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Unified Storage Comparative Guide

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Choosing the Best Unified Storage Solution

for Your Organization
Comparative guide helps
identify requirements and
accelerate business goals
IT decision makers face a wide range of
unified storage options that offer significant
cost, performance and availability benefits
over traditional storage systems. While unified storage can help organizations overcome growth, complexity and management

challenges, capabilities can vary drastically

from company to company. We developed
this comparative guide to help IT executives
understand the current midrange unified
storage landscape so they can select the
solution that meets their current and future
storage requirements.

Hitachi Data Systems

Comparative Overview of Midrange

Unified Storage Models
This Comparative Guide to Unified Storage
Solutions illustrates the strength of Hitachi
Unified Storage 100 family systems relative
to comparative models available today.
Based on specifications, features, management and upgrades, Hitachi Unified Storage
offers clear IT and business advantages,
including:

Balanced scalability between system

capacity, data set size, replicated data

and performance
Better integration of data management

functions across the information lifecycle

Part of an integrated portfolio that can

be managed from a single point of

integration
Reduce capital expenses (CAPEX) and

operating expenses (OPEX)

C OMPARAT IV E OV E RV IE W O F MI D R A N G E U N I F I E D S TO R A G E MO D E LS
FEATURES

Hitachi
HUS 100

EMC
VNX

NetApp
FAS 3xxx

SPECIFICATIONS

Object Data Support

Controller type (symmetric active/active)
Native ISCSI
High maximum capacity (3PB)
48 drives or more, Dense trays
Max LUN size (>100TB)
FEATURES

Unified architecture
Native Auto-tiering
Controller-based dynamic load balancing
Data migration
Native deduplication
Native data compression
MANAGEMENT

Manage all models and families

Consolidated file & block rolled-up dashboard
Discover block and file configurations
UPGRADES

Nondisruptive microcode updates

Data-in-place upgrades within family
This chart provides a comparative overview only of midrange unified storage models functional capabilities.

IBM
V7000

HP
3PAR

HP
EVA

Specifications

Management

To maximize return on investment, organizations need a unified storage solution that

can easily grow along with their business.
Hitachi Unified Storage enables organizations to scale to a massive 3PB capacity
while employing dense trays to occupy a
relatively small data-center floor space.

A key to accelerating business goals is

selecting a unified storage solution that
can simply and efficiently manage all
dataincluding file, block and object
with consistent methodologies across the
information lifecycle. To streamline management, Hitachi Unified Storage uses consistent naming and logic, regardless of data
type, and provides consolidated management screens that allow all data types to
be viewed and managed from the same
screen.

At the same time, individual volumes and

file systems can be grown to unprecedented capacities rather than having to
break apart data sets if normal specification
limits are exceeded. Without the ability to
scale, organizations may have to purchase additional systems to meet storage
requirements.

Organizations can further simplify storage management with Hitachi Command

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Features
Unified storage solutions should enable
organizations to achieve the greatest value
from their technology investments through
improved storage efficiency, automation and
flexibility. For example, unlike most competitor solutions, Hitachi Unified Storage
provides a symmetric active/active controller that simplifies provisioning data to
applications, simplifies path management
and reduces OPEX. To optimize workflows
across controllers and avoid bottlenecks,
Unified Storage provides dynamic load
balancing between dual controllers, which
further reduces CAPEX and OPEX.
Unified Storage also offers a unified architecture that provides significant cost savings through the consolidation of multiple
data types on a single system. In addition,
the solution includes auto-tiering, which
optimizes price performance to deliver
the greatest value for disk drive and SSD
investments.

Suitea management platform that allows

all Hitachi Unified Storage models and other
Hitachi storage platforms to be managed
from a single pane of glass.

Upgrades
To boost efficiency and accelerate business
goals, customers need to upgrade systems and applications without disruption.
Hitachi Unified Storage is the only solution
that enables microcode updates without
interrupting host I/O via path failover and
failback.

Summary: Redefining Unified

Storage
Many organizations are turning to unified
storage to reduce costs and boost system
performance and availability. With several
midrange unified storage solutions available,
it is important to understand the capabilities that can provide the greatest benefits to
your business goals.

Contact Hitachi
For more information on how to unify your
storage using Hitachi Unified Storage,
and to take advantage of available programs and incentives, please contact your
Authorized Hitachi representative. Visit
www.hds.com

Hitachi Data Systems extends the definition of unified storage with a solution
that dynamically scales to accommodate
growth, lowers costs through consolidation and reduces complexity by managing
multiple data types from a single screen.
With Hitachi Unified Storage, organizations
can deploy storage that easily grows to
accommodate expanding requirements and
meet service level agreements for critical
business applications.

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