Software Products - Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V Reference Manual

Software Products

The Universal Storage Platform V and VM provide many advanced features and
functions that increase data accessibility and deliver enterprise-wide coverage
of online data copy/relocation, data access/protection, and storage resource
management. Hitachi Data Systems' software products and solutions provide a
full set of industry-leading copy, availability, resource management, and
exchange software to support business continuity, database backup and
restore, application testing, and data mining.
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Universal Storage Platform V/VM.
host/server-based software for the Universal Storage Platform V/VM.
lists and describes the Hitachi Storage Command Suite software (formerly
HiCommand Storage Management Suite) for the Universal Storage
Platform V/VM.
NEW – Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is a new and advanced thin-provisioning software
product for the Universal Storage Platform V/VM that provides "virtual storage
capacity" to simplify administration and addition of storage, eliminate
application service interruptions, and reduce costs.
Dynamic Provisioning allows storage to be allocated to an application without
being physically mapped until it is used. This "just-in-time" provisioning de-
couples the provisioning of storage to an application from the physical addition
of storage capacity to the storage system to achieve overall higher rates of
storage utilization. Dynamic Provisioning also transparently spreads many
individual I/O workloads across multiple physical drives. This I/O workload
balancing feature directly reduces performance and capacity management
expenses by eliminating I/O bottlenecks across multiple applications.
For further information on Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, please contact your
Hitachi Data Systems account team, or visit Hitachi Data Systems online at
www.hds.com.
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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM User and Reference Guide
lists and describes the Storage Navigator-based software for the
Product Overview
Table 1-4 lists and describes the
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