HOW AND WHY TO

UPGRADE TO HITACHI
DEVICE MANAGER V7
BRANDON LAMBERT,
PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
RICHARD JEW,
SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER
NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation 2011. All Rights Reserved.

WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES

How and why to upgrade to Hitachi Device Manager v7
Hitachi Device Manager v7 lets you simplify and control all your storage assets
from a centralized console with improved usability, workflow, speed, scalability
and task management. Whether you have already upgraded or are considering
an upgrade to v7, please join us for this informative WebTech session to learn the
best practices for upgrading to Hitachi Device Manager v7.
In this session, you will learn:
Key feature differences between Hitachi Device Manager v6 and v7
Maintenance tasks to conduct prior to the upgrade
Best practices after completing the upgrade process

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HOW AND WHY TO

UPGRADE TO HITACHI
DEVICE MANAGER V7
BRANDON LAMBERT,
PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
RICHARD JEW,
SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER
NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation 2011. All Rights Reserved.

KEY FEATURE DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN
VERSION 6 AND VERSION 7
OF HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

Hitachi
Hitachi Device
Device Manager
Manager (HDvM)
(HDvM) v7
v7 ->
-> Hitachi
Hitachi Command
Command
Suite
Suite (HCS)
(HCS) v7
v7
Simplifies
Simplifies storage
storage management
management and
and saves
saves operational
operational
Easy to deploy
costs!
costs!
Simple to use
Task oriented
Fast and scalable
Cloud ready
Automated
Novice

Simple to
Complex

Advanced

COMMON MANAGEMENT FOR ALL STORAGE

Functionality and Performance

Hitachi is the first storage company to provide common

software management across its entire product line!

Hitachi Command Suite

Configuration, Provisioning, Performance Analytics,
Replication, Reporting, Data Mobility

HNAS

HCP

AMS 2100

AMS = Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage

HCP = Hitachi Content Platform
HNAS = Hitachi NAS Platform
USP V = Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
USP VM = Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
VSP = Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

AMS 2300

AMS 2500

USP V and VM

VSP

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

INTEGRATED HITACHI COMMAND SUITE INSTALLER
No special knowledge or additional services are required to install and use
One DVD for installing all Hitachi Command Suite software
One setup.exe to initiate the installer then choose which product to install
Products are enabled by installing additional license keys

Hitachi
Device
Manager

Hitachi
Tiered
Storage
Manager

Hitachi
Replication
Manager

Core Storage Resource Management

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

AGENTLESS HOST DISCOVERY
Discovers hosts, virtual machines and
applications without deploying host
agents
Uses public interfaces provided by
managed objects, e.g. WMI for
Microsoft Windows
Collect data
remotely with
WMI or SSH

Agent deployment (core agent)

Optionally required to do certain
tasks that the public interface does
not support, i.e. host provisioning

Share host configurations with other

HCS products

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

TASK MANAGEMENT

General Tasks puts the most common tasks in an easy to find place.
Common
tasks storage
administrators
would typically
need to use
on a daily
basis.

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

SIMPLIFIED PROVISIONING
Three pieces of information

Which Host?

How Many?

What Size?

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

NEW SHARED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

HITACHI COMMAND SUITE V7 CONSOLE

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7

PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY ENHANCEMENTS

Improved task completion performance

Allows immediate task execution or scheduling for a later time
Manage millions of resources with a single management server
Improved CLI performance
User Operation time

Device Manager v6
Configuration time

Task 1

Execution time

Device Manger v7
Configuration time
Immediate Execution

Scheduled Execution

Task 2

Execute 1

User Operation time

Task 1

Execute 2

Reduction of
Operation time

Task 2

Execute 1

Execute 2

Execute 1

MAINTENANCE TASKS TO
CONDUCT PRIOR TO THE
UPGRADE
BEST PRACTICES AFTER
COMPLETING THE UPGRADE
PROCESS

PRE-UPGRADE PROCESS

Back up Hitachi relational database (HiRDB)

Back up Hitachi Tuning Manager (HTnM) agents (RAID,
SAN, etc.)
Back up HTnM Alarms
Back up HTnM custom reports
Run prerequisite checker

BACK UP HITACHI RELATIONAL DATABASE IN

WINDOWS

Use the following command to back up the entire Hitachi

relational database (HiRDB) on a Windows-based server
x:\Program Files\HiCommand\Base\Bin\hcmdsdbtrans
/export /workpath x:\backup_workpath /file x:\backup.zip
/auto
Notes
Change the x drive to the installation drive
On 64-bit servers, change Program Files to Program Files
(x86)
Workpath directory must be an empty directory
File location can not be in the workpath directory
/auto stops and starts all of the required services for backup
automatically

BACK UP HITACHI RELATIONAL DATABASE IN UNIX

OR LINUX

Use the following command to back up the entire Hitachi

relational database (HiRDB) on a UNIX/LINUX based
server
/opt/HiCommand/Base/Bin/hcmdsdbtrans -export
-workpath /tmp/backup_workpath -file
/opt/HiCommand/backup.zip -auto
Notes
The workpath directory must be an empty directory
The file location can not be in the workpath directory
-auto stops and starts all of the required services for backup
automatically

BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER AGENTS

Use the following commands to back up all Hitachi

Tuning Manager agent instances on the Hitachi
Command Suite server
Windows
x:\Program
Files\HiCommand\TuningManager\jp1pc\tools>jpcctrl
backup *
Change the x drive to the installation drive
On 64-bit servers, change Program Files to Program Files
(x86)

UNIX and LINUX

/opt/jp1pc/tools/jpcctrl backup '*'

BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER ALARMS

Windows
x:\Program Files\HiCommand\TuningManager\jp1pc\tools>jpcalarm
export f RAIDAlarmTable.bak -key agtd
Change the x drive to the installation drive
On 64-bit servers, change Program Files to Program Files (x86)

Unix and LINUX

/opt/jp1pc/tools/jpcalarm export -f RAIDAlarmTable.bak -key agtd

Run for each agent type installed

Oracle agent: agto
NAS agent: agtn
Switch agent: agtw
Unix agent (Solaris, Linux, HPUX): agtu
Agent for SQL Server : agtq
Agent for Windows : agtt

BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER

CUSTOM REPORTS

Create a custom xml file to back up the reports

BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER

CUSTOM REPORTS WINDOWS

Use the following command with your custom xml file to

back up the custom reports:
x:\Program
Files\HiCommand\TuningManager\PerformanceReporter\to
ols>jpcrdef output -o c:\HTMPRexports\HTMReports.xml
PRExport.xml
Change the x drive to the installation drive
On 64-bit servers, change Program Files to Program Files
(x86)

BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER

CUSTOM REPORTS ON UNIX AND LINUX

Use the following commands to set your path

information:
PR_HOME=/opt/HiCommand/TuningManager/Performance
Reporter/
PR_CONFIG=/opt/HiCommand/TuningManager/Performanc
eReporter/conf/config.xml
PR_BASEHOME=/opt/HiCommand/Base/
export PR_HOME PR_CONFIG PR_BASEHOME

Use the following command with your custom xml file to

back up the custom reports:
/
opt/HiCommand/TuningManager/PerformanceReporter/tool
s/jpcrdef output -o /HTMExports/HTMReports.xml
PRExport.xml

PREREQUISITE CHECKER

NEW FUNCTIONALITY DEMONSTRATION

Configuration
Storage carving
Storage provisioning
Host management
Pool creation and modification

Mobility
Migration
HDT management and reporting

QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION

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December
How Healthcare Providers Can Realize Clinical, Patient and IT
Investment Value, Dec. 7, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Please check www.hds.com/webtech for:

Link to the recording, presentation and Q&A (available next

week)
Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

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