Hitachi Data Systems Unified Compute Platform and Riverbed Granite Delivering data centre security, availability, manageability and resilience to the branch office.

IntroductionOver the last decade increasing levels of consolidation and centralisation have enabled businesses of all sizes to deliver more secure, performant and flexible services and infrastructure whilst driving costs down.

The advent of cost-effective server virtualisation and storage unification, coupled with technical advances in the WAN optimisation field have seen Riverbed and Hitachi Data Systems come to the forefront of delivering these services at the heart of some of the world’s most demanding data centre infrastructures.

As effective as these technologies have been in driving consolidation into the data centre, the requirement of branch office IT delivery has posed interesting technical considerations and historically proved impossible to integrate and migrate fully into a centralised data centre architecture. As such - to this day - delivering branch office services has a large financial, managerial and security impact on the majority of businesses, even when considerable portions of the server and storage estates have been consolidated.

A new approach from Riverbed, called Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (edge-VSI) helps to bring the vision of complete centralisation a step closer by allowing IT to consolidate and manage all branch office servers in the data centre with LAN performance at the edge, all at up to 50 percent of the cost of managing traditional distributed environments. Couple this new technological innovation with the lauded reliability, performance and security available from Hitachi Data Systems Unified Storage and Server platforms and finally, the ability to deliver data centre based services without performance, security or availability compromises to the branch office becomes a reality for the IT departments of SMB and enterprise businesses alike.

Riverbed – Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure The Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite appliances set a new architectural standard by extending the virtual edge of software-defined data centres for complete consolidation and centralisation.

Combining the Riverbed Optimisation System (RiOS) for WAN Optimisation, the Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP) featuring a VMware vSphere Hypervisor, and the Granite edge-VSI, Riverbed can provide a single appliance that delivers branch office compute and WAN optimisation coupled with seamless management of applications, services and data, all from the centralised data centre.

KEY BENEFITS> 100% available, centrally managed data in the branch even in the event of a WAN outage

> Consolidation of branch services

> Accelerated application performance and WAN data transfer

> Thin provisioning, ensuring data is on the right tier at the right time

> Access to all data types across the business on one platform

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In taking the best of both vendors’ technologies server virtualisation and storage consolidation projects are taken to the next level and, a truly centralised model can be achieved but at a fraction of the cost of traditional architectures.

Industry-leading WAN OptimisationSteelhead appliances speed application performance and data transfer over the wide area network (WAN), overcoming bandwidth and latency problems to deliver the highest performance available on the market today.

Virtual Services PlatformHelping to drive organisations’ infrastructure consolidation further, with the revolutionary Virtual Services Platform (VSP). Based on the industry leading virtualisation platform VMware vSphere ESXi and allowing for multiple virtual services, appliances or applications to run at the branch.

Edge virtual server infrastructure Granite edge-VSI enables the best of all worlds; 100% consolidated data and applications, AES 256 bit encryption of all data and LAN performance at the edge over the WAN. This architecture provides local services even in the event of an outage, and also removes all branch office back up requirements, replicating all unique data changes back to the data centre storage platform. This radically reduces the operational burden on the CTO while massively increasing their control over the infrastructure, all at a lower total cost of ownership.

Hitachi Data Systems – Unified Storage and Compute Platforms As businesses strive to innovate and prosper, the need to solve complicated data management issues has never been greater. Organisations of all sizes are hampered by data growth demands, rising costs & complexities and difficulties meeting service level agreements. While data capacity, applications and virtual server environments are growing at exponential rates, budgets are not. Data centres must become more efficient and simple to adeptly meet these challenges.

With best-in-class scalability, performance and availability, Hitachi Data Systems unified compute platforms optimise support for critical applications, cloud-ready infrastructure and data centre consolidation, all through a single intuitive interface.

The new generation of Hitachi Unified Storage is an evolution in universally managing file, block and object data at all levels, without compromising performance, scalability or cost efficiency.

Easy Building blocks allow for Hitachi Unified Platforms to scale from a modest entry point, supporting dozens of virtual machines, through to a true data centre amalgamation platform, supporting thousands of virtual machines along with hundreds of Petabytes of data. This is supported by architecture guides and tested solution deployments for virtualisation platforms as well as specific application driven solutions for SAP, Oracle, Exchange, SQL and SharePoint amongst others.

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Solution OverviewIn taking the best of both vendors’ technologies and combining the unified solution offering from Hitachi Data Systems with the data centre extension technologies available from Riverbed, server virtualisation and storage consolidation projects are taken to the next level and, a truly centralised model can be achieved but at a fraction of the cost of traditional architectures.

The combination of Hitachi’s unified platform and Riverbed’s Granite Edge-VSI technology results in an enterprise class data centre based platform that allows for back up, recovery, and provision of branch office services through the same central management tools. Data centre hardware and floor space requirements are reduced, and the need for local resource to manage the branch office environment is removed, freeing up support staff time and enabling IT departmental budgets to stretch further.

Solution Diagram

Use CasesA joint solution based on Hitachi Data Systems Unified Storage and Compute Platforms, coupled with Riverbed’s WAN Optimisation, VSP and Granite Edge-VSI allows for 100% data availability whilst also delivering a complete consolidation of all services provisioned from the branch office into the data centre. Ideally suited to:

• Windows file servers • Remote branch offices requiring a consistent level of performance and access to data, even in the event of a WAN outage• Application delivery and appliances that typically don’t perform well across the WAN due to intensive and frequent write profiles

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Solution Benefits • Centrally managed data that is always available to support business operations in the branch even in the event of a WAN outage• Consolidation of multiple basic services in the branch such as print, DNS, and DHCP as well as applications that require significant computing resources• Accelerated application performance and data transfer over the WAN • Integrated, enterprise class back up options – allowing all data, including branch office data provisioned via Riverbed Granite to be backed up and managed centrally• 100% Data availability • Hitachi Dynamic Tiering technology allows for thin provisioning of data volumes, increasing utilisation, whilst also allowing for sub-lun tiering, ensuring data is always on the right tier at the right time • Unified Storage platform provides access to all data types across the business on one platform with built in snapshots and clones

Key Solution Facts• A secure vault protects sensitive information using AES 256-bit encryption• Easy to use wizard based configuration and an intuitive user interface simplifies setup and management• Integrated VMware vSphere Hypervisor in the branch for consolidated hosting and management of virtual services• Solid state disks (SSDs) guarantee data durability and performance• Customisable reports provide visibility to key utilisation, performance, and diagnostic information• Native support for VMware enhanced functionality – VAAI, VASA, SRM • Expert level resources available to advise, architect, design and deploy

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