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Market Presence: Primary Storage Platforms, Enterprise Storage Platforms

Overview

Product Information on Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy)

Updated 10th February 2024

What is Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy)?

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 series is a high-end, enterprise data storage solution supporting open systems and mainframe workloads. Hitachi Ops Center management software suite delivers centralized administration, analytics, automation, data protection and cyber-resiliency capabilities. Hitachi Clear Sight provides AI analytics SaaS observability to monitor VSP systems via a cloud-based portal. All VSP storage platforms run the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) including secure multi-tenancy, quality of service (QoS) for mission-critical applications and data mobility for data resiliency with a true symmetric active-active controller design. Hitachi Accelerated Fabric can scale from dual controllers with quad CPUs to 12 controllers with 24 CPUs supporting up to 33 million IOPS and 69PB of data. Scaling out the system delivers a more resilient data infrastructure solution due to the controller architecture that delivers 100% of data availability.

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Overall experience with Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy)

IT MANAGER
1B - 3B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“GAD Provides Resilience in Critical Situations but Compressed Volumes Increase CPU Usage”

5.0
Jul 9, 2025
Hitachi VSP is great product and very good support. We were able to reach high performance and resilience using GAD and HUR. Good solutions for DR
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byHitachi Vantara
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4.7

About Company

Company Description

Updated 19th November 2024

Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., offers modern data storage and infrastructure systems, intelligent data management and AI-powered hybrid cloud solutions. The company empowers customers to build a data foundation for sustainable business growth.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
Santa Clara, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
https://hitachivantara.com

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Performance of Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy) Across Market Features

Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

Like

Very robust and scalabile product, GAD is an active cluster solution that saved us in critical situation

Like

stable and performance

Like

The availabiliy.

Dislike

HUR and use of journal may be better Not so suitable for containers Compressed volumes use high cpu

Dislike

limited support for NVMe no transparent prices no mature software tools

Dislike

The Ops Manager is not easy to used.

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  • IT MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    GAD Provides Resilience in Critical Situations but Compressed Volumes Increase CPU Usage

    5.0
    Jul 9, 2025
    Hitachi VSP is great product and very good support. We were able to reach high performance and resilience using GAD and HUR. Good solutions for DR
  • Team Head Storage Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    High Performance and Stability

    4.0
    Jun 13, 2025
    Good experiences with prevoius product high performance and stability
  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Exploring the Performance of VSP5600 and VSP5200 Storage Systems

    5.0
    Apr 10, 2025
    We have VSP5600 and VSP5200 in our environment. The storage system area excellent, and we haven't encountered any performance issues, equipment failures, or management challenges.
  • SR SYSTEMS ENGINEER.
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    VSP5600's Superior Uptime & Performance Second to None

    5.0
    Oct 29, 2024
    Hitachi's professionalism and technical ability to implement and migrate data online was impressive.
  • Systems Administrator
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    VSP G5500 Series: Powerhouse of Performance and Reliability

    5.0
    Oct 29, 2024
    The VSP G5500 series has been one of the most reliable and performant storage arrays we have purchased.
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