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This blog provides the key considerations and best practices for setting up global-active device effectively. Introduction Global-active device (GAD) is a data mirroring technology that enables high availability and disaster recovery for storage systems, allowing you to maintain synchronous copies of data at remote sites. To ensure optimal performance and resilience, it is crucial to follow best practices when configuring global-active device. What is Global-Active Device? Global-active device is a technology designed to ensure high availability ...
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Introduction This blog introduces the essential APIs for managing Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One Block 20 (VSP One B20) storage systems: Hitachi Ops Center API Configuration Manager REST API (CMREST)   Hitachi Virtual Storage One Block Platform REST API (PFREST) VSP One Block Administrator API   Users have access to a wide range of APIs for managing VSP One Block 20 storage, providing significant flexibility to customize their storage solutions. However, this increased flexibility can sometimes result in reduced clarity. This blog delves into the various APIs offered for VSP One Block 20 storage systems ...
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Author: @Malaya Acharya Introduction The Thin Image Advanced snapshot software enables you to rapidly create point-in-time copies of mission-critical information within the storage system or virtualized storage pool without impacting host service or performance levels. Compared to Thin Image, Thin Image Advanced significantly improves Split state performance and copy operations elapsed time. The enhancements are because of the change in how data is written after a snapshot pair is split. For Thin Image Advanced, Data Reduction Shared (DRS) volumes with Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) enabled are used. Because ADR stores data in 8 ...
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Introduction Universal Replicator (UR) provides a solution for the recovery of processing operations when a data center is affected by a disaster situation. In a Universal Replicator implementation, a secondary storage system is located at a remote site from the primary storage system at the main data center, and the data on the primary volumes (P-VOLs) at the primary site is asynchronously copied to the secondary volumes (S-VOLs) at the remote site.   REF   _Ref168675827 \h   \* MERGEFORMAT Figure 1 08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F005200650066003100360038003600370035003800320037000000 shows an ...
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In an era where businesses are defined by the services and capabilities provided to end customers, choosing the best in-class storage system in conjunction with a premier compute system is key to business success. With multiple vendors, it becomes more difficult to gauge what features and capabilities would actually meet the target ROI to not only sustain but grow their business. Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) consist of systems and solutions that have been designed, tested, and documented to facilitate and improve customer deployments. That is where the experience of Hitachi and Cisco join to provide the Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution (CHAS) which ...
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ShadowImage Best Practices

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This blog provides a brief introduction and a set of best practices for one of the core copy program products on the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP): ShadowImage (SI). Introduction Hitachi ShadowImage uses local mirroring technology that you can use to create and maintain full copies of data volumes within a storage system. Using ShadowImage volume copies (for example, backups, secondary host applications, data mining, and testing) allows you to continue working without stopping host application input/output (I/O) on the production volume. A typical configuration consists of a storage system, a host connected to the storage ...
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Introduction This blog compares the performance of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One Block (VSP One Block) Administrator API and Hitachi Storage Advisor Embedded API across commonly used storage operations. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E790 (VSP E790) storage system is a predecessor to the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One Block 28 (VSP One B28) storage system. We conducted a comparative analysis to measure the performance improvement in the newer VSP One B28 model. This analysis examined the key operations run on the VSP One Block Administrator API (VSP One B28) versus the Hitachi Storage Advisor Embedded API (VSP E790).   ...
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Objective When a storage system is registered with the API Configuration Manager (CMREST) Server   , the default communication mode between the REST API server and the storage system is set to lanConnectionMode (Out-of-band). However, the processing speed of the API Configuration Manager server is faster in fcConnectionMode (In-band) . This blog shows how to change the communication mode of the API Configuration Manager (CMREST) Server from lanConnectionMode to fcConnectionMode to achieve faster processing speeds. Environment ●        A Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series (VSP 5000 series) ...
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Unleash the Power of Automation with VSP One Block Storage Modules for Red Hat Ansible Author: Liam Yu, Senior Product Solutions Marketing Manager , Integrated Systems at Hitachi Vantara Envision a world where creativity and collaboration reign supreme in the realm of artificial intelligence. This year the Red Hat Summit 2024 heralded a new era, one where the open-source ethos transforms open-source generative AI. Imagine a landscape where proprietary models are relics of the past, and businesses flourish with a diverse array of AI models, as accessible and modifiable as a community garden. Red Hat foresees a future where AI isn’t just a tool ...
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Introduction The data-at-rest encryption feature, called Encryption License Key, protects your sensitive data against breaches associated with storage media, such as loss or theft. The Encryption License Key feature provides controller-based encryption, along with the following benefits:   ·         Hardware-based Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption using 256-bit keys in XTS mode of operation, is provided. ·         Encryption can be applied to some or all supported internal drives. ·         Each encrypted internal drive is protected with a unique Data Encryption Key (DEK). ·         ...
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Comparing the SVP Performance with SVPA for Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series (VSP 5000 Series) Storage Systems   Sou Saechao Hardware Test Engineer   Recently, I had the opportunity to ensure the quality of the replacement for the onboard Service Processor (SVP) that resides in our Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series (VSP 5000 series) enterprise storage systems. The testing was to determine whether the new SVP model performs comparably or better than the original. First, we ran 10 common storage management tasks using the Storage Navigator software with the original SVP. Next, on the same storage system, we swapped the ...
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Enabling customers to deliver consistent user experiences and increased market responsiveness with modern cloud infrastructure and services is at the core of our DNA. At Cisco Live Las Vegas in June, we will showcase our data foundation for innovation with simplified management, extension into public clouds, consistent operational experience, hybrid cloud consumption , and insights into distributed operating environments. Come and visit us at World of Solutions at booth #5634 . Hybrid Cloud Platform Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Hitachi’s VSP One platform is available to deliver a reliable data foundation for innovation ...
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Ops Center Protector version 7.7 introduced several new features for data protection and availability including the capability to allow snapshots on the tertiary site in a global-active device (GAD) 3DC with failover environment. This blog shows you how to configure the setup so that snapshots work in this type of environment.   The 3-2-1 backup is an ever-green backup and recovery method that ensures data is protected and available when needed. The basic concept of this strategy is having three copies (one primary and two backups) of the production data. We can achieve this with a 3DC setup with failover. However, there could be a scenario where ...
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With the introduction of VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) restore over SAN with Ops Center Protector v7.6, protected VMs can now be restored using VMware SAN as the transport mode. This method can efficiently pass virtual disk data between a VM and the proxy because no data traverses the LAN. Our objective is to test: ·        Data Protection policies combined with data flow diagrams to automate local backups and replications for end-to-end data protection using VMware SAN transport mode. ·        Recovery Solutions to revert production VMs to a specific point in time and create copies using VMware SAN transport ...
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We have witnessed a variety of trends over the years, but one element remains constant, we all operate on data. As data requirements become more infused into every aspect of our professional and personal existence, data protection is rightly top of mind. In fact, so much so, that regulators have taken an aggressive approach:  first, putting into place guidelines around personally identifiable information, and second, as we enter 2024, moving toward expanding regulation to the protection of all data from cyber threats. While data becomes imperative to our daily operation, the availability and protection of this data becomes critical for companies propelling ...
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Today, data is the key to everything; if we aren’t protecting our data, we aren’t doing enough. Even when we protect our data, we must ensure that it’s backed up correctly and that we can restore it when required. At Hitachi, we’re attempting to achieve something similar for our Ops Center applications. Until now, we could back up and restore individual Ops Center applications using the command line. However, with Protector 7.7, we can now schedule backups of the Ops Center products and restore them using the UI. This blog shows how to back up and restore Ops Center applications using Ops Center Protector. These applications include Administrator, ...
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As the collaboration between Cisco and Hitachi continues to expand, Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage administration capabilities from Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) have grown, enabling it to handle a majority of tasks that were previously exclusive to native Hitachi management tools, such as Hitachi Storage Navigator, Ops Center, or Unified Compute Platform Advisor. Many customers will benefit from the saved time and improved usability when using Cisco Intersight, providing a single pane of glass to manage not only their compute and virtualized resources but also their underlying storage, with the added advantage of automation workflows ...
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To make sure that the introduction of SVP3A doesn’t degrade the performance of common storage management tasks, we measured the performance of a set of common storage management tasks by using Storage Navigator. This blog illustrates the performance of Storage Navigator running on the new, enhanced SVP3A hardware compared to the performance running on the existing SVP3 hardware.   Test Procedure   To ensure that there was no performance degradation between SVP3 and SVP3A, we performed a common set of storage management tasks using Storage Navigator on SVP3 and SVP3A with the default configuration and with a modified configuration. ...
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Easy FC-NVMe Provisioning in Ops Center Administrator 10.9.3   Ops Center Administrator v10.9.3 includes a new feature for managing FC-NVMe resources and FC-NVMe provisioning. Usually, the NVMe concept comes with many things like subsystem, namespace, NQN, and so on, which can cause confusion. However, Administrator does its magic by hiding these internal complexities from end users by managing them internally. In this blog, we’ll discuss how easily a storage administrator can provision volumes to an FC-NVMe resource by using Ops Center Administrator v10.9.3.   This blog consists of the following sections:   ·        NVMe architecture ...
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Reverting from a Hitachi HA820 server to an HPE DL380 Gen 10 server Sou Saechao Hardware Test Engineer   Software Integration Solutions Introduction Recently, I had a server that was converted from an HPE DL380 Gen 10 to a Hitachi HA820 for testing purposes. Now I have a problem because the HPE iLO Advanced license that we purchased with the server is no longer active and cannot be added. To solve my problem, I worked with HPE support team to revert the server back to an HPE DL380 Gen 10 with the original iLO Advanced license. In this blog, I’ll go over the steps we completed to make this happen. First, you can see the iLO ...
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