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Top 10 Reasons Why to Choose Hitachi Hyperconverged Systems
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HYPERCONVERGED SYSTEMS
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All-flash and hybrid configuration.
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Scale up to 6M IOPS (100K per node).
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pace efficiency: more than 5x
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improvement.
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Linear scale-out architecture.
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VSAN policy-based automation.
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Quality of service (QoS) per virtual
machine (VM).
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Smart life-cycle management.
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Advanced analytics.
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Near-zero recovery point objective
(RPO).
One-stop, 24/7 support.
Simplify IT, Reduce TCO and
Eliminate Risk
Modern IT departments are looking to
usher in digital transformation with reliable
infrastructure that can deliver cloudlike agility, with improved efficiency and
simplified manageability. Hitachi’s platform
of hybrid and all-flash hyperconverged
appliances enables businesses to drive
change and stay ahead of the competition.
See the next page for the top 10 reasons
why Hitachi hyperconverged solutions
are your best choice for smart business
operations.
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Top 10 Reasons
1. S
implicity Redefined. Hitachi hyperconverged solutions simplify data center
complexity with easier planning, procuring, installation and management of an
integrated stack of compute, storage and
virtualization. The tasks of deploying and
managing hyperconverged infrastructure
can be performed by an IT generalist, without requiring specialized storage skills.
Hitachi’s platform of hybrid and all-flash hyperconverged
appliances enables businesses to drive change and stay
ahead of the competition.
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or organizations having many remote or
branch offices, compact Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) is an
ideal solution: It maximizes resource utilization and improves operational efficiency
with power and space savings, while
eliminating complexity of managing these
systems. Single-pane-of-glass management with a virtual SAN (VSAN) provides
visibility into the entire infrastructure stack
and delivers predictive analytics for optimized resource utilization. Increase cluster
capacity by adding new nodes with just a
few clicks. Rich policy-based management
introduces advanced automation and
reduces the effort required to manage a
VM in its entire lifecycle, freeing IT teams to
focus on higher value-adding projects.
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aximize Efficiency. With a 2U form
factor, UCP HC delivers high VM density with predictable performance to
maximize your infrastructure return on
investment (ROI). The ability to leverage
software-defined data center elements
with industry-standard hardware reduces
the capital and operational expenses of
UCP HC. It significantly saves operational
overhead with its smaller data-center
footprint, resulting in lower power and
cooling expenses.
3. Flexibility. UCP HC
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enables businesses to
UCP HC
become more flexible
with its pay-as-you-grow
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deployment model. The
linear scale-out approach
provides investment
predictability, without requiring massive
upfront expenditure. Start with a single
appliance and grow as needed with small
increments of capacity and performance
from 1 to 16 appliances or 64 nodes.
After initial installation of three nodes,
you can grow in single-node increments,
bringing resources on board in a just-intime approach, avoiding overinvestment.
UCP HC allows you the flexibility in component configuration to meet IT needs,
specific to your applications.
4. Improved Agility. Pretested, prevalidated
UCP HC tightly integrates compute,
storage and virtualization that allows
provisioning of VMs in minutes. UCP HC
enables rapid and efficient application
provisioning with support for Docker containers, container-on-VM with VMware
vSphere Integrated Containers. VSAN
auto-configuration tool simplifies installation
of a full hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
solution (vSphere, VSAN and hardware),
making it easier to get production-ready.
5. S
calability. Designed for easy and rapid
scalability, UCP HC deployment can
begin with 3 nodes, and scale up to 64
nodes in a cluster. It delivers powerful performance to meet needs of a multitude
of applications with varying IOPS characteristics, from a single cluster. A cluster
of 64 ESXi servers can deliver more than
6M IOPS, with each node clocking more
than 100K IOPS to account for really
IOPS-intensive workloads, such as online
transaction processing (OLTP) and analytics. Other key use cases for UCP HC are
business applications, databases, virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI), DevOps,
branch offices and cloud hosting.
6. Industry-Leading IT Resilience.
UCP HC appliances extend the legendary
Hitachi availability to ensure availability and accessibility of VMs and data.
They provide native and optimized data
protection and disaster recovery solutions to deliver resilient infrastructure for
applications with near-zero downtime
tolerance. Built-in resilience can tolerate
the failure of a VM, host, rack or entire
site. Business-critical applications are
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provided rapid recovery to minimize data
loss with five-minute RPO with VMware
vSphere Replication. UCP HC provides
optimized data protection with native
integration with Hitachi Data Ingestor and
Hitachi Content Platform for remote and
back office (ROBO) and multilocation virtual desktop operations.
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mart Management. Data services are
strategically designed to work together
in a software-defined stack to deliver
a seamless experience to VM administrators. Dedupe, compression and
replication can be performed from intuitive management interface with just one
VSAN datastore, without requiring LUNs.
One datastore represents the characteristics of entire stack of underlying nodes.
CP HC provides a comprehensive
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dashboard to view VMs. Compute
and storage are viewable, with health
monitors for CPU, memory, storage
and VM usage for entire clusters, individual appliances and individual nodes.
As it leverages VMware’s core products, administrators can apply existing
VMware knowledge, best practices and
processes.
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8. VM-Centricity. UCP HC allows provisioning and granular data operations
to deliver QoS per VM. Making VMs
first-class citizens of your data center
improves resource utilization, while
meeting performance and availability
needs of each application. Using VSAN
policy-based management, vSphere
administrators assign a policy to each
VM, ensuring that right storage services
are delivered to VM to meet its requirement as expressed through policies.
9. Advanced Lifecycle Management.
Hitachi Compute Advisor provides smart
life-cycle management for your compute
infrastructure, enabling firmware upgrades,
centralized remote hardware monitoring
and power management. It also offers centralized management of power, firmware,
processors, chassis status, bios settings,
Ethernet ports and more.
10. Single Vendor. You have one vendor to
deal with for the life cycle of UCP HC,
from design to implementation. We
provide all-in-one support for the entire
hyperconverged appliance, including
hardware and software, eliminating
any finger-pointing among component
vendors. Dealing with one partner
streamlines the process and issues are
resolved faster. Hitachi’s global OEM
partnership with VMware means we
can provide preloaded VMware software, which reduces the IT workload,
and support from Hitachi.
For more information, please visit hds.com/
hyperconverged.
Next-generation Hitachi
hyperconverged solutions
provide a reliable platform
to meet the collective needs
of business applications,
databases, analytics,
virtual desktops, ROBO,
DevOps and cloud-hosting
deployments.
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