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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.

Key Features

High Availability: Hitachi SVOS ensures continuous access to data and minimizes downtime with advanced data protection features, including redundant components, failover capabilities, and data replication.

Consolidate at Unprecedented Scale: Hitachi SVOS allows for the consolidation of storage resources at an unprecedented scale. It enables the virtualization of third-party arrays, optimizing storage from multiple vendors through a single interface.

Smart Automation Simplifies Operation: Hitachi SVOS simplifies storage management operations with smart automation capabilities. It provides intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for provisioning, monitoring, and managing storage resources, automating routine tasks to enhance operational efficiency.

Modernize Container Storage: Hitachi SVOS supports containerized applications by providing modernized container storage capabilities. It seamlessly integrates with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, facilitating efficient deployment and management of containerized workloads while ensuring consistent and reliable performance.

Advanced Data Reduction: Hitachi SVOS offers high-performance, user-selectable data reduction technologies, including data deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. These capabilities optimize storage capacity, improve efficiency, and help organizations reduce storage costs.

Performance Optimized: Hitachi SVOS enhances NVMe and SCM performance, reducing latency to as low as 70 microseconds (VSP 5000 series). It delivers superior storage performance for demanding workloads, ensuring high-speed data access and responsiveness.

Future Proof Storage: Hitachi SVOS simplifies storage management operations, enabling efficient scaling and adaptation to changing business needs. It supports hybrid cloud storage, seamlessly integrating with public cloud services, and facilitating data mobility and agility.

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Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) The Gold Standard in Enterprise Storage Virtualization

Incentivized
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

Brilliant Virtualization OS for storage solutions

Incentivized
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)

Storage Virtulization Delivered At Its Best

Incentivized
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