Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) 4000

series offer enterprise-level performance and scalability for file server

consolidation, primary deduplication, remote replication and disaster
recovery of commercial application data.
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Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series

Petabyte-Scale File Sharing At the same time, multiple levels of vir- ■■ Intelligent file tiering and automated
Challenges tualization overcome the complexities of migration enables dynamic policy-based
large-scale file system management and hierarchical storage management (HSM).
Enterprise organizations are looking for
support popular commercial applications ■■ Advanced enterprise virtualization
better ways to handle the massive and
like Oracle and SAP, especially within framework delivers thin provisioning and
growing amount of file-based data and
VMware and Citrix environments. virtual server capabilities.
applications, whether human or machine
generated. Rising costs, data protection ■■ Concurrent support for NFS, SMB3,
Features
complexities, and difficulties meeting Fibre Channel and iSCSI eliminates stor-
service level agreements are obstacles Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 series presents age silos.
to success. Data centers must become a standards-compliant object-based file ■■ Unlimited file clones are available to
more efficient, more cost-conscious and system interface that is feature rich, reliable
enable writable snapshots while effi-
more reliable to successfully win these and very flexible. Key features include:
ciently using capacity.
challenges. In today’s environments, orga- ■■ Hardware-accelerated network protocols ■■ Object-based remote replication over
nizations need efficient, highly scalable support up to 2GB/sec throughput for WAN is provided.
and high-performance storage systems, sequential workloads and up to 1.2 million ■■ Hitachi Content Platform allows active
but at a lower total cost of ownership. NFS OPS with Hitachi Virtual Storage archiving, data deduplication and
Platform G1000 systems and Hitachi content-aware compression, and it is
Business Benefits Accelerated Flash.1 the foundation for our cloud infrastruc-
Hitachi storage systems were designed ■■ Scalability supports up to 8 nodes ture offering.
to deliver performance at scale, capacity with 32PB usable capacity, 256TB file
efficiencies and superior economics. As system pools, large single namespace Summary
your file share requirements evolve, Hitachi up to the maximum usable capacity, and Hitachi NAS Platform systems were
Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform up to 60,000 concurrent users. designed to deliver scale, performance,
series products will scale to your business efficiencies and economics. As your file
■■ System memory is 108GB on HNAS
and technology needs to improve produc- share requirements evolve, Hitachi Unified
4100, 46GB on HNAS 4080 and 4060,
tivity, drive revenue, increase quality and Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform series
and 32GB on HNAS 4040.
speed time-to-market. products will scale to your business and
■■ Primary data deduplication using
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS technology needs. They will help you
hardware-based SHA-256 calculation
Platform use a hardware-accelerated improve productivity, drive revenue, increase
engines provides high performance and
hybrid-core architecture. This architec- quality and speed time-to-market.
up to 90% capacity savings, depend-
ture efficiently consolidates capacity ing on data types. Auto-throttling of
across multiple applications and simpli- the dedupe process enables uncom-
fies storage management for enterprise promised performance during high file
environments, without compromising per- sharing workload periods.
formance and scalability.

Estimated SPECsfs_2008 NFS v3 Benchmark for 8-node Clustered 4100

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HITACHI UNIFIED STORAGE AND HITACHI NAS PLATFORM 4000 series: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Network Interfaces Protocols Supported
User interface type 10Gb/sec Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ae Network protocol Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0, 2.0, 1.0; Network
Data interfaces File serving: SFP+, passive copper, SM + MM fibre support File System (NFS) with UDP v3 and v2 or TCP v4, v3
and v2; NDMP v4, v3 and v2;
Fibre Channel: SFP+, MM fibre File Transfer Protocol (FTP); iSCSI
Cluster Interconnect: SFP+, passive copper, SM + Management and HTTP, SSL, SSH and SNMP v1; v2c, NIS, DNS,
MM fibre other protocols WINS, NTP; email alerts
Port configuration Port-independent configuration; multiple IP addresses;
Connectivity
256 IP addresses per node (4 IP x 64 EVS)
User interface type Fibre Channel, SFP+ connectors
Module diagnostics Module status LEDs
Number of ports Two 10GbE ports for clustering; four 10GbE ports
Data Migration Options (on 4060/4080/4100) and two10GbE ports (on
Internal over Fibre Data migrator and cross volume links 4040) for file serving; four 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel
Channel ports for storage; one serial I/O port for management
External over IP HNAS universal migrator from 3rd-party NAS; and data Fibre Channel 8Gb/sec per port for 4060/4080/4100; 4Gb/sec per
migrator and external cross volume links to Hitachi port interfaces port for 4040
Content Platform and/or Amazon S3 interface
File System Attributes
NDMP Backup Attributes File system Hitachi NAS Silicon File System; hardware-
NDMP support NDMP v2, v3 and v4 accelerated object-based file system
Tape library system Support for SAN and LAN connectivity Single namespace Cluster namespace for file system virtualization
NDMP features Direct access recovery, 3-way backup and restore and unified directory structure
System Management Attributes Multiprotocol support Simultaneous SMB/CIFS and NFS
Standard manage- Manage up to 8 nodes; replication management; Maximum file system 256TB for 4040/4060/4080/4100; dynamically
ment features automated system configuration and backup; role- pool size scalable
based management; enhanced system monitoring; Physical Dimensions
antivirus support; out-of-band Ethernet management Height x width x 3U, 5.1 in. (130mm) x 17.2 in. (437mm)
network length x 27 in. (685mm)
Management GUI-based — HTTP, HTTPS; remote console (CLI) Weight 55 lbs. (25kg)
interfaces via SSH; Scripting — SiCtrl
Hitachi Storage Supported
Secure management SSL, SSH
access Storage systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, Hitachi Unified
Storage VM, Hitachi Unified Storage 100 series and
Management access User or password authentication; management
Hitachi Accelerated Flash
control port definition; management access method;
Access Control Lists (ACLs); NIS, Microsoft® Active Disk drive types Flash modules (FMD), solid-state drive (SSD),
Directory® (AD) with Auditing and LDAP serial-attached SCSI (SAS), nearline (NL)-SAS

HITACHI UNIFIED STORAGE AND HITACHI NAS PLATFORM 4000 SERIES: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
File System IOPS2 per Throughput3 Maximum File System Size Ethernet Ports Fibre Maximum
Model Objects 2-Node Capacity Channel Nodes per
Cluster Ports Cluster
Hitachi Unified Storage 16 million per 130,000 Up to 4PB 256TB file system pool; 6 x 1GbE and 2 x 4 x 4, 2 or Up to 2 nodes
(HUS) and Hitachi NAS directory 700MB/sec 4PB single namespace 10GbE File Sharing, 1Gb/sec
Platform (HNAS) 4040 5 x 10/100Mb ports
HUS with HNAS 4060 16 million per 147,957 Up to 8PB 256TB file system pool; 4 x 10GbE File 4 x 8, 4 or Up to 2 nodes
directory 1,000MB/ 8PB single namespace Sharing, 2 x 10GbE 2Gb/sec
sec Clustering ports
HUS with HNAS 4080 16 million per 209,519 Up to 16PB 256TB file system pool; 4 x 10GbE File 4 x 8, 4 or Up to 4 nodes
directory 1,500MB/ 16PB single namespace Sharing, 2 x 10GbE 2Gb/sec
sec Clustering ports
Hitachi Virtual Storage 16 million per 1.2 million Up to 32PB 256TB file system pool; 4 x 10GbE File 4 x 8, 4 or Up to 8 nodes
Platform G1000 with directory with 2,000MB/ 32PB single namespace Sharing, 2 x 10GbE 2Gb/sec
HNAS 4100 8 nodes sec Clustering ports
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Estimated SPECsfs_2008 NFS v3 ops/sec 3
NFS and SMB mixed workloads (70% read and 30% write)

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