3300 ten thousand IOPS、39 Microsecond response delay 、99.999999% reliability 、4:1 Data space reduction rate 、 Carbon footprint certification …… When Hitachi Vantara Highlight a new generation of flagship high-end storage VSP 5200/5600 When the parameters of each performance of the series are exploding , It really shocked the industry .

There may be questions , In distributed storage 、 Software defined storage is popular today , There is also a need for high-end storage “ Traditional markets ” Continue to invest ？

The reality is , The innovation pace of high-end storage in recent years is much higher than that in the past . High end storage manufacturers have increased investment , Not only continuously enhance performance 、 reliability 、 Inherent advantages such as availability , Embrace the hybrid cloud more actively 、 Microservices 、 Emerging technology trends such as containers , Continuously improve its competitiveness .

Now , With the new generation VSP 5000 The series officially debuted ,Hitachi Vantara Once again elevate the high-end storage benchmark to a new level . We can also start from a new generation of high-end storage VSP 5200/5600 In the new changes of the series , Explore the internal logic and development trend of continuous innovation of high-end storage in the wave of digital transformation .

Why does high-end storage become... Again “ The bestselling ”

“ With the deepening of digitalization , The core business of banks is also changing , For example, the cloud teller business quickly became the core business of many banks during the epidemic ; What remains unchanged is the core business to IT Architecture Performance 、 High standards and strict requirements for reliability and availability .” A senior architect of a joint-stock bank said to big data online last year .

You bet , Under the general trend of increasing importance of data elements , Many excellent features of high-end storage are becoming more and more prominent .Bank4.0、 Autopilot 、 New applications in precision medicine and other industries 、 While the new scene explodes , Let more and more users re realize the value of high-end storage in the process of digital transformation , Make it the of the market again “ The bestselling ”.

The specific term , From the development trend of key business types , Whether it's a new scenario or an old application , The scale of its application 、 The amount of data generated and the requirements for data storage performance are different .

Take the bank's clearing business as an example , With small 、 high frequency 、 Massive mobile payment scenarios are becoming more and more popular , The volume of bank clearing business is increasing day by day , The capacity of high-end storage 、 Higher requirements are put forward for performance and reliability .

secondly , Energy conservation and emission reduction has become a global trend . at present , Data center energy consumption has accounted for... Of the world's total power consumption 3% And growing rapidly year after year , At the same time, electricity charges account for more than... Of the operating costs of the data center 50%. These factors are superimposed , It will accelerate the consolidation of the number of data center equipment and reduce the use of high-power components , Push users to find a way to bring low energy consumption 、 Efficient data storage scheme .

without doubt , The high-end storage equipped with flash drive will save energy and reduce emissions in the data center in the future 、 Play an important role in reducing cost and increasing efficiency .

Third , Business digitalization 、 The trend of online is obvious , And increasingly frequent data leaks and malicious attacks , This makes enterprises have high requirements for business continuity and data security in digital transformation ; High end storage is about business continuity 、 reliability 、 The advantages of usability and security are undoubtedly favored by users .

Last , Hybrid cloud environment will become the first choice of infrastructure in the future , The flow of data will become the new normal for all users , It will also bring data management 、 Data manipulation 、 Storage resource configuration 、 Application optimization 、 Equipment management and a series of complex management work , This is bound to give full play to the intelligent features of high-end storage .

As the saying goes , Market demand is the biggest catalyst for product technological innovation . Now , The huge changes in market demand have opened up new space for high-end storage , and Hitachi Vantara It is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive manufacturers in the market . In recent years ,Hitachi Vantara Of VSP 5000 series , In performance 、 reliability 、 Usability 、 Intelligent 、 Energy conservation and emission reduction have set a new benchmark , It has injected unprecedented vitality into the development of high-end storage .

new generation VSP 5000 The series leads the trend

without doubt ,Hitachi Vantara new generation VSP 5200/5600 Series in high performance 、 High availability 、 Energy conservation, emission reduction and intellectualization lead the development trend of the industry .

The first is high performance .2019 year 11 month ,VSP 5000 The series debuted with 2100 ten thousand IOPS、70us Delay becomes the world's fastest storage array . Now , new generation VSP 5000 The series has higher performance 、 Higher elasticity 、 Higher availability ： the height is 3300 Ten thousand IOPS And as low as 39 Microsecond delay , Compared with the previous generation of products ,VSP 5600 Performance improvement 57%, Delay reduction 44%, Data reduction efficiency is improved 42%.

Some people can't help asking , new generation VSP 5000 What is the significance of the series to improve the performance to such a high level ？ The real reason is , Behind the increasing importance of data processing performance is the trend towards normalization of extreme peak scenarios , The frequency and scale of peak scenes continue to increase . Take the promotion scene of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China as an example , The massive trading peaks of the five major banks at double 11:00 have already exceeded tens of thousands TPS（ Number of transactions processed per second ）, Trading peaks tend to last 10-15 minute , It has a great test for the performance of storage .

Now , The promotion scenario is not exclusive to e-commerce , Like car media 、 Mobile phone brands 、 In order to be close to consumers, more and more industries such as banks have begun to build their own promotion scenarios , On average, an enterprise may have to face 4-5 Different promotion activities , It is a great challenge for data storage performance .

And a new generation VSP 5600 By borrowing from end to end NVMe Architecture design and innovation HIE technology , Have 3300 ten thousand IOPS、39 Performance of microsecond delay , And provide maximum IOPS Time of day , The fastest response time is 69 Microsecond ; Means that under extreme load , The delay is still very low , You can easily meet the performance requirements of various business scenarios .

In terms of business continuity and availability , except 100% Data availability and 99.999999% Reliability of the equipment , new generation VSP 5000 The series also improves the reliability and availability of the system at various levels , Continuously improve business continuity . for example ,Hitachi Vantara DIP (Data-In-Place) Replacement technology , Support online replacement of old controller with new controller , Replace one controller at a time , Until the system upgrade is complete ; And during the upgrade process , The back-end hard disk and data remain unchanged .

in addition , new generation VSP 5000 Series provides Hitachi modern storage assurance program (Hitachi Modern Storage

Assurance), Support enterprises to rely on data in place 、 Non disruptive upgrades for efficient migration , Avoid downtime , There is no need to cut off the workload , Minimize the impact of future hardware upgrades on business operations .

In terms of energy conservation and emission reduction , new generation VSP 5000 The four ideas of the series are worthy of extensive study in the industry ： firstly 、 Take the lead in adding carbon footprint certification to products , Provide carbon footprint data of products , So that users can know the carbon emission of products in time ; second 、 Adopt high-capacity full flash media , Reduce the number of mechanical discs and disc cages , Reduce overall power consumption ; Using data re deletion compression technology , Provide leading 4:1 Data reduction rate , Increase storage space and reduce power consumption ; Its 4 , A system supports multiple services at the same time , In order to reduce the number of equipment and reduce carbon emissions .

In terms of intelligence , new VSP 5000 The series is based on a new storage operation and maintenance platform Hitachi Ops Center, Using artificial intelligence (AI) And machine learning (ML) To enhance real-time monitoring and reporting , Unified 、 Simple automation suite , Let the fault alarm automatically 、 Data link performance 、 Automatically deploy storage resources and simplify data management , Provide cloud like 、 Light IT Operation and maintenance experience .

Review the development of high-end storage for decades , It always belongs to “ A small circle ”, Whether it's industry user groups or application scenarios , Are relatively fixed . But with the deepening of digital transformation , Types of critical applications 、 Demand is changing significantly , In recent years, high-end storage has also begun to break the circle , To meet the new needs of various key applications . undoubtedly ,Hitachi Vantara new generation VSP 5000 The series is really “ goog ”, It points out the development direction of high-end storage with actual performance .

Digital transformation requires a more solid digital base

In China, , The role and value of the digital base of high-end storage will continue to show . With the rapid development of China's digital economy , Its scale and volume GDP The proportion continues to increase , Become the most dynamic economic form , This directly drives the digital transformation of many industries into the deep water area ; High end storage provides an opportunity for enterprise infrastructure to modernize , It also provides a guarantee for the continuous release of the value of data elements .

First , Digitalization brings infinite possibilities for business applications of enterprises , It's hard to fix the level of an application by using the previous application level . Especially considering China's Finance 、 telecom 、 Business volume of medical and other industries , A business is likely to become a key application in a short time . therefore , Infrastructure modernization is a hard demand , The infrastructure of many enterprises is moving towards hybrid cloud . In the process , High end storage undoubtedly brings opportunities for the construction of modern hybrid Cloud Architecture .

With VSP 5000 For example , Its architecture not only realizes horizontal expansion , It can also be extended vertically , It can be adjusted according to the change of demand ; And optimized for hybrid cloud infrastructure , Simplify the deployment and management of data architecture from edge to core to cloud , complete Google Anthos authentication , And with Red Hat OpenShift Integration , Support enterprises to carry out container level development on the new platform . Now? , Users can VSP 5000 The series is accessed as a service , Use it to manage Google、AWS or Microsoft Azure Capacity .

secondly , As data is written as a factor of production 《 Opinions on building a more perfect market-oriented allocation system and mechanism of factors 》 Wait for the documents , as well as 《 Data security law 》 And other laws and regulations have been promulgated and implemented in succession , Data value mining and high requirements for data security will become normalization . For many industry users , High end storage is undoubtedly an excellent platform for data value mining and data security , It is conducive to the continuous release of data value .

in fact ,Hitachi Vantara VSP 5000 The series has always been a benchmark , Not only dare to promise in the market 99.999999% Hardware reliability , It also includes 4:1 Data compression ratio of 、100% Data availability , All provide a solid guarantee for the realization of data value .

overall ,Hitachi Vantara new generation VSP 5000 Series is also a set of products that change the rules of the game . Thanks to years of hard work and accumulation in the field of high-end storage ,Hitachi Vantara Has been leading the development of this market segment . Facing the future , With the deepening of enterprise digital transformation , image VSP 5000 Series such digital base will certainly play a more significant value and role .