gains for users.

　　

　　With VSP third-party storage virtualization technology, enterprises can decouple storage from the physical world, improving uptime and opening up new possibilities for data centers.

　　The Hitachi Vantara solution's flash performance is optimized through a proprietary flash-aware I/O stack, enabling faster data access while improving storage and data utilization efficiency through adaptive inline data reduction.

　　At the same time, Hitachi Vantara's storage virtualization enables SVOS RF to use third-party all-flash and hybrid arrays for storage capacity, consolidating resources for higher ROI. this means that IT departments do not have to make a complete replacement when introducing new technologies, while still maintaining high front-end speeds for slower, less predictable arrays.

　　

　　Hitachi Ops Center is particularly useful in this model because it uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to help customers monitor the entire application data path from virtual machines to storage, enabling faster failure root cause analysis and automated remediation.

　　"We use automation to improve the speed and agility of common tasks such as virtual machine and storage provisioning and data migration. This will help free up staff time to focus on the business rather than getting bogged down in management in the IT infrastructure," He explains. For example, by choosing the VSP 5000 Series, enterprise application latency can be as low as 70 microseconds, while quality of service control still ensures that workloads maintain consistent performance.

　　Finally, with Hitachi SVOS RF, enterprises can use any combination of synchronous, asynchronous replication, and duplexing with two storage arrays that span the geographic boundaries of the data center. This opens up new opportunities and increases uptime, reliability and resiliency. chee Khye Chen concludes that the result of adopting Hitachi SVOS RF is improved performance, less hassle for IT departments and higher service levels.

　　"Even if the data center goes down, applications are not disrupted; because the VSP system can then seamlessly failover to other cluster nodes in a second data center," he says.

　　

　　Recently, Hitachi Vantara announced the expansion of its all-flash VSP E series based on NVMe architecture with the release of the new VSP E590 and VSP E790, dedicated to serving customers of all sizes - whose businesses are outpacing their existing infrastructure capabilities and need to support DevOps and more - bringing enterprise-class capabilities and benefits to customers of all sizes - whose businesses are outpacing their existing infrastructure capabilities and need to support modern business processes, including DevOps.

　　Hitachi Vantara has long been the industry benchmark for high-performance data storage," said Bobby Soni, president of Hitachi Vantara Digital Infrastructure. Today, we are further raising the bar in the midrange enterprise storage market. We're taking all the industry-leading features and intelligent software that fueled the VSP 5000's success in the marketplace and applying them to the new VSP E-Series midsize enterprise products, offering customers greater ease of use and more attractive pricing. At the same time, with the new Virtual Storage as a Service, we will further help customers reduce the burden of infrastructure management, allowing them to focus on the top priority of managing their business."

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