HITACHI INFORMATION FORUM 2012

HDS TECHNOLOGY
UPDATE
NGUYEN ANH TU - SOLUTION MANAGER

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation 2012. All Rights Reserved.

HITACHI VSP

Industrys
Highest
Performance

3D

Most External
Virtualized
Capacity

Only 3D scaling

40% Space
saving

Hitachi Command
Suite software

50% Cooling

4-DC
replication

48% Less
Power

VMware vMotion
Anywhere

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform With Flash Acceleration

Now Exceeds 1,000,000 IOPS

3X TIMES PERFORMANCE

WITHOUT A BOX SWAP

Looking Into The Future

Who will lead the pack in the enterprise market?
Market incumbents

Market challenger

One type fit all flash media form factor

Tailored flash media form factor

Commodity flash controller

Specialized flash controller based on

access pattern and workload

Lowest unit cost

5 years endurance with limits

Lowest bit cost, best performance,

environmental and highest density
>5 years endurance for enterprise workload

Hitachi Data Systems Internal and Hitachi TrueNorth Partner Confidential

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

What Does Flash Acceleration Do?
Raise Hitachi VSP scalability limit with new express host I/O processing
Increase flash media throughput with higher thread counts
scalability

Improve wide stripping scalability with HDD

Increase virtual storage director
(VSD) random I/O throughput

Lower IO response time

Flash Acceleration

Eliminates I/O latency

from SAN storage
Consolidate more

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform With Flash Acceleration

Benefits
Without Flash Acceleration

With Flash Acceleration

Lower $ per IO

Improved quality of IO

Smaller system footprint

STORAGE MIGRATION HYPE VS. REALITY:

VENDOR MESSAGING

SOUNDS EASY?
BUT THERE IS A LOT MORE
Requires comprehensive
understanding of environment
Host performance
Requires reboot due to path
management software installation
Does not support clustered hosts

COMBINE PEOPLE, PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGY

TO REDUCE DATA MIGRATION COST AND RISK
Industry Average

COMPARISON OF METHODS

CROSS-PLATFORM

Tomorrow

HOSTBASED
MIGRATION

REPLICATION
TECHNOLOGIES

HITACHI UVM
BLOCK
VIRTUALIZATION

NONDISRUPTIVE
MIGRATION
TO VSP

(any to any)

Y (USP and
USP V to
VSP)

APPLICATION DOWNTIME
PER SERVER

2hrs

2-3 hrs

<30 min

None

NUMBER OF OUTAGES

None

IMPACT ON SERVER
PERFORMANCE

High

None

None

None

CLUSTERED HOST SUPPORT

Yes

No

No

Yes

IT RISK

High

Medium

Low

Lowest

UVM = Hitachi Universal Volume Manager

VSP = Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
USP = Hitachi Universal Storage Platform

NONDISRUPTIVE MIGRATION TO VSP

PROCESS AND USER VIEW
VSP TECH REFRESH: 3 STEPS PROCESS

Key features

No path management
dependencies
Lower staging effort and risk

1. Virtualization of USP V links the

source LDEVs and PGR with target
2. Source volume identify takeover
is performed, target LDEV IDs
appear to the host as an
alternative path to the original
volume

3. Host transparent data migration

managed by VSP

LUN path
enabled
WWPN:PZ1

WWPN:PX1
WWPN:PX1

Automated
Configuration Transfer
WWPN:PX2

Multiple systems can be

consolidate into a VSP

LUN path
disabled

WWPN:PZ2

Support Clustered hosts

WWPN:PX1

LDEV
migration
LDEV 00:00
S/N xxxxxx
S/N
xxxxxx

Virtualized USP V

Zone A
Zone B

LDEV ID
LDEV 00:10:10

takeover

S/N yyyyyy

HITACHI VISION: YOUR NEXT MIGRATION PROJECT

CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

DATA
GROWTH

Unpredictable

COST

CAPEX-OPEX increase

COMPLEXITY

Many Islands of Storage

MOST UNSTRUCTURED DATA IS STATIC - UNCHANGING

Exabytes

Unstructured data and content depots are driving data growth

Source: IDC

UNSTRUCTED DATA GROWTH

80%
growth
per yr

CHALLENGES FACED BY UNSTRUCTURED DATA

Challenges

Too Much
Island Storage
to manage

Too Much
Data to
Backup

SOLUTION THEMES

Archive First
Back Up Less
Consolidate More

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REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY,

MANAGE GROWTH

As Easy As A-B-C

Archive first
40% reduction in storage cost

Back up less
65% reduction in backup cost

Consolidate more
Reduce proliferation and simplify management

40% reduction

65% reduction

in storage cost

in backup costs

TYPICAL ARCHIVAL PROJECTS

CDR
Email
Document
SharePoint

Oracle
SAP
Event Log
CCTV

Compliance / Governance
Satellite Maps

#3: CONSOLIDATION
TYPICAL ENVIRONMENT
SILOS OF APPLICATIONS
FILE EXCHANGE
SYSTEMS
SHAREPOINT SAP

WITH HDS STRATEGY

FILE EXCHANGE
SYSTEMS
SHAREPOINT SAP

ORACLE

SILOS OF STORAGE

POOL RESOURCES FOR EFFICIENCY AND SIMPLICITY

ORACLE

LOWEST TCO FOR CONSOLIDATION

70% higher capacity than nearest competition

16 X the file system sizes of nearest competition
125 X the number of files/directory vs. nearest competition
< Half the number of systems needed for performance

Best price/performance with lowest $/IOP

Upgrade to next two
generations
of to
products
by swapping blades
Less
hardware
manage

Less software license to buy

Less physical footprint in DC
Less power and cooling cost

SAVE AS YOU SCALE

= LOWEST TCO FOR CONSOLIDATION

SUMMARY

Archive First
Back Up Less
Consolidate More

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THANK YOU!