Product Overview 1-3
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM User and Reference Guide
New and Improved Capabilities
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM storage systems offer the
following new and improved capabilities as compared with the TagmaStore
Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller:
• NEW! Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning™
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is a new and advanced thin-provisioning
software product that provides “virtual storage capacity” to simplify
administration and addition of storage, eliminate application service
interruptions, and reduce costs.
• Cache capacity
The USP V supports up to 256 GB (128 GB for TagmaStore USP).
• Shared memory capacity
The USP V supports up to 32 GB (12 GB for TagmaStore USP).
The USP VM supports up to 16 GB (6 GB for TagmaStore NSC).
• Total storage capacity (internal and external storage)
The USP V supports up to 247 PB (32 PB for TagmaStore USP).
The USP VM supports up to 96 PB (16 PB for TagmaStore NSC).
• Aggregate bandwidth
The USP V provides an aggregate bandwidth of up to 106 GB/sec
(81 GB/sec for TagmaStore USP).
• Fibre-channel ports
The USP V supports up to 224 FC ports (192 for TagmaStore USP).
• FICON
®
ports
The USP V supports up to 112 FICON ports (96 for TagmaStore USP).
The USP VM supports up to 24 FICON ports (16 for TagmaStore NSC).
• ESCON
®
ports
The USP V supports up to 112 ESCON ports (96 for TagmaStore USP).
• Open-system logical devices
The USP VM supports up to 65,536 LDEVs (16,384 for TagmaStore NSC).
