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Hitachi Vantara VSP 5000 Series

Veeam Ready - Repository
Alliance Partner:

Hitachi Vantara

Alliance Product:

VSP 5000 Series

Program Category:

Veeam Ready - Repository

Category Description:

Primary backup target solutions that have been qualified as meeting or exceeding both functional and performance tests for backup and restore operations.

Article ID:

370

Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk ISCSI
Publication date:

2021-12-08

Last modified date:

2023-07-13

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 5200
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 8 x 3.8TB SSDs
Storage configuration: RAID6 (6D+2P);
Firmware version: 90-09-20-00/00
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE, iSCSI
Additional support: All models and configurations of VSP 5000 Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5x00 Series Enterprise-grade solutions offer Flash/Hybrid configuration options. It can scale from 2 nodes to 6 nodes supporting FC-NVMe, FC, FICON and ISCSI interfaces.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.0.0.1420 P20230412

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: yes
  • Read/write caching:  Total Cache: 851 GB
    VSP series uses system cache for all the active R/W IOs. This VSP 5200 was used as a shared storage system with two other projects simultaneously.
  • Networking: MTU = 9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: Yes, multipathing on storage and MPIO on host
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

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