Virtual Storage Platform One BLOCK

Compact
Simple
Sustainable
Safe
Andrej Gursky
Solutions Consultant CEE, Hitachi Vantara
PosAm TechDays, 17.10.2024

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Virtual Storage Platform One

Achieve Total
Data Freedom
• Consume the right solution at the right time.
• Enable siloed solutions to interact with each other.
• Govern one platform while applications manage it.

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Today OS Trusted Experience Hybrid Cloud

Block Clear Sight

S Modern Fleet management
in the cloud
V Storage
Assurance
File O Ops Center
S Effective Fully featured
Capacity AIOps management
Guarantee software suite
Object
D
100% Data EverFlex
N Availability
As-a-service for
SDS
A Guarantee
infrastructure
consumption

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Virtual Storage Platform One Ecosystem

Enterprise Apps Databases Cloud Native Apps Edge Generative AI Analytics

EverFlex Control

Control
Plane

Embedded Clear Sight Ops Center Modern API

Data Perimeter

Public Cloud Software-Defined Appliance

Data
Plane

Block File Object MF

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Evolution of Capability

Virtual Storage Platform One Community

VSP One VSP One VSP One VSP One

File SDS Block File SDS Block File SDS Block File SDS Block

Cloud Block Cloud Block Cloud Block Cloud

Object SDS File Object SDS File

Mainframe

Early 2024 Mid 2024 2H 2024 2025/26

Launch Addition of Block Addition of Object Addition of Mainframe
Capability and SDS File Capability
Capability

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Virtual Storage Platform One B24/26/28

Block Storage
Appliance

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Virtual Storage Platform One
Block Storage Appliance

2U All NVMe Add up to 2

Controller with up to 72 additional drive
with 24 drives enclosures
drives

Get the
Statistics…
NVMe-o-FC Up to 1.8PBe
NVMe-o-TCP 32 host in 2U &
iSCSI & upto ports in 2U 10.5PBe
64GB FC possible

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Product Overview
• 3 New models - 2U NVMe AFA flash system VSP One Block
• Latest Intel Xeon Gen 4 (Sapphire Rapids) processor with PCIe Gen4
• New, always-on Compression Acceleration Engine1 & Algorithm Block 24 Block 26 Block 28

• End-to-end NVMe with 100G NVMe TCP and 64G FC-NVMe

• Increased NVMe drive scalability to 72 drives and faster Gen 4 drives
NVMe Expansion – 2 x 24 NVMe
• Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) equivalent to RAID6 levels of data
protection
• Increased front-end IO slots (up to 32 ports FC)
• QLC Media Support2 Ready

• Improved Ease of Use and Capabilities Dual controller w/ 24 internal NVMe

• Embedded GUI (VSP One Block Administrator) and Virtual Storage Scale
Out enhancements
• Thin Image Advanced Data and Ransomware Protection with Safe Snap
• Replication to VSP One in the Cloud 3

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Up to 3x ADR
• Supports self-install performance
improvement
Significant
compression
200% more
NVMe
33% more
front-end IO
(dep. on improvement scalability ports
• Extended maintenance model)

• Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance program from VSP E790/E590 and to

next-generation
1 HW accelerator available on Block 28 and Block 26
2 Dual-port QLC planned, availability Q2FY25
3 Availability TBD

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Hitachi Next Gen Technology

Dynamic Drive Protection Compression Accelerator Thin Imaged Advanced

• Distributed spare space and drive rebuild • 2nd Generation hardware offload • Dramatic performance improvements
• Single drive addition • FPGA with new compression algorithm • Data reduction for snapshot data
• Slot efficiency • Improved NQA data reduction ratio • Ransomware protections with Safe Snap

Connectivity Management Improvements Sustainability

• 100Gb NVMe TCP SmartNIC • Block Administrator with KMIP • Dynamic Carbon Reduction
• 25Gb iSCSI • Hardware Root of Trust • Platinum power supplies
• 64G & 32G FC • Clear Sight • Energy Star
• NVMe gen4 drive expansion • Ops Center • CFP certified

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Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP)

What’s New Drive Failure Behavior

• Up to x3 times faster RAID
What is DDP
Broken Broken
rebuild time with DDP*
• Configure a DDP
• Efficient investment is possible by group with any
adding one drive at a time. number of devices,
starting with a
• Reduce maintenance and Busy
minimum of 9
recovery time in the event of drive Spare
failure and improve reliability • Distribute data and Spare
spares to each drive, Traditional RAID VS DDP space

no spare drive
required • Spread rebuilds across multiple drives to
reduce rebuild time and recover faster
• Capacity can be
• Distributes I/O across multiple drives in
added in units of 1 the event of a drive failure, providing
drive stable performance
* VSP E790 (Traditional RAID : 24 drives) vs
VSP One Block28 (DDP : 24 Drives)

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Eco friendly

Power Saving FAN CPU

Fine Control Power Saving
Reduce environmental impact and running cost
• Smart power saving for HW components (FAN, CPU) Power Consumption
according to environment temperature and IO traffic Up to -17%

Configuration Flexibility Dynamic Data Protection

(DDP)
Make less materials (drives) for needed storage capacity
• Expand system capacity flexibly with one-drive increase ・・・
• Better Compression & Dedupe also means you need less Add 1 Drive

High Efficiency
2.7
Performance Efficiency
/
[IOPS/W] x
Minimize footprint by higher efficiency than competitors Capacity Efficiency
/
[TB/U] x 2.2
• Consolidate storage system by more than twice Power Efficiency
efficiency to competitors /
[W/TB] x 2.0
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VSP Sustainability Leadership

Carbon
Energy Automated Dynamic Carbon Modern Storage
Footprint of
Star Compression Reduction Assurance
Products
Switching

Ranked The only vendor Switch between Automatically Controller

number #1 for with entire in line and post lower power upgrades while
IOPS per circular process on the consumption extending
WATT economics fly on the fly media life
measured

38% Less CO2 Compared to Any Vendor

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Hardware Compression Accelerator Write(8KB)

C ache

• Compression Accelerator Module (CAM) is new hardware

Post Process
32KB comp

with new compression algorithm operating on up to 32K at a inline w

time 8KB comp

• Available on Block 28 and Block 26

• 4 x CAM on Block 28 w x y z wx yz

• 2 x CAM on Block 26

• Significant improvement in compression attainment and Write(32KB)(8×4KB sequential LBA)

performance particularly large block workloads

W X Y Z

inline
32KB comp
wx yz
Model Com press ion algorithm ADR Ra tio

VSP E790 ADR software 2.51:1

VSP E1090 ACLF (FMD) 2.62:1 wx yz

VSP One Block 28 and 26 ACLB (Updated hardware) 4.19:1

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Built-in Ransomware Protection & Fast Recovery

01 02

Improve Backup Ensure Business

Operations Continuity
Copy data without affecting Reduce recovery time with
production applications and create
immediate restores from point-
point-in-time data snapshots for
backup in-time data snapshot copies
Thin Image Advanced

03 04

Data Protection Reduce OPEX

Safe Snap (New in VSP One Block!)
Efficiency Costs
• Snapshot protection feature for floating device and SVOL mapped
floating device Enhance data protection Maximize disk utilization by
operations with always-available storing only reduced,
• Immutable and cannot be deleted until retention period has changed data blocks (up to
expired copies of production data 90% reduction!)
• Use case – ransomware protection

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 Encryption on by default

• Some customers have specific data sanitization requirements which are not debatable
• Comply and move on

• Many customers do not plan ahead, then reactively find a solution at the time of disposal
• Volume Shredder is not effective for flash media
• Third party sanitization before disposal is expensive, intrusive and time consuming
• Encryption before disposal is time consuming and wastes all the benefits of having data encrypted during the lifecycle
• Drive retention is done proactively but it is expensive and prevents analysis of failed drives

• Proactive encryption is the best sanitization option for most customers

• We plan to ship all systems with encryption enabled to provide a better out of box experience
• Customers who don’t want encryption can reformat on site or disable encrypted build via configurator
• Customers who want to use a Key Management Server to:
• To backup the encryption key do not need to re-encrypt
• To create the encryption keys will need to re-encrypt, but this is no more work than starting with an unencrypted system

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Secure firmware update
• VSP One B20 ESM supports bellow secure boot features.

oSecure Firmware Update

▪ ESM FW uses digital signature to verify the integrity and authenticity of all firmware images when ESM download firmware

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Secure Boot (Root of trust)
◼Secure boot
• In general, secure boot detects firmware corruption and prevents the booting of corrupted firmware.
• The firmware targeted for this secure boot includes the ESM boot loader, ESM OS, ESM FW, and DKCMAIN BIOS.
• ESM secure boot
• When the ESM CPU is turned on, the Root of Trust (RoT) validates the ESM boot loader. Then, the validated ESM boot loader
verifies ESM OS and ESM FW.
• ESM OS and ESM FW have 2 images for redundancy. The validated ESM boot loader verifies both images.
• DKCMAIN BIOS secure boot
• The validated ESM boot loader verifies the DKCMAIN BIOS.
◼Firmware recovery
• When the ESM boot loader detects FW corruption, ESM will restore the firmware image from golden image after booting with
redundant normal FW. The golden image also has a digital signature.

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KMIP Support
• Added capability to manage encryption keys with Key Management Server (KMS) without SVP.
New on
VSP VSP One B20 10.2.1
EKMS DEK backup DEK backup
KMS
DEK restore DEK restore
KEK KEK
SVP
generation generation
GUI/API
SVP is
required.

DARE
GUM ESM GUI/API

Key differences
DARE

DEK
DKCMAIN DKCMAIN KEK • KMIP configuration is allowed
DEK only through APIs. GUI will
be supported in upcoming
KEK
SSD
SSD

SSD

SSD

SSD
SSD

SSD

SSD
releases.
• 2 python scripts will be provided
Storage Storage to perform the initial setup.
System System
• Initial Setup script
• Reset settings script

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Unbreakable Core
Extend trusted guarantees across the entire data plane

100% Data Availability

Modern Storage Effective Capacity
Guarantee
Assurance Guarantee
Meet service level
Future-proof VSP One Lower storage costs by
agreements with
solution technology increasing capacity while
continuous access to VSP
without data migrations. protecting performance.
One data. Guaranteed.

Coming Soon : Cyber Resiliency Guarantee

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Coming soon

QLC drive support

60TB NVMe SSD Dynamic Drive
Dual-port 30TB QLC
(TLC) Protection (DDP)
Capacity optimized
• Higher density SSD to NAND memory option to
Single drive addition
increase max. capacity deliver a lower per-
of the system terabyte cost closer to
> 32 drives per group
that of HDD’s.

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Virtual Storage Platform One

Deployment &
Licensing

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Licensing

Appliance Software Licenses ALL INCLUSIVE APPLIANCE ESSENTIALS APPLIANCE

SVOS RF x x
Local Replication x x
Ops Center Administrator x x
Ops Center Analyzer x x
Ops Center Automator x x
Ops Center Predictive Analytics x x
Ops Center Protector (Full Function*) x x
Ops Center Clear Sight x x
Data Mobility x x
Universal Vol Manager x x
Remote Data Protection x
Global Active Device x

External Node and 3rd Party Licenses

Ops Center Automator (Direct, Proxy nodes)

Ops Center Analytics (3rd Party, Nodes)
Ops Center Analyzer Viewpoint
External Storage Optimization

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 Current Midrange Portfolio Positioning
Platform Application/Use case Workload/Characteristics
VSP One • Tier 1 databases (Oracle/SQL) • Transactional workloads (real-time, low-latency, random IO)
Block • Tier 1 virtual machines datastore • ERP (low-latency, high throughput, mixed read/write)
• Large scale virtual desktop infrastructure • CRM (read intensive, mixed block sizes)
• Test and development environment (high performance on • E-commerce (real-time, low-latency)
Flash) • BI (large database, complex/adhoc queries, millions of records)
• SAP HANA • VDI (small block 4k, write-intensive, susceptible to boot storm)
• Epic (electronic health records system) • Email (large block, balanced sequential/random)

VSP E • Tier 2 databases (Oracle/SQL) • Business processing (real-time or batch processing)

Series • Tier 2 virtual machines datastore and boot disks • Data warehouse (requires high IO bandwidth)
• General purpose virtual desktop infrastructure • Data Mart (batch, bulk, sequential, parallel processing)
• Test and development environment (low cost on HDD) • DevOps (multiple, up to date copies, scale quickly, cost effective)
• Containers • End user support (mixed block sizes)
• Backup target • Data backup/restore (sequential write, large block 256k)
• Archiving target (incl. HCP) • Disaster recovery
• Archives (e.g. database)

VSP G/F • Remote office apps and data store • Data backup, restore (sequential write, large block 256k)
• Backup target • Disaster recovery
• Archiving target (incl. HCP) • Archives (e.g. database)

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Virtual Storage Platform: Enterprise Storage for Everyone
Unbreakable for Over 20 Years

Fastest Scalable Flexible Resilient

• World’s fastest enterprise array • Start small 2 controllers • NVMe lowest latency • Eight 9s availability
• 33M IOPS • Scale massive 12 controllers • SSD best price/performance • 100X more reliable than
• As low as 39us latency • Scale to 69PB • HDD best $/GB competitors
• 100% data availability

VSP E1090
Next Gen
VSP 5600
Flexibility to stay modern and • Leader in Gartner MQ – primary storage
VSP E590 agile for new VSP 5000 Series • 9/10 Top Banks and manufacturers and
and VSP E Series models 10/10 top insurers and telcos trust
Hitachi Vantara
Non-disruptively take advantage
of increased performance and • Leader in sustainability by core design in
new features storage infrastructure
• Modern Storage Assurance extends infra
life without disruption

The Fastest and Most Resilient Storage Platform that 76% of the Fortune 500 Trust
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Key Points to Remember

01 02 03 04
Compact Simple Sustainable Safe
The all-flash NVMe All-inclusive Appliance ENERGY STAR and CFP Hardware Root of Trust -
design with always-on Automated storage certified built in protection
Adaptive Data Reduction operations using AI- Enhanced protection by
38% Less CO2
(ADR) technology enhanced software integrating with snapshot
Compared to Any Vendor ecosystems
Ops Center Clear Sight
Starts as a single, provides automated Modern Storage Guaranteed Immutable
compact, 2U appliance monitoring, predictive Assurance upgrades snapshots with retention
with up to 1.8PBe and analysis, and fully controllers while 100% Data Availability
scales up and out to 65 observable cloud-based extending media life Warranty - Continuous data
systems – fast. management access for databases,
DDP for maximized applications, and users
storage efficiency and
lower TCO

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