3D Scaling in Practice

3D scaling

Scale up - in performance

Increase propotionally!

The Hitachi VSP scales up to meet increasing demands of applications and servers, by scaling dynamically for performance, capacity, and connectivity without disruption, adding incremental resources as demand for storage resources increases by tightly coupling them through a global cache, and scaling resources non-disruptively, including caches, ports, and drives to meet demands.

Scale out - in capacity

Add what needed!

To scale out (or scale horizontally) means to handle the nodes of the system optimized, in order to increase the capacity of the infrastructure.
The VSP also supports scaling out multiple servers with changing workload requirements by building out the storage system by combining multiple units into a single logical system, provisioning storage dynamically to multiple host servers on demand from a common pool of storage resources, tailoring for workloads and server needs without compromise, and achieving high performance for open and mainframe environments.

Scale deep - with external storage connectivity

The VSP also scales down to extend the platform’s capabilities and value to heterogeneous storage to integrate multi-vendor external storage into the storage pool with scale up and scale out functionality, provide a single platform for block, file and content with central management, data protection and search, use lower cost external storage for lower cost purposes, and reduce operating expenses through a common management framework.

Who is it for?

“Today’s data centers are reaching an inflection point, evolving into something that is more agile, scalable and efficient,” said Roger W. Cox, research vice president, Gartner Inc. “Storage vendors that deliver on the critical requirements, such as 3D scaling, are what enterprises are looking for to transform their data center into an infrastructure that meets the demanding requirements of today’s virtualized environment.” The Hitachi VSP shows these ambitions, and companies that will benefit from it, are those with massive scalability requirements, such as virtualized server environments or those looking to facilitate and optimize their cloud deployments, including integration with server virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

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