SPC-1 Results of HDS Virtual Storage Platform G1000 With Accelerated Flash

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced that Virtual Storage Platform G1000 with Accelerated Flash achieved an SPC-1 Result that exceeded any prior submission of the real-world emulating SPC-1 benchmark – piercing the two million SPC-1 IO/s ceiling for the first time.

Built for demanding enterprise workloads in both standalone and converged environments, the VSP G1000 all-flash configuration allows organizations to maximize return on their investments in flash technology while accelerating application performance, maximizing server virtualization environments, and enabling extreme-performance private cloud deployments.

Given the abundance of often unsubstantiated vendor claims regarding storage performance, Hitachi provides audited, third-party performance results so customers can better plan, build and manage high-performance environments. SPC-1 performance testing is designed to demonstrate a system’s performance capabilities for workloads such as business critical applications and OLTP environments.

Achieving an SPC-1 Result of 2,004,941.89 SPC-1 IO/s, an all-flash VSP G1000 leapt to the front of the performance pack with more than 60% greater throughput and one-third the full-load response time of even specialized, niche DRAM-based systems.

Against typical enterprise competition, it was the first enterprise storage system to achieve SPC-1 Price-Performance of $1.00/SPC-1 IO/s.

Understand the VSP G1000 hardware and Storage Virtualization OS (SVOS) functional capabilities, other third-party assessments are necessary. Gartner provides such analysis within its Critical Capabilities for General-Purpose, High-End Storage Arrays ⁽¹⁾. For the second year in a row, VSP technology tied for the overall product score for every analyzed use-case, including overall, consolidation, OLTP, server virtualization and VDI, analytics and cloud. HDS has been placed as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays, 2014 report ⁽²⁾.

“This latest SPC-1 Result further demonstrates our commitment to provide industry-leading flash-based technologies, as well as the superiority of the Hitachi VSP G1000 architecture and our SVOS flash optimization engineering,” said Sean Moser, SVP, global portfolio and product management, HDS. “More and more, customers are asking for application and server virtualization acceleration with less disruption and risk to their environment. With Hitachi VSP G1000, we can start customers down the path toward a private cloud with confidence, unified management and performance to spare.“

Customer Benefits:

• Productivity: Sustained 333% more business transactions than the previous VSP with all-flash.

• Efficiency: 60% reduction in application response-time compared with prior VSP with all-flash, allowing support for more users and applications. 25% more workload per drive compared with prior VSP with all-flash.

G1000 provides the always-available, agile and automated foundation needed for a continuous-cloud infrastructure. Powered with Hitachi global storage virtualization, its software capabilities unlock IT agility and enable a low storage TCO.

⁽¹⁾  Gartner; Critical Capabilities for General-Purpose, High-End Storage Arrays; Valdis Filks, Stanley Zaffos, Roger W. Cox; November 20, 2014.

⁽²⁾ Gartner; Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays; Stanley Zaffos, Roger W. Cox, Valdis Filks; November 20, 2014.