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Live Mount: When Recovery Can't Wait for the Restore

By James Byrne posted yesterday
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 ...

Automating VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with Hitachi VSP One Block and Ansible

By Ramakrishna Manupuri posted 7 days ago
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 ...

Next Gen Hybrid Cloud with Hitachi Software Defined Storage on AWS and Cross-platform Replication

By Jaydeep Malode posted 8 days ago
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 ...

How to Install Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) on the VMware Environment

By Soham Biswas posted 15 days ago
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, ...

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 15 days ago
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 ...

Building a Resilient Hybrid Cloud PostgreSQL DR Architecture with Hitachi VSP One Block and Google Cloud

By Jaydeep Malode posted 16 days ago
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 ...

Monitoring LDEV formatting on a Hitachi Array

By Vinod Subramaniam posted 28 days ago
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

Automating Rolling Firmware Updates for Azure Local & Windows Hyper-V Clusters with Ansible

By Imran Shaik posted 05-11-2026
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 ...

What We’re Bringing to Red Hat Summit 2026 — and Why It Matters

By Jeff Cheng posted 05-10-2026
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 ...

New Hitachi Vantara CSI turbocharging Red Hat OpenShift / Virtualization

By Paul Morrissey posted 05-10-2026
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 ...

Unlocking Storage‑Speed Recovery with Veeam and Hitachi USAPI v2.2

By Muthuraman Deivanayagam posted 04-15-2026
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 ...

Advanced Snapshots to Immutability: IRIS database Protection on Hitachi VSP via HDPS

By Dipta Kundu posted 04-07-2026
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 ...

Automating NVMe/TCP Setup Between VMware ESXi and Hitachi VSP One Block with Ansible

By Vinod Subramaniam posted 04-01-2026
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                         ...

Scalability and Configuration Guidelines for LUN and Pod Density in RedHat OpenShift with Cisco UCS and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

By Arvin Jami posted 03-31-2026
As enterprise Kubernetes deployments continue to scale, aligning infrastructure limits across compute, storage, and orchestration layers becomes critical. In environments combining Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS), and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) with Hitachi Container Storage Interface (CSI), Logical Unit Number (LUN) scalability and pod density are tightly coupled variables that directly impact performance, stability, and operational predictability. This blog outlines key configuration limits and design considerations to help ensure a balanced, scalable deployment. Cisco UCS Virtual Interface ...

How to Configure FC-NVMe in AIX with Hitachi VSP One Block 20 Series Storage

By Surajit Choudhury posted 03-31-2026
Overview & Objectives: This blog offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for provisioning Fibre Channel Non-Volatile Memory Express (FC-NVMe) storage disks—specifically Non-DRS volumes—from the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One Block 20 (VSP One B20) family to IBM POWER servers running the IBM AIX operating system, using Hitachi RAID Manager (CCI) . Beyond basic provisioning, this guide explores essential configuration tasks, including: ·          Setting up multipathing for high availability ·          Modifying default device parameters in the Hitachi AIX Object Data Manager (ODM) ·          ...

Index Engine's CyberSense Policy Job Phases

By Malaya Acharya posted 03-31-2026
Author: @Bhakta Sahoo Introduction This blog shows phases of cybersense policy execution. CyberSense Overview CyberSense helps organizations recover from ransomware quickly and reliably by ensuring trusted data integrity. It’s the only cyber resilience solution that uses AI trained on real ransomware to detect ransomware-induced data corruption with 99.99% accuracy—so you can identify clean recovery points, restore clean data, and minimize the impact of a cyber-attack. Policy job phases and Actions The CyberSense workflow follows a sophisticated, multi-phase process that begins with system authentication ...

Index Engine’s CyberSense Configuration and Scan on VSP One B20

By Malaya Acharya posted 03-31-2026
Author: @Bhakta Sahoo Introduction This blog provides a detailed overview of the installation, configuration, and volume scanning process in Index Engine’s CyberSense. CyberSense is a cybersecurity and data integrity software solution developed by Index Engine. It is designed to detect ransomware attacks, data corruption, and other malicious activities in block data by analyzing Thin Image Advanced safe snaps.   Environment                                                             Figure 1:  Index Engine environment ...

Universal Replicator Journals for Hitachi Open Systems

By Shubhadip Pal posted 03-31-2026
Introduction Universal Replicator (UR) operations involve two storage systems. One of the systems is located at the primary site, called main control unit, and the other system is located at the secondary site, called remote control unit. The primary storage system controls the P-VOL and the following operations: Host I/Os to the P-VOL P-VOL data copy to the master journal The secondary storage system controls the S-VOL and the following operations: Initial copy and update copy between the P-VOL and the restore journal Journal commands to the primary storage system Journal data copy from the master journal to the restore ...