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Top 10 Reasons Why to Choose Hitachi Hyperconverged Systems

Simplify IT, Reduce TCO and Eliminate Risk

Modern IT departments are looking to usher in digital transformation with reliable infrastructure that can deliver cloud-like 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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HYPERCONVERGED SYSTEMS

■■ All-flash and hybrid configuration.

■■ Scale up to 6M IOPS (100K per node).

■■ Space efficiency: more than 5x improvement.

■■ Linear scale-out architecture.

■■ VSAN policy-based automation.

■■ Quality of service (QoS) per virtual machine (VM).

■■ Smart life-cycle management.

■■ Advanced analytics.

■■ Near-zero recovery point objective (RPO).

■■ One-stop, 24/7 support.

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Top 10 Reasons 1. Simplicity Redefined. Hitachi hyper-

converged solutions simplify data center complexity with easier planning, procur-ing, 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, with-out requiring specialized storage skills.

For organizations having many remote or branch offices, compact Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) is an ideal solution: It maximizes resource utili-zation and improves operational efficiency with power and space savings, while eliminating complexity of managing these systems. Single-pane-of-glass manage-ment with a virtual SAN (VSAN) provides visibility into the entire infrastructure stack and delivers predictive analytics for opti-mized 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.

2. Maximize Efficiency. With a 2U form factor, UCP HC delivers high VM den-sity 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 enables businesses to become more flexible with its pay-as-you-grow 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,

Hitachi’s platform of hybrid and all-flash hyperconverged appliances enables businesses to drive change and stay ahead of the competition.

bringing resources on board in a just-in-time approach, avoiding overinvestment. UCP HC allows you the flexibility in com-ponent 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 con-tainers, 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. Scalability. 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 per-formance to meet needs of a multitude

of applications with varying IOPS charac-teristics, 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 analyt-ics. 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 availabil-ity and accessibility of VMs and data. They provide native and optimized data protection and disaster recovery solu-tions 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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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.

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 vir-tual desktop operations.

7. Smart Management. Data services are strategically designed to work together in a software-defined stack to deliver a seamless experience to VM admin-istrators. Dedupe, compression and replication can be performed from intui-tive management interface with just one VSAN datastore, without requiring LUNs. One datastore represents the characteris-tics of entire stack of underlying nodes.

UCP HC provides a comprehensive dashboard to view VMs. Compute and storage are viewable, with health monitors for CPU, memory, storage and VM usage for entire clusters, indi-vidual appliances and individual nodes. As it leverages VMware’s core prod-ucts, administrators can apply existing VMware knowledge, best practices and processes.

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 soft-ware, which reduces the IT workload, and support from Hitachi.

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8. VM-Centricity. UCP HC allows provi-sioning 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 require-ment 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 cen-tralized 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