Products : Dynamic Provisioning

For customers seeking to reduce storage management operating costs Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software offers:

• Elimination of the traditional complexity of provisioning storage volumes on a "per application" basis when more storage is needed. No longer will administrators need to install additional disks and simultaneously re-configure both the storage system and the hosts being provisioned. With Dynamic Provisioning software, the administrator simply draws from the Dynamic Provisioning pool without needing to add physical disks.
• Greatly improved storage management efficiency and the ability of one administrator to manage more terabytes of data. This results from the de-coupling of physical resource provisioning from application provisioning, and simplifies storage management, thereby reducing operating costs.

For customers seeking to reduce application outages during provisioning, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software offers:

• Reduced downtime (planned outages) to increase physical disk capacity and change the application server and storage system configurations. With virtual storage provisioning, less physical provisioning means less application downtime

For customers seeking to simplify storage performance management, Hitachi Dynamic provisioning software offers:

• Automatic application I/O workload balancing, by spreading many I/O workloads across multiple physical volumes.

For customers seeking to reduce storage acquisition costs and minimize expensive over-provisioning, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning offers:

• The ability to configure all anticipated storage across multiple applications reducing the amount of physical disks that need to be purchased at the start compared to conventional provisioning techniques.
• Availability on both internal and externally virtualized storage to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V or Universal Storage Platform VM.
• Physical disks can be purchased and installed transparently as needed to minimize application service downtime for provisioning compared to conventional provisioning techniques.
• The reduction in physical disk requirements (due to increased utilization of existing disks and deferred storage purchases) can provide environmental savings in floor space, power, and cooling.

For customers concerned about the cost of replicated volumes or seeking to reduce the operating costs of storage replication, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning offers:

• Compatibility with all replication products on the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM. Compatible with ShadowImage® On the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family.
• All operating and capital expense savings are enhanced in a replication environment because of both bandwidth savings (only used portions of volumes are replicated) and licensing savings (only used physical space must be licensed). Plus because replicated systems typically use twice the space, using less storage yields additional cost savings.