Hitachi Virtual

Storage Platform
Technical Overview
September 2010

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AGENDA
Data center transformation
Whats new, whats different
3D scaling architecture
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform physical description
Feature drilldown
Summary

Data Center Transformation

Physical,
Legacy Environment

Transition to Virtual
Environment
Reduce capital and
operational expenditures
Increase flexibility to be more
responsive to the business
Improve service levels

From Managing Infrastructure Technology

To Providing Infrastructure Services

Silos of independent physical devices

Virtualized

Manage physical devices independently

Automated

Closed, inflexible monolithic environment

Cloud-ready

Costly, legacy systems

Sustainable

Industry Leading Results

Industrys
Highest
Performance

3D

Most External
Virtualized
Capacity

Only 3D scaling
40% Higher
Density

15x Larger
Volume Size

Twice the
Connectivity

Automated
Dynamic
Tiering

New

September
2010
48% Less
Power
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VMware VAAI
Integration

3D Scaling Architecture vs. Others

Optimized
Separate application data and control
data
+
Volume components and specialized
offload ASICs
+
Write mirrored global memory;
Variable bandwidth
+
Switching interconnects with
messaging latency (nanoseconds)
+
High density packaging; Selectable
increments of specialized controller,
cache, host and disk I/O blades
+
Full array virtualization features;
Compatible with external storage
Full volume and sub-volume tiering
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Enterprise wide consolidation

Mission critical volatile workload

Commodity
Common application data and control path
+
Off the shelf components and processors
+
Mirrored global distributed memory; Fixed
bandwidth
+
Switching interconnects with messaging
latency (microseconds)
+
Midrange packaging; Dual controller
increments with fixed cache, host and disk
I/O ports
+
Partial array virtualization features
compatibility; Full volume tiering
Application with linear growth of
capacity and performance

Evolution of an Architecture

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Hitachi Universal Storage
Universal
LightningStorage
9900V Platform
Platform 9900
V/VM 2007 - 2011
2004
2002--2007
2005
2000
2003
Continuous enhancement in bandwidth, connectivity and scalability
Efficient global cache management
New 3D scaling architecture
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VSP Architectural View Configuration

Virtual Storage Director blades 32 cores

2 to 48Virtual
Storage Director blades 8 to 16 cores
24 FED blades with 192 ports
2 to12 FED blades with 16 to 96 ports
16 cache adapters with 1,024GB cache
2 to 8
cache adapters with 32 to 512GB cache
16 BED blades with 64 SAS links
0 to 4
BED blades with 0 to 32 SAS links

3D Scaling Architecture
5th generation network
crossbar switch
New control memory
architecture
2.4x OLTP performance
Greater connectivity and
choice
79% increase in
bandwidth
Scale up, scale out, scale
deep growth path
2x single image global
cache
Backward compatible
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Control Memory Architecture Latency

Hierarchy
Latency reduction driven by new architecture

Distributed

8x

Control
Control
memory
Control
memory
4 memory
GB Control
memory
VSP

Centralized
28 GB Control
memory
USP V

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Single Image Global Cache with Dynamic Cache
Assignment

Efficient cache management executed by each virtual storage director

Global cache is available to any virtual storage director
No storage and forward messaging overhead

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3D Scaling: Scale Up
Increase performance,
capacity and connectivity
tightly coupled through a
global cache to meet
increasing server demands.

Solution Capabilities
Host servers can access all the resources that are
dynamically added to the base configuration.
All the resources can act as one system for
maximum performance and capacity.
Managed as one common pool of resources for
more efficient utilization of resources
Dynamically scale for performance, capacity,
connectivity without disruption

Business Value
Industrys highest OLTP performance for open and
mainframe environments.
Grow from a small data center footprint 19 rack
Front to rear airflow for most efficient floor planning
Highest density storage using 2.5 drives
Host transparent migration from/to multivendor
storage at 80 percent less effort and cost

3D
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3D Scaling: Scale Out

Solution Capabilities

Increase aggregate
performance, capacity,
throughput, and connectivity
by dynamic allocation of
storage resources to satisfy
multiple distributed host
server requirements.

Build out the storage system by combining

multiple units into a single logical system
Dynamically scales out to support the needs
of different servers by prioritizing the
common storage resources
Ensure safe multitenancy and quality of
service through partitioning of cache and port
address space.

Business Value
Tailor for increasing workloads without
compromise
Consolidate resources for virtual server
environments
3D
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Highest data center density and lowest power

consumption for the capacity stored

3D Scaling: Scale Deep

Storage virtualization can
provide a third dimension of
scaling for consolidating
externally attached storage
systems with virtual servers.

Solution Capabilities
External storage joins the storage pool with all
the functionality of the storage system
Offloads less demanding data to lower cost
external storage
Simplifies management of external storage with
common management, data protection, and
search
Allows use of existing or legacy assets over
200 storage systems and up to 255PB

Business Value
Increase value and useful life of existing assets
Reduce OPEX costs through a common
management framework
3D
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Reduce CAPEX using lower cost tiers of

external storage

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Rack Structure

The maximum number of racks is 6:
2 control chassis and 16 drive chassis
Controller 1

Controller 0

HDD (2.5)

1 control
chassis
0 - 1,024

2 control
chassis
0 - 2,048

HDD (3.5)

0 - 640

0 - 1,280

Ports

16 - 96*

16 - 192*

Cache

Up to 512GB**

Up to 1,024GB**

* All channel configuration, * *v02

Rack-12

2,006mm

Rack-11
Rack-10
Rack-00
3,610mm

Rack-01
Rack-02

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1,100mm

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Rack Structure

42U Rack (19inch)

42U 19 inch rack

Reduces width 20% from Universal
Storage Platform V
14U control chassis cabled from the rear
Fan thermal control has 3 levels to reduce
noise
2,006mm

13U

13U

Control Chassis

14U
14U

1,100mm
610mm
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Front

Rear

Airflow Efficiencies: Enabling Hot/Cold Rows

Return Air Plenum

Hot
Aisle

Cold
Aisle

Hot
Aisle

Raised Floor

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Increased overall airflow while requiring less powerful fans

Front to back flow results in more even and consistent airflow

Configuration provides more effective use of hot/cold rows

Most Flexible Building Block

Scale up processing power and cache bandwidth
Virtual Storage
Directors x 4

Front view

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Adapt

Highly granular scalability

Virtual Storage Director

Main processors and operational
control data memory
Stores and manages internal
operational metadata and state
Array groups, LDEVs, external LDEVs,
runtime tables, mapping data for
various software products

Overall state of the system stored,

referenced and executed
Distributed to the appropriate I/O
offload processors

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Single Image Global Cache With Dynamic Cache Assignment

Data Cache System (Global Cache)
Caches user data blocks from drives via the
BED during a read
Caches data from the FED as part of a data
write operation
All write data is mirrored in cache
Only one copy of cached data when performing
read operations
Up to 128GB of data cache and a total of
512GB in a single control chassis
2 chassis can contain 1TB of cache memory
Non-volatile data protection
Back up cached user data
Also used to protect meta data
Allows for three copies: one operational
and two backup copies (mirrors)
Backed up to an onboard flash drive

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Most Flexible Building Block

Scale Up Connectivity, Capacity, Bandwidth
Front End Director X 4

Back view

Back End Director X 2

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Interconnected directors deliver tailored

scalability
Independently grow

Back End
Director X 2
Front End
Director X 4

Back End Director and Front End Director Pairs

Operational control data is distributed to L2 memory
Data accelerator processors

Transfer data to and from cache

Execute host command requests

Dual core, special purpose I/O processors built into a unique data accelerator ASIC
Designed to accelerate I/O and operational performance
Offload latency sensitive processing tasks directly onto the BEDs and FEDs

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Virtual Storage Director Advantages

Scaling Throughput
USP V

Low
work
load

5%
40%

Perform both host I/O

processing and copy
processing (Async
processing) in each core

5%

5%

30%

30%

Front end director

5%
20%

Total : 140%
Host I/O : 120%

Back end director

VSP

VSD

Copy processing
Perform copy
processing (Async
processing) in a
dedicated core
40%

40%

40%

VSD cores for host I/O

15%

Core for async processing

75%

50%
85%

100%

80%

100%

100%
50%

Total : 400%
Host I/O : 350%
Front end director

Back end director

No change in operating rate of MP used for host I/O and for PP

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Total : 140%
Host I/O : 120%

20%

5%

100%

20%

VSD

20%

Heavy
work
load

Host I/O processing

VSD cores for host I/O

Total : 400%
Host I/O : 350%

Mixed core

Throughput is not changed by separation of cores

USP = Universal Storage Platform VSP = Virtual Storage Platform

Virtual Storage Director Advantages

Scaling Throughput
USP V
Low
work
load

5%
40%

5%

5%

30%

30%

Target MP

5%
20%

Initiator MP

VSP

Average
response: Small
Note that when
large copy
processing
takes place
during host I/O
processing, I/O
with large
response is
mixed.

VSD

Host I/O processing

Copy processing

40%

40%

40%

20%

Average response:
Small
Response is stable
because host I/O
processing and copy
processing are not
mixed.

VSD cores for host I/O Core for async processing

VSD

Heavy
work
load

When the average operating

rate exceeds a threshold
(ex:50%), inflow of host I/O
processing starts in core used
for async processing.

50%

60%

55%

65%

20%

VSD cores for host I/O

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20%

Mixed core

Average response:
Medium
I/O response of
mixed cores
becomes large, but
no impact of mixed
cores because all
MPshave heavy load

Virtual Storage Director Advantages

Impact on micro-code exchange
FED

FED

BED

BED

FED

Data
Data Accelerator
Accelerator

PP
processing

FED

FED

24Because

BED

FED

HOST IO
processing
HOST IO
processing

BED

BED

FED

BED

BED

VSD pair

Microcode
Microcode
exchange
exchange

HOST IO
processing

PP PP
processing
processing

HOST IO
processing

FED

FED

Data
Data Accelerator
Accelerator

VSD pair

Data
Data Accelerator
Accelerator
VSD pair

BED

Data
Data Accelerator
Accelerator

VSD pair
HOST IO
processing

FED

Perform micro-code exchange per MP

Since MP is independent of Port, MPPK continues
processing IO during micro-code exchange.

BED

BED

Data
Data Accelerator
Accelerator

Microcode
Microcode
exchange
exchange

HOST IO
processing

HOST IO
processing

PP PP
processing
processing

HOST IO
processing

PP PP
processing
processing

Microcode
Microcode
exchange
exchange

HOST IO
processing

Microcode
Microcode
exchange
exchange

PP PP
processing
processing

During micro-code exchange of core dedicated to

PP processing, other core becomes a core
dedicated to PP processing and takes over the
processing

Perform micro-code exchange per 1 core

During micro-code exchange of core
dedicated to PP processing, other core
takes over the processing

VSD pair

HOST IO
processing

HOST IO
processing

Because MP is independent of Port, no

impact on other port during micro-code
exchange

virtual storage director (VSD) is independent of FED and BED port, no impact on QoS during microcode exchange

Hard Disk Drive Support

Worldwide HDD Shipment for Enterprise Applications
By Interface, 2009 - 2014

Worldwide performance Optimized HDD for Enterprise Applications

Average price per Gigabyte Form Factor, 2009 - 2014

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2.5 drive cost crosses over 3.5

SAS interface becomes dominant
Fibre channel will decline on performance drives
Flash drives for performance alternative

Comparison: Universal Storage Platform V Fibre Channel

Loops vs. Virtual Storage Platform SAS

Universal Storage Platform V with 64 Fibre

Channel (FC) loops 4 FC loops per
controller
4 FC loops per back end director
Half duplex arbitrated loops
32 FC loops pair at 4 Gb/s

Virtual Storage Platform with 64 SAS links

8 SAS paths per back end director blade
32 full duplex links per control chassis
64 SAS links at 6 Gb/s
Chassis are connected point-to-point
SAS and SATA can be intermixed
Controller 1

Expander

Enclosures
15 Disks

4 SAS
Links

4 SAS
Links

SAS
HDD
Slot 0

SAS
HDD
Slot 1

SAS
HDD
Slot 2

SAS
HDD
Slot 3

SAS
HDD
Slot 4

4 SAS
Links

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SAS
HDD
Slot 14

4 SAS
Links

Expander
Controller 0

SAS
HDD
Slot 13

Most Flexible Building Block

Latest Disk and Flash Drive Technology
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3.5 in drives x 40 x 2
or
2.5 in drives x 64 x 2

Increases capacity per square foot

Decreases power and OPEX
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Principal Characteristics

VSP minimum

VSP
maximum

USP V

VSP vs.
USP V

Number of Drives

1280/ 2048

1152

+77%

Virtual Capacity

255PB

247PB

+3%

FED Ports(8G)
FC, FICON, FCoE(1)

16 (FC)

FC4 224 / FC8

112(2)
FICON4 112
64 (FC-AL 4G)

+70% (FC8)

BED Links(6G)

192 (FC) (2)

192 (FICON) (2)
96 (FCoE)
64

Cache Size

32 GB

1TB (1)

512GB

2x

Cache Protection

Flash (+ battery)

Flash (+ battery)

Batteries

Virtual Storage Director(3)

Not Available

Chassis Internal
Bandwidth (Data and
Control GB/s)
Power Consumption
(Fully Configured)

128/64

68/39

+79%

30 KW (one phase)

33.2 KW (three
phase)

-48% (W/TB
600GB HDD)

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(1) At v02 (2) All channel configuration (3) Orderable in clustered pair

+50%

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Performance comparison Backend Mix(60:40)
8kB [IOPS]

Mix (60:40 Read/Write ratio)

2.4x
3x

Preliminary results
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Performance comparison Backend 8kB
[IOPS]

Reads

Writes

2.7x

1.9x

3x

Preliminary results
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4.6x

Hitachi Command Suite v7

3D Management
Manage Up, Manage Out and
Manage Deep

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3D Management: Manage Up
Unified management scales for the largest infrastructure and application
deployments
Storage Tiers

Data Heat
Index
High
Activit
y Set

Solution Capabilities

Normal
Workin
g Set

Automate data placement for higher

performance and lower costs
Ability to manage up to 5M logical objects
and 255PB of virtualized capacity
Manage large storage resource
management deployments with agentless
technologies
Scale up virtual server deployments by
eliminating shared resource contention

Business Value

Quiet
Data
Set

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Significant CAPEX and OPEX savings by

moving data to lower cost tiers
Increase storage utilization up to 50%
Easily align business application needs to
the right cost infrastructure

3D Management: Manage Out

Solution Capabilities
Single management
framework with the breadth
to manage storage, servers
and the IT infrastructure

Unified management for block, file, and

content across all Hitachi storage
Common management of virtualized
heterogeneous storage assets
Endto-end visibility and correlation of
applications, virtual machines, virtual servers,
and logical storage devices for traditional and
VMware environments
Roadmap to comprehensive IT management
system starting with orchestration layer

Business Value
Properly monitor and plan resource needs for
virtual server farms
Consolidate multivendor storage management
Integrated, open solution with orchestrated
management lowers complexity and costs
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3D Management: Manage Deep

Deep integration within Hitachi Command

Suite for the highest level of operational
efficiency to manage the complexities of
todays data centers
Network

Solution Capabilities

Consistent implementation of
management operations to
reduce human errors
Persistent logical grouping for
efficient management practices
Service level management
incorporating both capacity and
performance
Common GUI, usability, data
repositories and task workflows

Business Value

Simplify operations with up to

50% fewer management
operation steps
Reduce manual provisioning
and reporting processes
Reduce IT deployment times
and risks significantly and gain
business agility

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Improved Scalability and Performance:

Enhanced Management Performance
Improved management performance with parallel refreshes of
managed subsystems

Test results show parallel refreshes improves refresh speeds by 6 times

HDS lab tests with 12 subsystems refreshed in parallel versus sequential

Sequential
Refresh

Parallel
Refresh

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1500

2000 (Sec)

Hitachi Command Suite: Core Storage Management

Business View of Storage infrastructure

Policy manager for Tiered Storage

Policy Manager for Replication

Heterogeneous Resource Services

VM Server Reporting Services

Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter

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Performance Problem Management Services

Heterogeneous Reporting Services

Storage Configuration Services

Backup Reporting Services

Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Virtualize devices into a pool of capacity
and allocate by pages

HDP Volume
(Virtual LUN)

Dynamically provision new servers in

seconds
Eliminate allocated but unused waste by
allocating only the pages that are used

HDP Pool

Extend Dynamic Provisioning to external

virtualized storage

LDEVs

LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEVLDEV LDEV

Convert fat volumes into thin volumes by

moving then into the pool
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Response Time (ms)

Optimize storage performance by

spreading the I/O across more arms

100
80
60
40

716% more transactions

20
0

1,000

2,000

3,000
4,000
Transactions (IOPS)

Single LDEV

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Windows LVM

5,000
HDP Pool

6,000

7,000

Today: Automated Data Mobility

Two layers of data mobility
Infrastructure layer or block level

Tier 0

Object layer or file level

Enterprise SLC Flash has 100,000

write/format cycles

Tier 1

Wear leveling, error recovery, spares

Use virtualization and data

mobility tools to move (or reprovision) the volume without
disruption to any other pool or
tier based on

Tier 2

Promotion or demotion
Consolidation or migration
SLO, performance or cost change

Automated with policy based

management
Based upon pre-set SLAs
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Infrastructu
re/
block level

Object/fi
le
level

Page Level Tiering

Different tiers of storage are now in

POOL A
EFD/SSD
TIER 0

one pool of pages

Data is written to the highest
performance tier first

Last Referenced

TIER
SAS1

As it becomes less active it

migrates to lower level tiers
If activity increases it will be
promoted back to a higher tier
Since 20% of data accounts for
80% of the activity, only the active
part of a volume will reside on the
higher performance tiers.

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Last Referenced

TIER
SATA2

Flash Disks

Very high performance for critical

applications
70x random reads, 14x random writes
50% reduction in power and cooling
Currently 10 times higher cost than HDD
Optimize use of flash with dynamic tiering
Eliminate waste of allocated unused flash
capacity with Dynamic Provisioning

Flash

Minimize flash with page level tiering of hot

spots

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HDD

Hitachi Storage Management Software VMware

Integration

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Hitachi Storage Management Software and VMware

Simplify Administration. Reduce Risk. Improve Service Levels.

Availability

Performance
and Capacity
Reporting
Advanced
Configuration
and Management

Base Software

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vSphere 4.1 Default Multipathing Plug-in (Round Robin)

Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager

Hitachi Tuning Manager VMware Plug-in

Hitachi Command Director VMware Plug-in

Hitachi Device Manager VMware Plug-in

Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering VAAI

Hitachi Storage Navigator 2

Hitachi Basic Operating System V

vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

Fast/Full
Fast/Full Copy
Copy (Xcopy)
(Xcopy)

Block
Block Zeroing/Write
Zeroing/Write Same
Same
10x
10x less
less I/O
I/O for
for common
common tasks
tasks

Eliminate
Eliminate redundant
redundant write
write commands
commands
Tell
Tell the
the array
array to
to repeat
repeat via
via SCSI
SCSI
commands
commands
Provisioning
Provisioning

10x
10x faster
faster VM
VM deployment,
deployment, clone,
clone,
snapshot
snapshot and
and storage
storage vMotion
vMotion

Leverage
Leverage array
array ability
ability to
to mass
mass copy,
copy,
snapshot
and
move
blocks
via
snapshot and move blocks via SCSI
SCSI
commands
commands

Note:
Note: This
This is
is not
not for
for HDP
HDP storage
storage reclamation
reclamation
using
the
UNMAP
command
using the UNMAP command

Hardware
Hardware Locking
Locking Offload
Offload
10x
10x more
more VMs
VMs per
per data
data store
store

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Stop
Stop locking
locking LUNs
LUNs and
and start
start only
only locking
locking
blocks
blocks

Hitachi
Hitachi Dynamic
Dynamic Provisioning
Provisioning
(HDP)
(HDP)
Provide
Provide on
on demand
demand storage
storage in
in the
the
data
data store
store pool
pool
HDP
HDP storage
storage pools
pools

Hitachi Tuning Manager

Benefits

Solution
Mapping for VMs, datastores,
storage resources, etc.
VM resources are displayed in the
navigation tree of main console

Reduced number of clicks for

faster performance analysis in
the VMware environment
Capacity planning for VMware

Datastore capacity metrics

VMware Resource Correlations

Storage
Resources

Datastore

ESX Server

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VM

LDEV

Integration

Integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Leveraging storage array based replication: Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR) and
Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication (TC)
Disaster recoveryis major part of VMware message
VMware SRM integration shipped September 2008
Primary Data Center
APP

APP

APP

APP

OS

OS

OS

OS

Recovery Site

TC / HUR

APP

APP

APP

OS

OS

OS

OS

ESX

ESX

Servers

Servers

Replication
Replication

SI

Benefits:
Minimal additional hardware
Disaster recoveryindependent of
application and operating system
Existing disaster recovery applies
to VMware

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APP

High Availability Manager Direction with VMware

vMotion Anywhere
vMotion of workloads across
vCenter instances within the
datacenter, across campus and
metro distances, and across long
distances
Full orchestration of VM movement
(vCenter and solution configuration,
storage and live state )
Integrate with existing replication
and mirroring technologies to
minimize storage movement
Management through Site Recovery
Manager

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High Availability Manager vMotion Anywhere Support Using

Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager on ESX*

Built on Hitachi High Availability

Manager

Enables VMware vMotion

Anywhere

Built on active-active storage

controller with host using Hitachi
Dynamic Link Manager owner and
non-owner path management
configuration

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Thick, thin or virtualized volume

failover to provide continual access
to data stored on both internal and
virtualized storage without requiring
a restart of the host-based
application

Owner
path

Owner
path
Non-owner
path

Owner path

Owner path

Virtualized Storage

Data Resilience Challenges Are Multifaceted

Storage control clustering

Out of region and multiple data center strategies
Completely Duplicated/
Interconnected Recovery Site

More

Different types of
data require different
levels of protection

Remote Disk Mirroring

Remote PiT Mediated Copy

Importance of Data

Disk-to-Disk Backup and Recovery

Local Disk Mirroring
Electronic Vaulting
Tape Offsite
Tape Onsite

Storage Security

More

Am

Virtualization

of ou
Da nt
ta

Immediate
Less
Delayed

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Less

Recovery Time

Risk assessment
required to evaluate
business criticality
and cost to recover
Apply data security
technology for data
integrity and
compliance

Hitachi Data Resilience Helps You Do More With Less

Hitachi Data Systems is the first and only vendor to provide these
controller based offerings, designed to optimize your storage investment
Lower RPO
Lower bandwidth cost

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v
i
n
U
icato
Repl

Lower CAPEX and

OPEX
Lower migration cost
Lower application
downtime
Simplified
management
Easy movement
between tiers

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Offloads CPU processing

and optimizes bandwidth
through disk journals with
unique pull technology
Zero application
downtime for enterprise
storage in open
environments

High
Availability
Manager
Virtual
Storage
Platform

Virtualization that
leverages common engine
for internal and external
replication on open and
mainframe systems

Four Data Center Multitarget and Cascade

Hitachi Universal Replicator and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Combination of 3 data center multitarget

and 3 data center cascade
Phase 1 initial release includes:

Configuration 1x1x1x1
Support intermix of Universal Storage Platform V/VM
and Virtual Storage Platform
No delta resync support
No extended consistency group (EXCTG) support

Solution support

HDS provides 1st and 2nd level support

Hitachi provides 3rd level support

Phase 2 will include:

Increase the number of storage device per site

Add EXCTG support
Consider how to best to implement delta resync
Delta resync within 3 data center multitarget
configuration
Delta resync between both Hitachi Universal
Replicator target sites

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Three Data Center Multitarget

Hitachi Universal Replicator Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform

In-region
Recovery Data
Center

Primary Data Center

Hitachi TrueCopy Remote

Replication for synchronous
remote copy

JNL
Primary Data Volumes
(Synchronous)

Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform

Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform

Journal read requests

Primary Data Volumes

JNL

JNL

Primary Data Volumes

(Asynchronous)

Journal data transfers

Out of Region Remote Data Center

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Hitachi Universal Replicator asynchronous remote copy

Four Data Center Multi-target and Cascade

Hitachi Universal Replicator Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

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Encryption Support Updates

All Virtual Storage Platforms are
encryption capable
Every BED has an encryption capability
built in
Needs to be enabled by software
license key

New encryption mode of operations

XTS-AES 256 bit encryption

Expanded key support

32 keys per array
Encryption as access control
RAID Group 1

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RAID Group 2

RAID Group 3

Other Encryption Benefits

Controller-based encryption for at-rest data
Targeted for customers who require
confidentiality protections for data residing
on media (not intended to be the primary
confidentiality measure)
Encryption is performed in hardware with
no degradation in throughput
Any media type internal to Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform is supported
Simplified and integrated key management;
no external key management required
Green encryption

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Storage Management View of Directory Authorization

Storage Navigator

Active Directory

RADIUS
Storage
Administrator

Storage
Storage
Administrator
Administrator

Storage
Administrators

Security
Security
Administrator
Administrator

Security
Administrators

Storage
Maintenance
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Storage Admin

Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform

Maintenance
Maintenance

Storage
Administrators

Security
Administrators

Storage
Maintenance

Resource Groups
Next generation version of
Virtual Partition Manager
Allows greater

Resource Group 2
Port

Port

Resource Group 3

Port

Port

Port

Resource Group 4

administration granularity
Flexible partitioning
Multitenancy

Host Group

Host Group

Host Group

Host Group

LDEV

LDEV

LDEV

LDEV

Cloud
Resource Group 1

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Parity Group

Parity Group

Storage Admin A

Storage Admin B

Virtual Storage Platform Benefits

Reliable

Built on a unique heritage of market

leading innovations
Includes advanced data protection and
high availability capabilities
A proven services organization and
network of partners reduce migration risk

Dynamic

Adapts easily to your changing business

and IT requirements
Automates data tiering dynamically
Scales in 3 architectural dimensions a
capability no other vendor offers

Open

Supports a wide variety of multivendor

storage, operating systems and data
types
Supports heterogeneous server
virtualization environments

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