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2020: Acceleration of configuring using means of Hitachi UCP Advisor

On September 25, 2020 the company Hitachi Vantara announced improvements and functionality of the complex of solutions for hyper convergent infrastructures (HCI) in the form of the updated Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC and Hitachi UCP RS platforms. These updates provide to users additional opportunities, such as acceleration of configuring using means of Hitachi UCP Advisor, the certified support of workloads SAP HANA, performance improvement thanks to to processors Intel Cascade Lake Xenon Refresh and also the enhanced capabilities of management of lifecycle of solutions providing updates without work interruption.

Hitachi UCP

There are no doubts that COVID-19 pandemic effects for business and everyday life of people around the world will be long. It means need to provide more large-scale support of mobile and remote work with the integrated interaction opportunities and also special attention of fault tolerance and cyber security of infrastructures and acceleration of implementation of initiatives in the field of digital conversion for the IT organizations. Bobby Soni, the president of the direction of digital infrastructures of Hitachi Vantara said

According to the company, the updated solutions of Hitachi for HCI allow to unify management of cloud infrastructures, providing to users transparent compatibility of all components of the traditional environment of data storage, hybrid clouds based on HCI and public cloud services. These offers include the scaled and simplified basis for creation of a hybrid cloud which allows users to increase architecture of data processing centers in case of need of increase in resources of storage.

Thanks to the optimized automation equipment and analysts users will be able to accelerate implementation of different solutions, to optimize productivity and to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for a number of options of award enforcement, including the hybrid cloud services crucial for business applications, such as SAP HANA, infrastructures of the virtual desktop systems (VDI) and Wednesdays DevOps. The complex of the solutions Hitachi Vantara for HCI is complemented with the updated functionality of management of zero, first and second day which includes the updated management tools lifecycle providing upgrade of all stack of HCI without work interruption, including network switches IP and SAN. These updates provide to users different opportunities, including:

• The unified management of a cloud environment. The necessary flexibility is provided to users during creation of cloud infrastructures with transparent mobility of workloads and data between all environments in the territory of the organization and based on a public cloud. Hitachi UCP Advisor allows to accelerate to 80% configuring in comparison with former HCI management tools and to reduce complexity of all components of the environment.
• Scalable performance. Performance improvement, scalabilities and density of ports provide capability of departments of IT quickly to increase resources of data processing centers for crucial applications and to reduce operating costs, reducing thereby total cost of ownership. The updated HCI platforms provide the certified support of workloads of SAP HANA. Cascade Lake Refresh Xeon processors provide the performance improvement necessary for consolidation of workloads, excluding at the same time problems of the competition for shares. Thanks to technologies of automation and increase in efficiency of data storage of the solution of Hitachi for HCI help to lower capital and operating costs.
• Reduced models of consumption. The solution EverFlex of Hitachi Vantara provides a wide choice of simple, flexible and complex options of acquisition of all solutions Hitachi Vantara, including the UCP family, thanks to pricing models on the basis of the actual consumption which allow to bring expenses on IT into accord with commercial use of products and services and to reduce costs to 20% due to payment in process of use. Users also have an opportunity to accelerate input of systems in operation, using previously certified and optimized packets and initial configurations, including solutions ensuring remote work.
• The optimized sales processes through partners. Besides, Hitachi Vantara offers adaptable services for cross-sales and sales of additional solutions from among other IT products of Hitachi.

2018

Optimization of the Hitachi UCP systems for creation of IT infrastructures

On October 4, 2018 Hitachi Vantara announced the forthcoming technology improvements of all systems as a part of a complex of solutions for creation of IT infrastructures. They will help customers to upgrade data processing centers within the strategy of digital conversions. Improvements include creation of the first hyper convergent infrastructure of Hitachi which promises much higher performance and efficiency for the customers using the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC platform (UCP HC).

Expanded line of the convergent and hyper convergent systems

The family of the convergent, hyper convergent and rack Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) systems offers customers the platforms simplified, undergone careful testing which integrate in themselves functions of calculations, network capabilities and storage functions of data. These platforms are distinguished by the speed of installation and simplicity of management/expansion according to the changing requirements of business. Among expansions of a line of UCP it is possible to note the following:

A series of hardware-software solutions on the basis of hyper convergent infrastructure of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) will be filled up by the updated UCP HC V124N system. This system provides the high density and capacity of data storage. At the same time it differs in a low delay, has a form factor 1U and contains in itself up to 12 non-volatile modules of SSD memory. Thanks to it the physical capacity of a system can reach 72 Tbyte. This system is expected customers for whom higher speed of execution of operations of input-output (IOPS) and an ultralow delay is necessary. These parameters play an important role for such applications as analytical real-time processing, the stock exchange trading, identification of fraudulent activity and transaction processing online (OLTP). The offered hyper convergent system will allow customers to increase significantly performance, to increase efficiency and to achieve the fastest investment payback thanks to accomplishment of hundreds of thousands of input-output operations (IOPS) less than for millisecond. This system has three times the big performance of execution of operations of input-output (IOPS), than the previous version of the UCP HC system and also provides four times a smaller delay.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor), the software for management and coordination of infrastructure of IT, will be replenished with additional function of the manager of deployment. UCP Advisor automates hundreds of tasks which were earlier executed manually and allows to reduce deployment terms of several days till several o'clock.

The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI system (UCP CI) will support a series of the Hitachi Advanced Server DS7000 servers intended for support of the most exacting and scalable applied systems, including such as SAP and Oracle and also a series of the Hitachi Advanced Server DS225 servers now. These servers are supplied with graphic accelerators of Tesla from NVIDIA which are used for support of the applications which are intensively involving graphics in work.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS), a system based on architecture of Rack-scale for simplification of deployment of flexible infrastructures for work with data in required scale, will include support of a series of the Hitachi DS225 servers with graphic accelerators of Tesla from NVIDIA providing support of applications with high requirements to graphic functions now.

Additional optimization of applied infrastructure for work with databases

The solution Hitachi Solution for Databases constructed on the basis of the UCP systems expands possibilities of customers regarding optimization and scaling of infrastructure of data for the systems of Oracle critical for business.

Support of Hadoop as a direct system for partial transfer of loading is added to the system of optimization under Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The possibility of transfer of "cold" data from productive infrastructure of Oracle EDW in the Hadoop system allows to reduce amounts of data in EDW and, as a result, to increase its performance and to reduce the costs connected with acquisition of licenses for information volume, contained in the basis for data.

The possibility of unloading of data from Oracle EDW in MongoDB, and now and in Hadoop (thanks to integration of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS platforms (UCP RS) and Pentaho Data Integration) allows to receive the infrastructure solution able to mix the data arriving from a set of separate sources.

Besides, the customers of Oracle using crucial, high-performance databases and applied infrastructures can use the UCP CI configurations with servers of the Hitachi DS7000 series now for achievement of levels of scalability and performance which are necessary for the modern digital companies.

The Hitachi Solution for the SAP HANA platform gives to customers ampler opportunities of the choice now and provides simpler mechanism of management thanks to recently certified SAP HANA hardware and software solutions which cornerstone the Hitachi UCP CI configuration with servers of the Hitachi DS7000 series, and expanded integration of control functions by data storage devices of Hitachi and server adapters for SAP HANA Cockpit is.

It is supposed that the UCP CI configurations with servers of the Hitachi DS7000 series will provide support of a number of virtual infrastructure solutions, including Virtual HANA (vHANA) and other systems based on VMware.

Expansion of family of the solutions UCP

The Hitachi Vantara company, Hitachi Ltd. affiliated enterprise, announced on June 13, 2018 optimization hardware and the software of all products of family of the convergent, hyper convergent and created based on architecture Rack-scale of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) systems, including the disk systems with caching based on NVMe SSD and the server systems based on GPU processors.

The certified application solutions are suitable for work in crucial environments, such as SAP HANA databases Oracle, VMware and infrastructures for analytics Big Data. The convergent UCP systems and the integrated application solutions Hitachi Vantara allow customers to support all types of workloads in multicloud environments of any scale.

The Hitachi UCP systems ensure functioning of the simplified standard platforms which differ in fast deployment, simplicity in management and lack of risks due to minimization of quantity of the errors connected with a human factor. They allow to create the flexible infrastructure necessary for upgrade of the data processing centers (DPC). Thanks to it customers can quicker react to changes of business needs and it is more productive to work with data, noted in Hitachi Vantara.

Products of the Hitachi UCP family

The Hitachi UCP systems use the modular components of infrastructure tested on compliance to specific requirements. They allow customers to begin with small configurations and to expand systems, gradually adding components of computing resources, network infrastructures and storage systems for production optimization.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor), the software solution for management and coordinating of the Hitachi UCP family, provides full automation of work of server and network components and also components of DWH. UCP Advisor using the configured workflows allows IT specialists to move automatically applications and workflows between cloud environments and the UCP systems for quick start of new services. The latest version of UCP Advisor provides further expansion of opportunities of automation, in particular, acceleration of deployment and risk mitigation.

Created on the basis of modular convergent system architecture of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI (UCP CI) allow to upgrade infrastructure of DPC with minimum risks. The UCP CI systems in combination with a packet of the automation equipment using UCP Advisor increase operational efficiency of virtualization and performance of crucial applications. According to developers, these systems simplify control of both virtual, and physical infrastructures, providing support of a broad spectrum of corporate and cloud workflows in any scale.

Now Hitachi UCP CI provides support of recently hybrid and created entirely based on a flash technologies Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) platforms released. In comparison with last models, the VSP systems provide more high efficiency and performance, support of containers and cross-platform software tools of automation of IT systems and analytics based on AI. The Hitachi Advanced Server DS220 and DS240 servers based on the Intel processors Skylake have enhanced capabilities of vertical and horizontal scaling of computing resources that allows to meet the strict requirements concerning performance imposed to environments of virtualization, SAP and Oracle.

The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC system (UCP HC) represent scalable hyper convergent infrastructure hardware and software solutions, ready to deployment. UCP HC use industry-leading software tools of VMware of vSAN for creation of hyper convergent infrastructures, providing simplicity, flexibility and complete coordination of installation processes, managements and updates.

The Hitachi Advanced Server DS225 server with support Nvidia Tesla of the GPU processor provides the enhanced graphic capabilities necessary for such applications as VDI CADCAE and also analytical solutions. Means of caching Intel Optane based on NVMe SSD which include the DS120 server provide high-performance transaction processing for crucial applications and analytical environments. The storage system of the increased capacity of the DS220 server is intended for such scenarios of use as testing and application development, support of branches, creation of repositories and file services.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) is the system based on architecture of Rack-scale intended for simplification of deployment of flexible infrastructures for work with data in required scale. This system allows customers to unroll hybrid cloud environments, providing the accelerated output of products and services to the market and also additional benefit at payment in process of use of solutions. Hitachi UCP RS includes such improvements as a possibility of use of the Intel Skylake servers entirely based on a flash technologies for performance improvement and efficiency and also support of VMware of vSAN.

Ecosystem of application solutions based on the UCP systems

The ecosystem of application solutions created on the basis of family of the UCP systems includes as previously integrated, optimized and certified infrastructure solutions, and reference architecture in combination with the expert services focused on applications.

The solution of Hitachi for the SAP HANA platform simplifies the data analysis of SAP HANA made in real time and also Big Data from a set of sources. It allows to accept quicker more exact business solutions, told in Hitachi Vantara. Candidate solutions for SAP HANA include the certified integration tools of specialized DPCs (TDI) with high rates of density of storage and efficiency and scaling to 64 nodes on the chassis. DPCs use storage systems of VSP based on a flash memory for work with the most exacting SAP applications. It is possible to scale the certified hardware-software systems to 8 processors and 12 Tbyte. They are suitable for placement of the SAP Business Suite 4 HANA platform (SAP S/4 HANA) used for the solution of financial tasks, resource allocation planning of the enterprise, supply chain management and accomplishment of other crucial transactions. Besides, for centralized operation Hitachi added to Hitachi Server and Storage Adapter adapters of means of analytics for forecasting of resources and sending notifications on the basis of threshold values — SAP HANA Cockpit.

The solution of Hitachi for databases with optimization appliances of Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) allows to move "warm" and "cold" data to "the lake of data" which consists of the certified cluster of MongoDB functioning based on the Hitachi UCP RS systems. It reduces licensing costs of programs, horizontal scaling and acquisition of the equipment and also provides support of analytics on Oracle EDW and MongoDB, explained in the company. Means of Hitachi Pentaho Data Integration provide the accessibility both to the existing EDW environments, and to additional environments of storage of Big Data using the uniform tool.

Previously tested infrastructure includes the computing clusters of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and MongoDB Enterprise supplementing Pentaho Data Integration. They help with ensuring cyber security. Reference architecture with the certified infrastructures for Cloudera and MongoDB allow customers to use the tested systems, the reliable expert knowledge and the recommended practicians developed for many years of data management emphasized Hitachi Vantara.

Availability

As of June 13, all presented the Hitachi UCP systems and application solutions are already available to customers in some countries, in the others will appear in the market in August, 2018.

2017

Product output of UCP CI and UCP Advisor 2.0

On September 26, 2017 the Hitachi Vantara company announced release on the market of family of the convergent infrastructure systems – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) CI. At the same time the company provided Hitachi UCP Advisor 2.0 technology – generation of the software for automation and product management of a line of UCP.

According to developers, these technologies will help to create the flexible high-performance platform of a corporate class for consolidation of storage systems, computing resources and network elements with carefully thought over and expanded software tools of automation and management.

Possibilities of Hitachi UCP Advisor

• Simplification of deployment of programs due to automatic configuring of physical and virtual environments with an opportunity to minimize time of idle times, to manage automatically lifecycle, to execute monitoring and to send notifications about operability of the equipment.
• The expanded automation equipment providing integration with environments of management of DPC.
• The intuitive interface supporting the joint management of the convergent and hyper convergent UCP systems and also systems based on rack architecture.

Possibilities of the Hitachi UCP CI systems

• Integration into the software of UCP Advisor, it provides automated management, coordinating and monitoring.
• Consolidation of systems capabilities of storage of a corporate class Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and processors of the sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable for creation of the flexible, highly productive and easily configured systems capable to support any corporate applications of any scale in any cloud environments.
• Scaling from the systems of initial level before support of crucial applications and deployment in enterprise scales.
• Delivery in the form of certified, integrated and ready to system operation.
• Rational and effective management of assets of business data, the organization of work with them and mobile access to territories of the customer and in cloud environments.

In assortment of solutions of the UCP RS system with architecture of Rack-scale, the created based on VMware Cloud Foundation, hyper convergent UCP HC systems added with opportunities of acceleration of a non-volatile memory (NVMe).

The software tool UCP Advisor 2.0 can be used in combination with any of the UCP systems.

The UCP CI systems are available to customers of all countries. UCP Advisor 2.0 will appear in the market later in 2017.

Release of a series of the products Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) corporation, affiliated enterprise Hitachi, Ltd. and the OEM partner of year of VMware company in global innovations, provided a series of the products Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) RS. Solutions represent completely integrated platform of architecture Rack-scale for software-defined data processing centers (SDDC) created based on VMware Cloud Foundation technology.

The Hitachi UCP RS platform will allow business to involve hybrid cloud solutions at an output of products and services to the market. The solution will also give to the enterprises the chance to freely optimize investments into IT, flexibly supplementing the business systems with private and public cloud services. Using the UCP RS company will be able not only to unroll the integrated stack of SDDC, but also to create own DPC, using the certified solution Hitachi vSAN Ready Node and the software of VMware.

Along with release Hitachi UCP RS, the company entered a number of improvements into the hyper convergent Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC system. Hybrid and all-flash of the Hitachi UCP HC system are complemented with modules of a non-volatile memory (NVMe) and processors of the sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor now. Are involved in these solutions modern technologies of DPC by means of which are reached reduction of delays in work of IT and the accelerated processing of workloads, emphasized in HDS.

Understanding requirements imposed to the IT organizations by programs of upgrade of DPC, Hitachi together with VMware works on creation of the Hitachi UCP RS system, completely integrated and ready to use, which will help business with creation of reliable IT infrastructure for deployment of hybrid cloud solutions. Hitachi UCP RS also helps to minimize complexity of processes of deployment and management of IT systems — it occurs due to use of the automation equipment of configuring, management and monitoring for SDDC. Such functionality of IT solutions is capable to open a possibility of an entry into the new markets for business, to accelerate an output of products and services and to support high availability of business applications, claim in the company.

Creation of the innovative solutions helping customers to upgrade the IT environment and to make data the center of business activity became result of our cooperation with VMware — the vice president of Hitachi for marketing of integrated solutions Bob Madaio said. — Putting on the market the solution UCP RS in addition to our hyper convergent UCP HC platform, Hitachi opens for customers of an opportunity for conversion of information environments, acceleration of deployments of the hybrid cloud systems and further promotion of initiatives in the field of digital business.

The solutions Hitachi UCP RS are available to customers and partners in all regions.

2016

Support of VMware NSX networks

On August 31, 2016 the Hitachi Data Systems Corporation company announced support of the virtualization platform of VMware NSX networks.

Users of the solutions Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) had an opportunity to use properties of the NSX platform - the automated deployment of applications based on full-fledged network services and enhanced capabilities of network virtualization. Besides, NSX will help business to increase reliability of IT systems by means of microsegmentation and to use of the detailed security policies.

Now Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC V240 (UCP HC) supports technology of the containers Docker.

The upgraded functionality does UCP HC by the reliable platform, both for traditional, and for cloud applicaions. According to the statement of the company, this solution will give to business the chance to increase maneuverability of IT infrastructure and to accelerate transition to a hybrid cloud.

Our customers follow a way of conversions of business using digital technologies. In such conditions transition to the IT environment constructed on the basis of convergent and software-defined infrastructure from modern DWH based on a flash memory becomes a necessity. Specialists Hitachi Data Systems|of HDS are glad to continue partnership with VMware and to direct our general customers to transition to a business model "infrastructure as service". Bob Madaio, vice president of Hitachi Data Systems for marketing of infrastructure solutions

UCP 2000

On June 29, 2016 the Hitachi Data Systems corporation announced release of the convergent Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 2000 system (UCP 2000) and UCP HC V240 platform^[1].

The presented solutions are flexible, scalable technologies for the enterprises which followed a way of digital transformation. Developed on the basis of technologies of Hitachi, they will help the companies to reduce risk of violation of data availability, to reduce costs and to reduce complexity of infrastructures, accelerating obtaining benefit.

In the course of conversion of the company to a digital format data become the central element of business strategy. Convergent solutions offer the fastest deployment of infrastructure which, in turn, is capable to support the virtualized environment. It allows heads of IT departments to manage flexibly costs, to improve company services, to meet the increasing expectations of business and to find new levers of profit earning. The range of use of family of the solutions Hitachi UCP is very wide: these technologies can become both basic components of a data processing center, and network edge, providing accomplishment of any requirements to corporate information systems. Thomas Trela, the senior director of HDS according to solutions and cloud infrastructures

The Hitachi UCP 2000 systems simplify and accelerate deployment of private and hybrid cloud services. Support of configurations entirely based on a flash memory and use of modular architectural components allow to achieve the necessary level of flexibility. At the same time computing means, resources of storage and network connections are capable to be scaled independently and guarantee smooth operation at the most different applied loadings. The UCP 2000 systems are developed for support of several environments of virtualization, such, for example, as VMware with which they are used as the certified equipment for the VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node program and also Microsoft and OpenStack. They allow a possibility of flexible transition to convergent infrastructures without high risks and are ideal for general applications, infrastructures of the virtual desktop systems (VDI), databases and development environments and testing. Thus, UCP 2000 represents the system of initial level simple focused on increase in benefit in deployment and management. It provides close integration with the VMware vRealize platform and management tools VMware vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management storage (SPBM) and supports the developed HDS technologies of data protection.

UCP HC V240

Product in a line of the hyper convergent solutions Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC).

Hitachi UCP HC V240 is the universal hyper convergent hardware-software solution. This system gives the chance to create on a centralized basis - the managed pools of resources of the virtual machines (VM) with flexibly organized consumption on the basis of defined at the level of VM the politician which if necessary can be changed.

UCP HC V240 provides the high performance and scalability of IT infrastructure of business without prejudice to simplicity and profitability. A system underwent joint certification on the VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node program and functions on the platform of a stack of hyper convergent software from VMware.

Hitachi Data Systems issues convergent platforms for SAP HANA

In May, 2016 HDS announced a series of the solutions Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for SAP HANA developed based on the newest models of the Intel processors XEON E5 and E7.

The Hitachi UCP 1000 platform for SAP HANA will be suitable for testing and new product development of business and also for small and medium corporate infrastructures. While the UCP 6000 systems are capable to meet the highest requirements of applications of data processing centers. The possibility of dynamic movement on levels of storage (Dynamic Tiering) of UCP 6000 for SAP HANA will reduce information storage costs: actively used data will migrate in memory, and seldom required, on the contrary, will go to cheaper storage. Quickly will allow to turn information into a resource, valuable to business, the means of analytics which are separately developed for UCP 6000 able to consolidate data from different applications sources.

HDS continues to make investments in upgrade of the complex of convergent infrastructure solutions that clients of the company could monetize quicker data and benefit by the investments into IT. HDS also states that the UCP 6000 system will be transferred to laboratory of joint innovations SAP Co-Innovation Lab. There achievements of partners will be used for development and testing of new projects and also for demonstration of reference architecture. This project will completely be approved with the concept of SAP Co-Innovation Lab: in every possible way to assist SAP company and its partners in creation of the innovative solutions, working on reduction of risks and acceleration of an output of products to the market.

2014

Unified Compute Platform supports SVOS and VSP G1000

On April 23, 2014 the Hitachi Data Systems corporation announced addition to support of VSP G1000 and SVOS in the solution UCP for VMware vSphere.

New configurations of initial level are provided in the solution, and possibilities of UCP Director are expanded functions of profiling of servers for the simplified configuring of resources and the improved integration with recovery tools after accidents.

Expansion of opportunities Hitachi UCP Director

Software of UCP Director allows administrators to receive the most detailed data and also to manage and coordinate work not only virtual servers, but also subordinate physical infrastructure. For coordinating of operation of servers, networks and storage systems administrators will be able to use the graphical user interface VMware vCenter already familiar to them.

On October 28, 2014 the Hitachi Data Systems Corporation company announced start of expansions for the UCP platform (Unified Compute Platform) which optimize, accelerate process of creation of cloud infrastructure and management of it.

As a part of the convergent platform with enhanced capabilities of UCP from Hitachi the new interfaces of access to VMware vCloud Air and Microsoft Azure expected any organization preferring to create private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, to manage it.

Updated software of Hitachi UCP Director expands possibilities of service IT regarding creation and implementation of private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, providing control over physical and virtual components by means of the transparent universal level of the management supporting solutions of Microsoft and VMware.

The company noted: the present solution UCP supports integration into Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 systems and VMware vCenter Server "from a box" by means of what specialists of the customer can perform all necessary administrative and operational procedures, using familiar tools.

Combination of the Hitachi UCP platform to the solution Hitachi Cloud – Compute as a Service HDS expands a concept of "The IT systems determined by requirements of business". The new paradigm of solutions, on the one hand, has flexibility and elasticity of cloud storages, with another — ensures the safety of the corporate level characteristic of private data processing centers.

Hitachi UCP Select for VMware vSphere

Hitachi UCP Select: a number of the checked standard configurations which form from the storage systems selected by the customer of servers and managing software of Hitachi and intend for service of different applications. Thanks to flexibility of the solution it is possible to turn on in its structure at the request of the customer the Cisco UCS servers (Unified Computing Systems). Hitachi UCP Select are optimal for the organizations which need flexible convergent infrastructure without the special coordinating software.

The standard solutions Hitachi UCP Select represent the structure checked in practice which accelerates deployment of systems and reduces risks at deployment on the scale of DPC. The tested elements of a convergent system necessary for them which can be created or based on storage systems and servers of Hitachi and the network switches Brocade, or based on storage systems of Hitachi with the UCS servers and network equipment of Cisco allow customers to select such solutions flexibly.

The solution UCP Select for VMware vSphere with servers and network equipment of Cisco represents a combination of storage systems of Hitachi with the UCS servers and network equipment of Cisco as the certified Cisco Validated Design (CVD) project checked for compatibility with VMware vSphere. This solution among other allows the organizations to win at the expense of the coordinated interaction between products of VMware, Cisco and HDS.

The lineup of the standard solutions UCP Select on the basis of storage systems and servers of Hitachi and network equipment of Brocade supports work of such software technologies as hypervisors, databases, analytical and the application software, including the products Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware. IT specialists can just select infrastructure options most of which of all meet their needs and at the same time differ in flexibility and compatibility, allowing to scale architecture in process of business growth. In total nine new standard solutions UCP Select – for Citrix Xen Desktop, Microsoft Exchange 2010 Microsoft Private Cloud, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012 are proposed Oracle Database SAP HANA, VMware View and vSphere.

Hitachi UCP Select is the convergent system capable to meet the requirements of crucial tasks.

The standard solutions Hitachi UCP Select represent the structure checked in practice which accelerates deployment of systems and reduces risks at deployment on the scale of data processing centers. Such solutions allow customers and partners to select flexibly the tested elements of a convergent system necessary for them which can be created or based on storage systems and servers of Hitachi and the network switches Brocade, or based on storage systems of Hitachi with the UCS servers and network equipment of Cisco.

UCP Select for VMware vSphere with servers and network equipment of Cisco

This solution represents a combination of storage systems of Hitachi with the UCS servers and network equipment of Cisco as the certified Cisco Validated Design (CVD) project checked for compatibility with VMware vSphere. Having a number of technical and economic advantages, the solution also allows the organizations to win at the expense of the coordinated interaction between products of VMware, Cisco and Hitachi Data Systems – three leaders in the industry, each of which is known for the innovative solutions, high-quality service and great technical support.

The lineup of the standard solutions UCP Select on the basis of storage systems and servers of Hitachi and network equipment of Brocade supports work of such important software technologies as hypervisors, databases, analytical and the application software, including products Citrix Microsoft Oracle, SAP and VMware. IT specialists can just select infrastructure options most of which of all meet their needs and at the same time differ in flexibility and compatibility, allowing to scale architecture in process of business growth. Together with solutions complex standard architecture and the guides to their deployment are also offered. The company proposes nine new standard solutions UCP Select:

• Hitachi UCP Select for Citrix Xen Desktop
• Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft Private Cloud
• Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Hitachi UCP Select for Oracle Database
• Hitachi UCP Select for SAP HANA
• Hitachi UCP Select for VMware View
• Hitachi UCP Select for VMware vSphere

2013

Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track

The Hitachi Data Systems corporation announced in May, 2013 that the solution Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud completely maintains the architecture of Private Cloud Fast Track of version 3 developed by Microsoft corporation. The solution provides support of Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, the corresponding packets of monitoring, cmdlets of PowerShell and integration of means of coordinating. It combines computing powers and advantages of storage systems of Hitachi with industry-leading opportunities of virtualization and the network technologies, best in the class.

The solution Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud allows to apply the simplified approach to creation of the scalable, in advance configured and checked infrastructure platforms intended for creation of a private cloud. Thanks to direct supervision over data and transactions customers can dynamically select, distribute and manage resources, providing flexible service according to the IaaS model or "the platform as service" (PaaS). The same way business divisions have an opportunity to quickly unroll proprietary customized applications in the self-configured automated data processing centers working in virtual environment.

The Hitachi Data Systems company became one of the first OEM-Microsoft partners on program implementation of Private Cloud Fast Track. Presented the first solutions for architecture of Microsoft Private Cloud HDS at the beginning of 2011; solutions for Microsoft Private Cloud of version 2 appeared in 2012, and today the company announced release of solutions for version 3.

These new reference architecture of HDS and Microsoft provide effective integration with Virtual Machine Manager as a part of System Center 2012 and also a possibility of transparent migration of virtual machines in real time within one object and between several objects deleted from each other on distance up to 200 km. The solution Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud also supports all configuration functions and granting computing resources and resources of DWH thanks to what customers can quickly configure virtual machines with a full support of the Orchestrator component as a part of System Center 2012. A potential of virtualization of heterogeneous storages which have Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Unified Storage VM allow the companies to increase investment soundness in the supported storage systems of third-party suppliers.

Convergent solutions - high competitive capacity

The Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) corporation announced on July 11, 2013 a release of the upgraded infrastructure solutions as a part of which the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) platform.

As a part of the new platform VMware vSphere Microsoft Private Cloud Oracle Database of the solution Hitachi UCP Pro for, UCP Select for and UCP Select for Real Application Cluster.

The updated platform:

• allows to reduce terms of an output of products/services to the market due to implementation less than for week of new convergent infrastructure solutions and the integrated computing solutions for support of private cloud infrastructures.
• facilitates control functions and increases utilization, providing decrease by 30% of total cost of ownership (TCO) for four years.
• provides double superiority over competitors on performance during the work with applications, critical for business, opening a possibility of more quick access to information due to use of storages on a basis a flash memory and modern server technologies.

2012

The Hitachi Data Systems corporation, Hitachi affiliated enterprise, announced in the fall of 2012 release of a wide range of products for creation of convergent infrastructure. Storage systems, servers, network equipment and managing softwares united in the integrated packets for the solution of crucial tasks entered it. The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) platform offers ready models of creation of the cloud infrastructure simple in deployment and management. It differs in it from the individual configurations selected to order which require big costs for testing and integration. Eleven new products of a lineup Hitachi UCP give ample opportunities of the choice on the basis of two options of convergent infrastructure.

Hitachi UCP Pro

Hitachi UCP Pro: "turnkey" ready-made integrated solutions which part servers and storage systems from HDS and normal network equipment are. The first product from this series – the UCP Pro platform for VMware vSphere with UCP Director software which is responsible for management and coordination with VMware vCenter.

All solutions Hitachi UCP for convergent infrastructures are designed so that to solve problems of reliability, availability, scalability and performance which the IT companies when using a number of convergent infrastructures of earlier generations face.

Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere gives ample opportunities to automation, coordination and monitoring of physical infrastructure from managing software of VMware vCenter. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is the integrated solution first for today completed by a storage system of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), the Brocade switches, a blade servers of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 and software of VMware vSphere and UCP Director. Software simplifies work and reduces costs due to integration with VMware vCenter.

Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere

UCP Pro for VMware vSphere – the integrated solution, the first for October 11, 2012, completed by an industry-leading storage system of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), the Brocade switches, a blade servers Hitachi Compute Blade 500 and the software of VMware vSphere and UCP Director.

This software allows to simplify work and to reduce costs due to unique integration with VMware vCenter, offering a full range of convenient opportunities for infrastructure management. Besides, UCP Pro unlike all other analogs allows to add thousands of virtual machines easily.

The software of UCP Director has unique capability: it allows administrators to receive the most detailed data and also to manage and coordinate work not only virtual servers, but also subordinate physical infrastructure. In the software of UCP Director for coordinating of operation of servers, networks and storage systems administrators will be able to use the graphical user interface VMware vCenter already familiar to them and to leave from labor-consuming, manual activities and the related errors.

The UCP Pro for VMware vSphere platform thanks to the software of UCP Director delivered in a set offers the powerful platform for virtual machines, flexibility providing so necessary for the organizations and maneuverability. It is reached at the expense of the powerful abilities to manage provided in the solution, configuring, monitoring and fault recovery on the scale of all infrastructure, both virtual, and physical, using standard means of VMware vCenter Server. The standard solutions UCP Select offer flexibility in the choice of components (servers, storage systems and network equipment) with preserving of all advantages which are previously tested, the certified architecture intended for work of the most exacting applications".

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