Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5600

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5600 (VSP 5600) is a flagship NVMe-native enterprise storage array engineered by Hitachi Vantara for the most demanding tier-1 workloads in large-scale data center environments. Built on Hitachi's proven VSP architecture, the system delivers end-to-end NVMe connectivity across controllers, cache, and backend drives, eliminating legacy SAS and FC bottlenecks that constrain competing high-end platforms. The VSP 5600 supports up to 69 drive slots in the base enclosure and scales to accommodate hundreds of NVMe SSDs, underpinned by a symmetric active-active controller architecture that ensures continuous availability and non-disruptive operations.

At its core, the VSP 5600 leverages Hitachi's Storage Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS RF), which provides global active-active clustering, real-time data services, and deep integration with Hitachi's Universal Volume Manager for heterogeneous external storage virtualization. The array delivers sub-100-microsecond response times under production workloads and supports inline deduplication and compression without performance penalty, maximizing effective capacity utilization. Its modular design accommodates NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) host connectivity alongside traditional Fibre Channel and iSCSI, enabling seamless coexistence within existing SAN infrastructures during cloud and modernization transitions.

The VSP 5600 is purpose-built for mission-critical environments including core banking, large-scale OLTP databases, ERP platforms, and high-frequency analytics where recovery time and recovery point objectives approach zero. Hitachi's always-on encryption using FIPS 140-2 validated hardware, combined with Cyber Vault immutable snapshot capabilities and three-datacenter replication via global-active device (GAD) and Universal Replicator, positions the VSP 5600 as a comprehensive business continuity and data resilience platform for regulated industries and critical national infrastructure operators.

Ideal for

• Core banking and financial transaction processing requiring sub-millisecond latency and continuous 99.9999% availability with zero-RPO replication across multiple data centers
• Large-scale Oracle, SAP HANA, and Microsoft SQL Server OLTP deployments demanding consistent high IOPS throughput and non-disruptive online migration and expansion
• Enterprise ERP consolidation onto a single high-density NVMe platform with workload isolation, Quality of Service controls, and mixed-protocol host connectivity
• Cyber resilience and ransomware recovery architectures leveraging Hitachi Cyber Vault with immutable snapshots and air-gap isolation for regulated industries
• Mainframe and open-systems converged storage consolidation using Universal Volume Manager to virtualize third-party arrays and simplify tiered storage management
• High-performance analytics and in-memory database acceleration where NVMe-oF fabric connectivity eliminates storage I/O as a bottleneck for time-sensitive business intelligence workloads

Technical specifications

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