Catalogue · Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi VSP 5600
High-end · all-flash · multi-controller - Scale-up/scale-out enterprise array with up to 12 active-active controllers for the largest mission-critical consolidation projects.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | Hitachi Vantara |
| Family | VSP 5000 series |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Multi-controller |
| Status | Legacy / superseded |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | SVOS RF |
| Controllers | 12 |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | 6,597 GB |
| Availability | 99.999999% (eight 9s); 100% Data Availability Guarantee |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | Storage-class memory, NVMe SSD, SAS SSD |
| Drive note | Per-type maxima: 99 NVMe SCM, 288 NVMe SSD or 2,304 SFF SAS SSD (drive packs of 4). |
| Flash drive sizes | 0.38, 1.9, 3.8, 7.6, 15, 30, 60 TB |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | 2304 |
| Controller enclosure | 4U |
| Expansion | Up to 12 NVMe SSD and 96 SAS SSD flash media trays (sold in packages of 4) |
| Raw capacity | 69.3 PB |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | 4:1 effective capacity guarantee with Compression Accelerator Module |
| Protection | RAID-1 (2D+2D), RAID-1 (4D+4D), RAID-5 (3D+1P), RAID-5 (7D+1P), RAID-6 (6D+2P), RAID-6 (14D+2P) |
| Protection note | Max LUN size 256TB; global-active device metro clustering up to 500km; 3-data-center replication (async + GAD); Thin Image snapshots; data-at-rest encryption for NVMe and SAS; IBM FICON (16/32Gb) for mainframe. Product page removed from hitachivantara.com; superseded by VSP One Block. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | 33,000,000 |
| Maximum throughput | 312 GB/s |
| Latency | 39 µs |
| Conditions | Raw 69.3PB with 30TB SSDs; external virtualized capacity up to 287PB. 1-3 controller blocks = 2/4/6 nodes (4U each) = 4/8/12 controllers. Max cache 6TiB converted to GB. 192 host ports per the VSP 5200/5600 spec table (hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/specifications/virtual-storage-platform-vsp-5200-5600-spec-table.pdf); max Fibre bandwidth to host 614.4GB/s. |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, NVMe over FC, iSCSI |
| Fibre Channel | 32 Gb |
| Ethernet | 10 GbE |
| Host ports | 192 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | 65,280 |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | 1,048,575 |
| Management and support | |
| Management | Hitachi Ops Center |
| Power | n/a |
| Positioned for | Mission-critical |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Dynamic Provisioning pool · DP volume (LDEV) · Host group · Universal Replicator |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
? Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
✓ Immutable snapshots
? Ransomware detection
? Quality of service
✓ Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
? VMware vVols
? Kubernetes CSI
✕ Native file services
✕ Native object (S3)
✓ Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://www.hitachivantara.com/content/dam/hvac/pdfs/specifications/virtual-storage-platform-5000-series-family-matrix.pdf |
| Datasheet | https://www.hitachivantara.com/content/dam/hvac/pdfs/datasheet/virtual-storage-platform-5000-series-datasheet.pdf |