Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere environments

COMPREHENSIVE AND SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT FOR VMWARE VSPHERE ENVIRONMENTS MANJU RAMANATHPURA

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

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

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

AGENDA

2012 global economic and IT outlook

Challenges for the data center administrator

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

Recommendations

Q&A session

Plan

Buy

Build

Deliver

Support

What’s wrong with this picture?

DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE

Too many handoffs

Too many tools

Too many vendors

Way too much time

DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE

AGENDA

2012 global economic and IT outlook

Challenges for the data center administrator

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

Recommendations

Q&A session

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

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

AGENDA

2012 global economic and IT outlook

Challenges for the data center administrator

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

Recommendations

Q&A session

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

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

UCP PRO ORCHESTRATION ARCHITECTURE

INFRASTRUCTURE ORCHESTRATION – VMWARE STACK

HCS

Elements

Element Management

HCSM Network Manager

HDvM

Server Network Storage UCP Director

Turnkey Solution

vCenter

CB 500 VSP Brocade

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

UCP PRO V2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE

GROW AS YOU NEED TO

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

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

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

AGENDA

2012 global economic and IT outlook

Challenges for the data center administrator

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

Recommendations

Q&A session

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

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”

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

AGENDA

2012 global economic and IT outlook

Challenges for the data center administrator

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro

Recommendations

Q&A session

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

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

THANK YOU