Today, Hitachi Vantara announced the VSP E990, a midrange all-NVMe storage appliance. The new solution, available immediately, offers up to 5.8 million IOPS, I/O latency as low as 64µs with up to 64PB effective capacity. In this episode, Chris Evans chats remotely to Colin Gallagher about the new platform.

VSP E990 extends the existing solutions in the VSP family, from the F350 up to the 5000 series enterprise-class solutions. The “E” denotes NVMe – other platform models have “F” (flash) and “G” (general) designations. The quoted 64µs latency figure is lower than the VSP 5000 announced at NEXT last year (see the previous podcast recording on this). As a dual-controller array, E990 provides slightly better performance, shaving 6µs off the 5100 latency figures.

VSP E990 is based on the SVOS storage operating system used across all Hitachi VSP storage solutions. This provides consistency and standardisation for inter-family replication and management. VSP E990 incorporates Intelligent Data Reduction with a 4:1 “sight unseen” guarantee. The solution is also “SCM Ready”.

Chris talks to Colin about the evolution of the midrange market. As enterprise requirements change, mid-market solutions are becoming more important than ever. With this announcement, Hitachi Vantara is introducing EverFlex, a range of consumption models from purchase to “as a service”.

You can read more on the technical aspects of the E990 announcement on Colin’s blog. Here’s a link to the VSP E990 data sheet.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros * 00:57:00 – What is the VSP E990? * 00:03:49 – E990 is NVMe only * 00:04:36 – E990 is 64µs compared to 70µs with VSP 5000 * 00:07:30 – SVOS runs across all platforms for consistent management * 00:09:00 – What is Intelligent Data Reduction? * 00:14:05 – What is “SCM Ready”? * 00:18:40 – What protocol support will there be? * 00:21:10 – How does the E990 fit into the portfolio? * 00:25:25 – Is the midrange market the growth storage market? * 00:28:35 – Hitachi OpsCenter 10.1 supports VSP E990 * 00:31:36 – EverFlex from Hitachi Vantara introduces new consumption models * 00:34:16 – Wrap Up

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Related Podcasts & Blogs

* #123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000* #144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service* Hitachi Vantara Introduces VSP 5000 Series Storage Arrays

Colin’s Bio

Colin is Vice President for Digital Infrastructure Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara where he leads product marketing for storage systems, storage software, and converged/hyper-converged solutions. Over his 25-year career he has lead marketing and product management team teams at several major storage companies. Colin has a passion for telling compelling stories about technical products that help customers solve both business...