Learn how to gain velocity and agility within your VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment. View this webcast and learn how to: Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi. Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting thousands of VMs across the data center. Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmw

1. COMPREHENSIVE AND
SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT
FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
ENVIRONMENTS
MANJU RAMANATHPURA
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
NOVEMBER 14, 2012

2. WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere
Environments
Join us for a live webcast and learn how to gain velocity and agility within your
VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the
management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn
how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy
business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment.
Attend this webcast and learn how to
• Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and
converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi
• Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting
thousands of VMs across the data center
• Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware
vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers

3. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
November
 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi converged
platform, November 27, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Stay tuned for new WebTechs in January 2013!
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
 Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

4. AGENDA
 2012 global economic and IT outlook
 Challenges for the data center administrator
 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
 Recommendations
 Q&A session

5. Plan
Buy
Build
Deliver
Support
What’s wrong with this picture?
DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE

6. Too many handoffs
Too many tools
Too many vendors
Way too much time
DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE

7. AGENDA
 2012 global economic and IT outlook
 Challenges for the data center administrator
 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
 Recommendations
 Q&A session

8. Some issues remain:
No unified view – still too many tools
Limited orchestration – still too many handoffs
Painful support – still too many vendors
CHALLENGES FOR THE DATA CENTER
ADMINISTRATOR

9. VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR CHALLENGES
 VMware vCenter is a great tool to manage virtual machines
 But VMware vCenter-based infrastructure management is limited
 Missing ESXi image management
 Limited host ecosystem view
 No real-time hardware updates to vCenter
Storage
 Limited storage system or SAN view
 No storage management capability
 Storage provisioning takes manual efforts across silos
 No monitoring of storage environment
Network
 Limited network view
 VLAN and port channel configuration is tedious
 No self-healing of switch configuration
 No monitoring of physical switch
Server

10. AGENDA
 2012 global economic and IT outlook
 Challenges for the data center administrator
 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
 Recommendations
 Q&A session

11. Enterprise-class hardware and software
Built for virtualization
Configured and tested before shipment
Flexible and scalable – right for you!
HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM PRO
FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
TRULY CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

12. Unified infrastructure management
Deep VMware integration
Single interface providing end-to-end
inventory orchestration, provisioning,
operation and monitoring of resources
UCP PRO FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
UCP DIRECTOR

13. UCP PRO ORCHESTRATION ARCHITECTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE ORCHESTRATION – VMWARE STACK
HCS
Elements
Element Management
HCSM Network
Manager
HDvM
Server NetworkStorage
UCP Director
Turnkey
Solution
vCenter
CB 500 VSP Brocade

14. UCP PRO V2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
 Storage – Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
 Compute – Hitachi Compute Blade 500
 Ethernet
- Brocade 6720-60
- Brocade 6746 (in-chassis)
 Fibre Channel
- Brocade 6510
- Brocade 5460 (in-chassis)
 Management
- Hitachi Compute Rack 210
- Brocade FCX 648
- UCP Director Software
BASE CONFIGURATION

15. UCP PRO V2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
GROW AS YOU NEED TO

16. UCP DIRECTOR SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES
Integrated with VMware vCenter and
Hitachi Command Suite for maximum operational efficiency
Summary of features
 Unified provisioning
 Unified configuration
 Unified topology
 Unified monitoring
Unified orchestration and management
 Simple to use and scalable
 Provides overall health status of all
elements and indicates impending failures
 Mitigates downtime by directing appropriate
actions
 Seamlessly integrated with vCenter so
customers can leverage existing tools and
skills

17. WHY UCP PRO KEY?
 Unified management and VMware vCenter integration
‒ Ability to visualize complete datacenter hardware infrastructure inside vCenter
 RESTful public API and CLI for all the UCP software features
‒ Facilitate integration of UCP features with customer’s existing management
stack
 Unified orchestration
‒ Ability to orchestrate provisioning and configuration of resources across
multiple elements
 Unified monitoring and troubleshooting
‒ Ability to correlate and troubleshoot physical and virtual elements alerts
 Turnkey solution
‒ Pre-installation and pre-integration of UCP hardware and software
components and validation of interoperability

18. BENEFITS
 Reduced OPEX
‒ Minimized overhead required to
 Provision resources
 Monitor data center infrastructure
 Manage data center
‒ Efficient troubleshooting: Minimized system downtime
 Reduced system provisioning cost
‒ Turnkey solution
 Single throat to choke

19. AGENDA
 2012 global economic and IT outlook
 Challenges for the data center administrator
 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
 Recommendations
 Q&A session

20. TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS
 Look for converged systems that
are prebuilt, pre-integrated and
preconfigured
 Consider how you’ll manage
your converged solution as part
of the POC
 Look for tight integration
between converged
infrastructure solutions and your
VM management environment

21. OPERATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
 Employ automation (provisioning,
image deployment, etc.)
wherever possible
 Insist on measuring time-to-value
and time-to-deploy
 Take service and support
seriously: “One throat to choke”

22. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Useful links
 UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-
platform/vmware-vsphere.html
 UCP Pro for VMware vSphere videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDScorp/videos?query=ucp+pro

23. AGENDA
 2012 global economic and IT outlook
 Challenges for the data center administrator
 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
 Recommendations
 Q&A session

24. QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION

25. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
November
 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi converged
platform, November 27, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Stay tuned for new WebTechs in January 2013!
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
 Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

26. THANK YOU