Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

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What is Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)?

The Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) is an operating system designed to deliver superior storage performance and resilience for block, file, and mainframe workloads. It aims to simplify storage management operations, enhance NVMe and SCM performance, and enable hybrid cloud storage agility. Suitable for companies of all sizes, including Fortune 100 companies, SVOS is beneficial for IT professionals, storage administrators, data center managers, and industries such as financial services and healthcare.

Categories & Use Cases

Verified User

Employee in Sales (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main challenge that is addressed by Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) is managing diverse and ever-growing data volumes/workloads. Helps in structured, unstructured, semi-structured data types. It has significantly solved the performance, latency and scaling challenges which traditional architectures struggle to adapt.

Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) has optimized the storage significantly. It supports the moving data between tiers , hence the capacity is allocated only when needed. This has lead to lowering the storage cost per unit data & scaling flexibility.

Pros

Scaling Flexibility
Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
Improving cost efficiency
Simplifying storage management

Cons

Better user interface
Unified storage to fit mid-market needs
Complex installation process

Return on Investment

Pooled external & internal storage into one resource & increased utilization by 40%
Reduces raw capacity needs by 50 - 70%

Usability

Alternatives Considered

NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

Other Software Used

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our testing fleet we use Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) in all our storage compute machines to have reliable and stable OS for storage technologies. Our requirement is to have fast, reliable and stable storage solution for testing frameworks and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) provides that. Scope of our use case is for internal testing infrastructure we want a high performant resilient storage solution

Pros

Stable OS
Fast performance with no overhead in virtualized environment
Live migration is very easy and reliable

Cons

Cost is too high
Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner

Return on Investment

Cost had bit of negative impact
Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business

Usability

Alternatives Considered

NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

Other Software Used

Azure DevOps Services, Azure Virtual Machines, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been having multiple storage solutions, however they are old and was not in a position to get supoprt from the vendors as they were too old. We were looking for an option to virtulize our sotrage enviroment so that we can leverage the old storage appliances for DEV / TEST environments. Hitachi SVOS was the solution which provided us with the required feature set.
PS :- Hitachi drives are really reliable not many users know this.

Pros

Intergreation of legancy storage solutions
Single pane for future storage configurations
Amazing replication capability for disaster recovery purposes

Cons

Ease of use can be increased so that SMB segment could leverage without the need of having a storage administrator
Firmware upgrade for the legancy storage device from HSVOS pane

Most Important Features

Virtulization of the storage environment
Increased performance in database servers
Disaster Recovery replication boost

Return on Investment

It is quite an expensive solution compared to other vendors so we cant expect a ROI within 3 years time as always.
3 years has been a standard ROI review, however storage solution like Hitachi SVOS are meant to lasts for a longer period like 6 years in my consideration.
However, this solution provides a great benefit to make use of legacy appliances.

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC Avamar, Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, HP StorageWorks X9000 and Fujitsu Eternus DX400 series

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Forcepoint ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication

Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

What is Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)?

Categories & Use Cases