Tuesday, October 26, 2010

New HDS storage system can be expanded access to high-end performance

New HDS storage system can be expanded access to high-end performance

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) release of the new high-end storage systems VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), storage virtualization architecture shift to expand the level of design, you can merge two units to expand the access control chassis performance.




The basic architecture includes a set of VSP 3 sets of cabinets, from the control box, hard shell composed of chassis and cabinet, with the previous generation of storage systems USP (Universal Storage Platform) compared to the control box FCoE more communication interfaces, and the user if to expand access performance, up to 2 sets can be combined to support the control box 6 sets of cabinets, and 1TB of cache capacity. In addition to an additional 2.5-inch hard disk enclosure hard disk slot, but also shift to the way point in series SAS hard to address the way previous generations of the cascade loop caused by radio problems.



Extension of the previous generation virtualization capabilities USP, VSP can be integrated with other brands of storage systems, and that all types of hard drives such as SSD, SAS, SATA, and the entire deployment into a hierarchical storage architecture, the system automatically by the built-in access to information on the pages most frequently SSD hard drive, do not often drawn on the SAS or SATA hard disk storage system can improve operational efficiency.



And VSP with storage management software for the Hitachi Command Suite version 7 and can be integrated with other brands of storage resources, and compatible with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and other software.