Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI delivers flexibility,

reliability and performance with simplified operations

designed around data.

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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI: The Foundation for a

Modern Data Center
Flexibility To Support Any ●● Enterprise-class hardware components
and preconfigured resilient architectures
Application at Any Scale support high availability and reliability.
Organizations today face challenges from ●● Data resilience and scalability are
rapidly changing markets, new technolo- achieved using a choice of storage
gies and the need to exploit and safeguard options, including industry-leading Hitachi
ever-increasing amounts of data. IT depart- Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) all-flash
ments must now deal with new data types arrays and VMware vSAN storage. This
from many sources and meet stringent approach gives UCP CI administrators
new rules of oversight and compliance. access to a wide range of sophisticated
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI (UCP data services, including data protection
CI) series, the foundation for a modern IT and disaster recovery options. UCP CI
infrastructure, meets these challenges. It administrators also have the option to
allows you to simply build a data-centered leverage their existing storage products.
IT infrastructure that can host any applica- ●● Performance and scalability is provided
tion, at any scale, and at any location. by the Hitachi Advanced Server family.
DS120, DS220, DS225 and DS240
UCP CI works with Hitachi Unified
rack-optimized models deliver scale-out
Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor)
capability and simplify growth. Enterprise-
software, which provides intelligent unified
class DS7000 series servers meet the
automation of the management of your
deploy new business applications despite performance and scale-up needs of
server, storage and networking compo-
flat or shrinking budgets. With its prevali- demanding business-critical applications.
nents. As a result, you can monitor and
dated building blocks of compute, storage Networking is provided by a choice of
allocate both physical and virtual resources ●●
and networking guaranteed to work top-of-rack switches from Cisco, Arista
rapidly and efficiently. With UCP CI, you
together the first time and deliver pre- and Broadcom that can flexibly satisfy
can scale compute, storage and network
dictable performance, UCP CI addresses IP-switching and Fibre Channel needs
capacity independently, to optimize the
these needs. Its low-risk path to con- and customer preferences.
performance of your application and elim-
verged infrastructure provides a solution
inate the cost of overprovisioning. With ●● Hitachi UCP Advisor provides a single
that can be operational, fast. Plus, it is
UCP Advisor, you can manage unified management interface to provision
simple to manage, with a single interface
business resource pools across a single services quickly and provide integrated
to monitor every aspect of the system
or multiple data centers from a single user automation and management of both
from one place.
interface. physical hosts and virtual machines,
Key Platform Features reducing both deployment and opera-
UCP CI Capabilities tional costs. The user interface includes
●● UCP CI is a highly configurable inte-
Flexible, Highly Configurable and native integration with VMware vCenter
grated infrastructure, in which server,
Available Converged Infrastructure to simplify operations and speed time to
network and storage can be scaled inde-
operation.
Today’s digital business must be always pendently, to optimize performance and
available, and organizations must rapidly eliminate overprovisioning costs.
Solution Architecture
The UCP CI architecture consists of modular
building blocks. Its components scale inde-
pendently and provide organizations with
greater configurability, flexibility and agility.
Systems can be configured with a wide range
of server options from the Hitachi Advanced
Server family. Choose from rackmount sys-
tems, such as DS120, which are optimized
for scale-out cloud-native architectures. Or,
select the enterprise-class
DS7000 series systems to Modernize
provide high performance Your Data
for business-critical applica- Center
tions and high capacity for
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in-memory databases, such
as SAP HANA.
UCP CI supports the Hitachi’s complete
family VSP arrays, including the VSP 5000,
as well as all-flash VSP F series and hybrid-
flash VSP G series. These systems provide
industry-leading performance and reliability,
including a 100% data availability guarantee.
They support Hitachi value-added software for
AI operations and data services, such as data
protection, disaster recovery and bottomless
backup for applications and virtual machines.
Flexible network infrastructure options from
Cisco, Arista and Broadcom ensure Ethernet
and Fibre Channel networking is tightly
integrated and managed, and offers the
same high availability as the other elements
of the stack. Available tools include Hitachi
Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA), which
manages and monitors the IT infrastructure to
ensure that services maintain compliance with
service level agreements (SLAs).
A single source of trusted support takes care
of every component in the system with avail-
able 24/7 monitoring and end-to-end support.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Advisor
UCP CI is managed by Hitachi UCP Advisor,
a cornerstone of Hitachi’s suite of AI opera-
tions software. This state-of-the-art, intelligent
orchestration software simplifies deployments
and improves IT cost and agility, including
return on investment (ROI) optimization,
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TABLE 1. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM CI:
INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW*
Compute For virtualized environments:
●● Up to 128 Hitachi Advanced Server DS120 or DS220
high-density rack optimized servers. (Up to 16 DS120 servers
in a single rack configuration)
Storage Options ●● Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
●● VSP 5000 series
●● VSP F series all-flash arrays: VSP F1500, VSP F900, VSP
F800, VSP F700, VSP F600, VSP F400, VSP F370, VSP F350
●● VSP G series hybrid-flash arrays: VSP G1500, VSP G1000,
VSP G900, VSP G800, VSP G700, VSP G600, VSP G400,
VSP G370, VSP G350
●● Local node storage, including VMware vSAN
●● Other vendor storage virtualized through VSP family
Software ●● Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor
●● For VMware vSphere:
●● VMware vCenter
●● VMware vSphere
Network ●● Cisco Ethernet networking switches
●● Arista Ethernet networking switches
●● Broadcom Fibre Channel SAN switches
* Partial list of components
uptime, rapid adoption of new technologies, Summary
efficiency, risk reduction, and improved cus-
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI,
tomer experience. UCP Advisor enables AI
enables you to rapidly deploy IT infrastruc-
operations with automated provisioning and
ture for a modern data center. It delivers
full life-cycle management of both virtual
the enterprise scale, flexibility, performance
and physical systems. It provides a single
and resiliency required for workloads, from
management view of all components and
modern cloud-native applications to legacy
minimizes the challenges of overseeing com-
mission-critical databases. You gain the foun-
plex infrastructures, saving time and money.
dation you need to manage the increased
With UCP Advisor, you can:
volume, complexity and regulatory com-
Accelerate and simplify deployments of pliance requirements of data that business
●●
converged infrastructure. requires today. This is a foundation that can
●● Automate provisioning, service catalog, support the tools you need to extract insights,
uncover new efficiencies and exploit new rev-
custom workflows and API integration for a
enue opportunities.
modern data strategy with ubiquitous data
services. With UCP CI, Hitachi offers a streamlined,
●● Move applications and workloads between integrated and automated platform for
clouds, UCP systems and solutions in a enterprise data centers and hybrid-cloud
smart and automated way. deployments. It improves time to production,
●● Reduce risk and increase effectiveness makes enterprise-class applications more
with predefined server provisioning. Use agile and resilient, and has the flexibility to
policy-based automation to enable the grow as business needs demand. And, it
development and execution of architec- provides a single source of legendary service
tures, policies, practices and procedures. and support.
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