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Hitachi GAD with ALUA Delivers Local HA for SAP HANA

By Yingping Niu posted 6 days ago
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Hitachi GAD with ALUA Delivers Local HA for SAP HANA A real-world look at how Hitachi GAD and ALUA-based multipathing solved a single point of failure for SAP HANA Enterprise storage. Problem Statement A customer running a business-critical SAP HANA environment experienced a significant outage when one of their storage systems went down unexpectedly. SAP HANA became immediately unavailable, operations were disrupted, and recovery took far longer than the business could tolerate. The root cause was straightforward — no local high availability protection on the storage layer. A single failure was all it took. This is a rare case because ...
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Running CCI within Docker Containers

By Vinod Subramaniam posted 12 days ago
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How to run CCI in a docker container CCI can be run within docker containers. Why would you want to do this ?  Maybe you are on MacOS where there are no CCI binaries available. Sometimes you don't want to install any CCI binaries and/or run multiple versions of CCI. Here's how you can do this. Pull the container down from the Docker Hub (.venv) visubramaniam@MQ7HY4M9M0 b85_cci % docker pull docker.io/subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest latest: Pulling from subramaniamvi/azure-ee Digest: sha256:62f31722aec5e751044d58108696a931191384d9672b0a704ec347b19b0af641 Status: Image is up to date for subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest docker.io/subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest ...
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Conversational AI Assistant for VMware and Hitachi VSP One Operations, Powered by MCP and Hitachi Ansible modules

By Ramakrishna Manupuri posted 21 days ago
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Infrastructure teams spend a disproportionate amount of time on operations that are well-defined but tedious to execute by hand: scanning HBAs, provisioning storage, configuring FC zoning, standing up datastores. Each step is documented, repeatable, and critically   automatable.    The problem   isn’t   capability,   it’s   interface   with simplicity and automation in mind . Engineers   shouldn’t   need to context-switch between five tools and three runbooks to get a routine task done.   We built an   AI assistant that lets engineers interact with VMware vSphere and Hitachi VSP One   infrastructure using   ...
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Accelerating Customer Adoption of Red Hat OpenShift on Hitachi Vantara Storage

By Jeff Cheng posted 23 days ago
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Across the industry, organizations are rapidly modernizing their application environments. A clear trend emerging from recent customer data is the accelerating adoption of Red Hat OpenShift running on Hitachi Vantara storage platforms. Over the past year, customer deployments of OpenShift integrated with Hitachi storage have grown significantly, more than doubling in size. Even more compelling is the pace of change. Adoption is not just increasing, it is accelerating, with a noticeable inflection point beginning in early 2026. Figure   SEQ Figure \* ARABIC ...
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Expanding Infrastructure Choice with Proxmox VE and Hitachi Vantara VSP Storage

By Jeffrey Wheeler posted 26 days ago
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Announcing Support of Proxmox VE 9.1 with Hitachi VSP One Storage Platforms  Enabling a supported option for pairing open virtualization with trusted enterprise storage The decisions that customers need to make to plan, implement, and control their virtualization infrastructure are changing. There is constant pressure for more flexibility, more cost control, and more freedom to control how infrastructure evolves. Organizations are actively looking for robust, cost-effective, and open-source alternatives to regain control of infrastructure and budgets, but without sacrificing enterprise reliability or being forced into new HCI vendor silos. ...
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Live Mount: When Recovery Can't Wait for the Restore

By James Byrne posted 06-17-2026
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The recovery question behind Live Mount In backup and recovery conversations, speed often gets reduced to one familiar question: How fast can we restore? That question still matters, but it is not always the question the business is asking during an outage. Users, application owners, and business leaders are usually asking something more immediate: How fast can we make the service usable again? That is where Live Mount becomes valuable. With Hitachi Data Protection Suite (HDPS), powered by Commvault, Live Mount and related live recovery workflows can help organizations use protected backup copies more actively. Instead of waiting for every block ...
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Automating VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with Hitachi VSP One Block and Ansible

By Ramakrishna Manupuri posted 06-11-2026
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Ansible Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment with  Hitachi VSP  External Storage   Business Challenges   As enterprise IT environments grow increasingly complex, the demand for infrastructure solutions that combine speed, resilience, and operational simplicity has never been greater.   Hitachi VSP One   has   pivotal   capabilities that   can be   leveraged   to deploy   VMware Cloud Foundation 9, with its native support for Fibre Channel-based VMFS storage   — enabling organizations with established Hitachi VSP   One   to seamlessly adopt a modern cloud management framework without compromising ...
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Next Gen Hybrid Cloud with Hitachi Software Defined Storage on AWS and Cross-platform Replication

By Jaydeep Malode posted 06-10-2026
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Next Gen Hybrid Cloud with Hitachi   Software Defined Storage on AWS and   Cross-platform Replication As enterprises accelerate cloud modernization, hybrid cloud has become the preferred approach for balancing scalability, agility, and operational control. However, running stateful applications across on-premises and cloud environments introduce s   challenges around storage consistency, disaster recovery, and workload portability.       A new reference architecture from Hitachi Vantara addresses these challenges by combining:   Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon Web Services for ...
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How to Install Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) on the VMware Environment

By Soham Biswas posted 06-03-2026
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Introduction Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed object storage platform designed for scalable management of fixed-content data. It stores data as objects with associated metadata and provides access through URLs or standard file system interfaces. HCP organizes data into tenant-managed namespaces for efficient storage, protection, and retrieval across enterprise environments. Overview The test environment consists of a Hitachi Content Platform deployment running on a VMware vSphere HA cluster to provide high availability and service continuity during ESXi host failures.  The HCP cluster includes four VM nodes-HCP-VM1, HCP-VM2, ...
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FC-NVMe configuration for VMWare (local boot) using Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) with Hitachi VSP One Block High End (VSP One BHE) Storage System

By Srabasti Paul posted 06-03-2026
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FC-NVMe configuration for VMWare (local boot) using Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) with Hitachi VSP One Block High End (VSP One BHE) Storage System Introduction FC-NVMe stands for Fibre Channel Non-Volatile Memory Express (also sometimes referred to as NVMe over Fibre Channel, or NVMe/FC). It is a high-performance network protocol that allows NVMe storage commands to be sent over Fibre Channel networks. By replacing legacy SCSI commands with native NVMe protocols, it unlocks the true speed of modern solid-state drives (SSDs) across a shared data center network. In a typical enterprise deployment, servers connect to this high-speed ...
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Building a Resilient Hybrid Cloud PostgreSQL DR Architecture with Hitachi VSP One Block and Google Cloud

By Jaydeep Malode posted 06-02-2026
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Building a Resilient Hybrid Cloud PostgreSQL DR Architecture with Hitachi VSP One  Block  and Google Cloud   Modern enterprises face a relentless mandate: zero downtime and absolute data protection. While hybrid cloud strategies are the new standard, extending enterprise-grade Disaster Recovery (DR) into the cloud without sacrificing database performance or ballooning costs has historically been a massive headache.   Traditional secondary data centers are expensive, and standard cloud-native DR often struggles with the ultra-low latency   required   for mission-critical databases.   Enter a game-changing blueprint ...
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Monitoring LDEV formatting on a Hitachi Array

By Vinod Subramaniam posted 05-21-2026
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One of the commonly asked questions during pool creation is how can I track the format percentage of the LDEVS ? Below is a script that lets you monitor the format percentage. Shell Script to Monitor formatting Edit the script and change the below constants. INSTANCE = "H598" COUNT =57544 START =57344 PAUSE =60
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Automating Rolling Firmware Updates for Azure Local & Windows Hyper-V Clusters with Ansible

By Imran Shaik posted 05-11-2026
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Introduction Firmware upgrades in production environments are often treated with caution—and for good reason. A poorly executed update can lead to downtime, service disruption, or even cluster failure. This becomes even more critical in Azure Local & Windows Hyper-V clusters , where taking down nodes parallelly —even briefly—can bring everything offline. To solve this, we built a fully automated rolling firmware upgrade framework using Ansible, integrated with ILO   tooling like Smart Update Manager (SUM) and iLO REST (ilorest) . The goal was simple: Perform firmware updates without downtime , without manual intervention , and with ...
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What We’re Bringing to Red Hat Summit 2026 — and Why It Matters

By Jeff Cheng posted 05-10-2026
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If you’re heading to Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta, come find us at Booth 133 . We organized the booth around the conversations customers are actually having with us — not around product silos. The presentation comes with great navigation, so booth staff can jump directly to the topic that matters most: AI, virtualization modernization, cyber resilience, or trusted hybrid cloud. Think of it as four high-level stories — 100, 200, 300, and 400 — with sixteen solution areas underneath. Here’s the preview. 100 — Sustainable + Responsible AI ...
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New Hitachi Vantara CSI turbocharging Red Hat OpenShift / Virtualization

By Paul Morrissey posted 05-10-2026
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At Hitachi Vantara, we have been on a journey with some of the key vendors leveraging kubernetes to bring a strong virtualization infrastructure for virtual machines in addition to a container orchestration experience to meet the realities of our current and soon to be new enterprise customers. One of those partners is Red Hat and we are participating  and presenting our latest solutions at their Red Hat Summit 2026 this week. For Hitachi Vantara, we have key segments we serve including financial, healthcare, federal, technology and other key segments where expectations are high both from a reliable VSP One data storage services and/or integrated solution experience ...
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Unlocking Storage‑Speed Recovery with Veeam and Hitachi USAPI v2.2

By Muthuraman Deivanayagam posted 04-15-2026
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New Launch Alert!!!! Ransomware doesn't wait. Neither should your recovery. Hitachi Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication · USAPI v2.2 · Launch Thrilled to announce the launch of the Hitachi Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication (USAPI v2.2) — a significant step forward in enterprise data protection for Hitachi VSP storage environments. "When ransomware hits, the question isn't whether your data is backed up — it's whether your recovery is clean, fast, and guaranteed. This release answers that." What we built This release centers on deep snapshot-based integration between Veeam and Hitachi VSP ...
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Advanced Snapshots to Immutability: IRIS database Protection on Hitachi VSP via HDPS

By Dipta Kundu posted 04-07-2026
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This blog provides a deep, end-to-end walkthrough of how InterSystems IRIS database is protected, from intelligent content discovery to atomic application quiescence using the ExternalFreeze mechanism using HDPS. It further explores how Hitachi TIA SafeSnap snapshots are created and committed at the storage layer, and how these snapshots enable both rapid out-of-place recovery and long-term immutable tiering to VSP One Object storage. Section A: Introduction - Why Hardware Snapshots for IRIS?  The integration of InterSystems IRIS with Hitachi Virtual ...
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Automating NVMe/TCP Setup Between VMware ESXi and Hitachi VSP One Block with Ansible

By Vinod Subramaniam posted 04-01-2026
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Setting up NVMe over TCP between a VMware ESXi host and a Hitachi Vantara VSP One Block 28 storage array involves a lot of steps — creating storage volumes, configuring subsystems, setting up networking, and connecting everything together. Doing this manually is tedious and error-prone.   This post walks through a set of six Ansible playbooks that automate the entire process end-to-end. What You're Building The goal is simple: connect an ESXi host to a VSP One Block 28 over NVMe/TCP using two 100Gbps NICs for multipath connectivity. The automation handles both the storage side and the host side. ESXi Host                         ...
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