Name: Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy)
Rating: 4.6 (90 reviews)

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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.

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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About Company

Company Description

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

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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Hitachi VSP 5000 Series (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

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

stable and performance

The availabiliy.

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

limited support for NVMe no transparent prices no mature software tools

The Ops Manager is not easy to used.

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1B-10B USD

Banking

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

Team Head Storage Engineering

50M-1B USD

High Performance and Stability

4.0

Jun 13, 2025

Good experiences with prevoius product high performance and stability

IT Manager

<50M USD

Exploring the Performance of VSP5600 and VSP5200 Storage Systems

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.

VSP5600's Superior Uptime & Performance Second to None

Oct 29, 2024

Hitachi's professionalism and technical ability to implement and migrate data online was impressive.

Systems Administrator

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

VSP G5500 Series: Powerhouse of Performance and Reliability

The VSP G5500 series has been one of the most reliable and performant storage arrays we have purchased.

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

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

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VSP5600's Superior Uptime & Performance Second to None

VSP G5500 Series: Powerhouse of Performance and Reliability

4.7

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