Hitachi Vantara VSP One Block
Alliance Partner: |
Hitachi Vantara |
Alliance Product: |
VSP One Block |
Program Category: |
Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target |
Category Description: |
Solutions certified as a primary backup target. Passing all compatibility/functional tests, as well as extensive performance tests for both backup and restore operations |
Article ID: |
1356 |
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Publication date: |
2025-01-31 |
Last modified date: |
2025-01-31 |
This Veeam Ready test was performed with storage having a configuration that includes SSD/Flash. As such, this classification only applies to similar configurations in which the same amount or more SSD drives are used. The use of non-SSD drives may negatively impact performance.
Product Details
Model number: VSP One Block 26
Storage Category: All Flash Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 40 x 1.9 TB SSD (SNM5C-R1R9NC), Drive Interface: NVMe
Storage configuration: RAID6 with 6D+2P drive configuration and 1 additional drive for Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) setup
Firmware version: A3-03-01-40/01
OS version: SVOS 10.3.1
Connection protocol and speed: NVMe-oF (Ethernet), 100 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of Hitachi Vantara VSP One Block 26 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
VSP One Block is a block storage solution from Hitachi Vantara with NVMe all-flash scalable architecture.
It offers additional protection for hard drives by enabling Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) feature. This provides additional hardware security along with the Deduplication and Compression for the volumes.
Storage Category: All Flash Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 40 x 1.9 TB SSD (SNM5C-R1R9NC), Drive Interface: NVMe
Storage configuration: RAID6 with 6D+2P drive configuration and 1 additional drive for Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) setup
Firmware version: A3-03-01-40/01
OS version: SVOS 10.3.1
Connection protocol and speed: NVMe-oF (Ethernet), 100 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of Hitachi Vantara VSP One Block 26 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
VSP One Block is a block storage solution from Hitachi Vantara with NVMe all-flash scalable architecture.
It offers additional protection for hard drives by enabling Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) feature. This provides additional hardware security along with the Deduplication and Compression for the volumes.
Veeam Testing Configuration
Veeam Build Number: 12.2.0.334
Vendor recommended configuration
Vendor Settings:
- Caching used: yes
- Read/write caching: Size: 256GB Type: DDR5 DIMM Use: It acts as a medium for temporarily storing data in rapidly accessible storage memory. By default, the storage uses Cache write-back to transfer data.
- Networking: MTU = 9000
- Multipathing / link aggregation used: High Performance Plugin (HPP)
- Array deduplication used in testing: Yes
- Array compression used in testing: Yes
Additional storage settings:
With VSP One Block series, it is always recommended to use Dynamic Drive Protection (DDP) while creating a DP Pool. By default, VSP One Block only supports DP volumes with capacity Savings enabled. The volumes we used had Deduplication and Compression enabled.
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