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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Storage Capabilities with Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS)

By Arvin Jami posted 09-03-2024
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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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Simplifying Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Cisco Live

By posted 05-17-2024
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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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Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series – Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and ICO Best Practices Guide Now Available

By Arvin Jami posted 01-24-2024
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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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Total Economic Impact of Hitachi HCI Appliance

By posted 08-11-2023
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Addressing Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Hitachi and VMware : Discover @ VMware Explore

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 08-02-2023
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Addressing Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Hitachi and VMware : Discover @ VMware Explore For modern enterprises, hybrid cloud promises profound opportunities yet poses substantial challenges. As businesses strive to innovate and compete, they need solutions to effectively balance these realities, enabling agile DevOps. The strategic integration of   Hitachi Vantara’s Unified Compute Platform (UCP) and VMware provides this equilibrium – helping IT and DevOps teams simplify complexity while development harnesses velocity.   The Hybrid Landscape: A Double-Edged ...
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)

By Arvin Jami posted 06-06-2023
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)  Target audience: Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition: Virtualizing legacy and third party storage systems through the Hitachi VSP system provides the ability to use Intersight management functionality for storage resources that are normally not supported by Cisco Intersight . Additionally, virtualized systems behind the Hitachi VSP gain access to all the features that are available internally via the Storage Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS). This includes ...
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UCP & GitOps to the Rescue: Streamlining Database Deployment on Hitachi UCP with OpenShift

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 06-01-2023
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Introduction In today's hybrid cloud ecosystems, advanced automation is a must for scalable and diverse IT infrastructure. GitOps offers a framework that uses Git as a central single source of truth, ensuring consistency, version control, and efficient sharing across projects. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) leverages GitOps-based solutions for customer-focused IT automation and management, driving competitive business growth. Dive into this blog post as we explore a GitOps-driven framework for deploying modern databases on Hitachi UCP Kubernetes Solution with ...
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Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Volume Snapshot Cascade Capability with Cisco ICO

By Arvin Jami posted 04-27-2023
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Target audience:  Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition:  Intersight users are now able to create multiple snapshots based on the same quiescent point whenever demand arises in a self-service manner, without having to ask for assistance from a storage administrator. Introduction In daily operations there are frequent situations where a copy of the current production data is required for other purposes, such as analyzing a copy of the production database or sharing select sales data with various regions or branch offices. Creating snapshots enables administrators to freeze that data at a particular ...
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INTRODUCTION TO GITOPS: REVOLUTIONIZING INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT FOR EDGE, ON-PREM, AND CLOUD SYSTEMS

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 04-19-2023
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Once upon a time, in the not-so-magical world of IT, professionals toiled day and night, grappling with clunky deployment processes, elusive configuration files, and the ever-present fear of breaking the system. It was a time of chaos and confusion, where developers and operations teams clashed like titans, and the sacred runbook held the key to survival. But fear not, for this is a story of triumph and redemption, as we explore why  GitOps principles emerged to bring order, collaboration, and a newfound sense of humor to the realm of IT. GitOps is a natural evolution of DevOps principles, and its growing popularity in the IT industry is no laughing matter. ...
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What is new with UCP Boulder Release (version 6.x)

By Sreeram Vankadari posted 04-07-2023
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Boulder release got delivered in multiple phases from August 2022 to December 2022.   Below blog summarizes the list of features delivered as part of this release. G720 switches   UCP CI introduced new FC switch option, Brocade G720 Brocade G720 brings in several benefits like 64G FC ports and better bundling price options.   There are sales promotions on G720 as well that can benefit our customers.   Brownfield deployment option is available where customers can add G720 to existing G620 fabric.   Green field deployments (All G720 fabric) are supported as well.   This also helps to address 32G SFP shortage situation.   ...
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UCP is now an Anthos Ready Platform validated by Google Cloud

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 03-17-2023
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As you may have seen, our team shared some updates on our hybrid cloud journey . As part of our mission to leverage the best of cloud ecosystems, we have been exploring Google Cloud Platform's Anthos, which is Google's cloud-centric container platform for running modern apps anywhere consistently at scale.  Now, Hitachi Vantara’s United Compute Platform (UCP) offers on-prem deployment options of  Anthos on premises (a component of Google Distributed Cloud Virtual, aka GDC Virtual) , which can provide greater performance potential for modernized applications while maintaining support for orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Service Mesh in hybrid multi-cloud ...
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Hitachi Storage Plug-in for Prometheus Custom Dashboard on Grafana

By Hossein Heidarian posted 09-06-2022
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Overview The Kubernetes monitoring system helps administrators recognize the issues in a Kubernetes cluster and implement proactive cluster management strategies. It simplifies management of a containerized infrastructure by tracking cluster resource utilization as well as CPU, memory, and storage. In Kubernetes, cluster operators monitor the cluster and send an alarm if the necessary number of pods are not running, if resource usage is close a critical limit, or if there is a failure or configuration error that barricades a pod or node from joining the cluster. There are number of tool available to achieve this. Some of the common tools are Grafana and ...
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Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Local Operational Copy Capability

By Arvin Jami posted 08-22-2022
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Data protection is top of mind for every application administrator to guarantee business continuity and zero down time for end users. For many legacy administrators, creating backups comes at a cost, whether offloading to another point of contact to create restore points with unsure turn around, or investing a magnitude of time in installing, deploying, and understanding a new interface to complete data copy operations. With Cisco ICO and Hitachi VSP, administrators now have the ability to take advantage of a single tool to manage, orchestrate, and restore data protection sets across the datacenter ecosystem managed by Cisco Intersight. Along with the ...
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Hitachi Persistent Storage Solution for Kubernetes environments

By Arvin Jami posted 06-06-2022
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Why persistent storage? As customers move to deliver new revenue-generating services to their end customers, we see IT development teams move aggressively to cloud-native techniques, including containers as the form factor to provide these application services. These containerized application services are hosted on Kubernetes clusters, that run across edge sites and private, hybrid, and service provider clouds.   As with any application service, data eventually needs to be persisted and stored reliably. This could be a customer’s grocery order placed from a mobile app or a data stream from a drone service that AI/ML models are analyzing. The data location ...
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Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series - Enhanced Intersight Capabilities with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

By Arvin Jami posted 01-21-2022
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As one of the first enterprise storage vendors to integrate with Cisco Intersight, Hitachi has enabled a magnitude of storage management capabilities that will now be able to be done via Cisco Intersight with the goal of saving end administrators time and frustration. Within Cisco Intersight management platform, admins can utilize the concept of tasks and workflows to easily manage their hybrid IT environments.  Tasks are essentially a library of functions which leverage API invoke calls that can be custom or provided by Cisco out of the box.  These tasks can be compiled to create workflows to enable quick and easy automation of infrastructure without being ...
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Hitachi HCI Gets a Performance Booster with Intel Ice Lake and Optane NVMe SSD

By posted 09-30-2021
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Since introducing the first all-NVMe Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) powered by Intel® Optane™ SSD P4800X in prior years (see the previous blog ) , we have seen steady adoption of our high-performance, compact HCI appliances. IT consolidation, business-critical app deployment, and tech refreshes have been the driving force behind the slow but steady transition from all-flash to all-NVMe HCI systems. New upgrades to Hitachi HCI include Intel’s 3 rd generation scalable processors (aka Ice Lake), Optane persistent memory, and RDMA technology to harness the potential of high-speed data processing capabilities introduces with Optane gen2 ...
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Hitachi UCP Advisor integrated with VMware vLCM

By Srinivas Ponnala posted 03-27-2021
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor) is now fully integrated with VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). What is UCP Advisor : UCP Advisor is an Infrastructure Automation and Management software for all Hitachi Converged, Hyperconverged (HCI) and Integrated Systems. It provides unified and federated management of compute, network and storage devices, and it is seamlessly integrated into vCenter as a Plug-in for single pane of glass experience to VI administrators. UCP Advisor provides capabilities such as Day 0 rapid deployments, inventory visibility with health notifications, generation of reports, lifecycle management of compute ...
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Resource Optimization with Hitachi HCI and vSAN HCI Mesh

By posted 03-09-2021
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) customers benefit from the flexibility of buy-as-you-grow economics provided by the scale-out architecture. Savings from the upfront investments in external storage infrastructure in exchange can be better utilized in other projects. However, certain scenarios require the independent scaling of compute and storage resources to better align with refresh cycles and resource consumption attributes of workloads. This independent scaling can be achieved using two different methods, depending on the use case, which we will discuss here today. As you will learn, Hitachi Vantara’s HCI platform (aka Unified Compute Platform ...
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