More Than Hyperconverged Solutions

SOLUTION PROFILE

Digital transformation is crucial for companies of all sizes and industries to stay ahead of competitors or

just to stay competitive. The ever-changing marketplace and customer expectations have pushed business

owners to adopt new technologies and deliver new IT services more quickly than before.

Traditional IT infrastructure have become a significant business problem. They are difficult to manage, slow

to respond to business needs and have a high total cost of ownership (TCO). Companies demand agile,

simple and flexible infrastructure to excel in delivering customer values and innovation, and to improve how

they engage with their customers.

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IT Challenges Todayn Complex silo architectures: Traditional silo architecture is hard to implement, operate and manage.

n Ever-increasing IT operational cost: Traditional IT infrastructure requires multiple skills and the support of multiple vendors.

n Slow time to market: Traditional IT infrastructure needs to deploy and test individual components separately (that is, server virtualization, storage, network, backup, disaster recovery).

n The rise of hybrid cloud usage: Hybrid cloud can bring great savings to an organization, however, it introduces a certain degree of complexity and increases IT operational cost.

n High burden for disaster recovery: Disaster recovery infrastructure, disaster recovery drill and operation practices to ensure the success of disaster recovery.

An All-in-One Hyperconverged Solution

Hitachi Data Systems Hong Kong offers a turnkey infrastructure consisting of computing virtualization, software-defined storage, multi-cloud portal, cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery. The solution is built for organizations of any scale to run their workload in an optimized, high-performance and cost-effective enterprise platform.

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Ready to Run in Minutes This all-in-one hyperconverged solution is a 2U rack-optimized, ready-to-run hyperconverged appliance. The appliance is factory prevalidated and pretested to reduce the complexity of design and planning. The entire process of powering up the appliance, Virtual Machine (VM) provisioning and getting backup done locally and to the cloud takes just minutes, giving organizations the ability to quickly respond to business requirements.

Multi-Cloud Portal With the rise of public cloud adoption, many enterprises are using cloud services in different forms and for different reasons. Some organizations want to leverage the public cloud’s elasticity characteristics to manage workload with unforeseeable demand, and some may want to leverage public cloud’s pay-as-you-go model for a short-lived workload. Public cloud introduces enormous benefits for the enterprise, but yet many companies are hesitant to move their whole IT infrastructure into the public cloud for

various reasons such as security, performance, data privacy, complex charging model, and many more. Multiple clouds and hybrid cloud strategy is becoming a natural option for enterprises to enjoy the best of both worlds and is best fit to deliver a bimodal IT Infrastructure for their organization.

The Multi-Cloud Portal enable enterprises to manage and automate both their public and private clouds from a single unified panel. It provides a holistic view and management of all clouds and provides the same user experience for deployment of VMs and applications to any cloud. The multi-cloud automation playbook allows IT admin to turn their cloud infrastructure into code to eliminate repetitive tasks and human errors as well as to improve deployment time. With the Multi-Cloud approval workflow and multi-tenant cloud resources management, the enterprise is able to gain back control of their IT while enjoying all the benefits that cloud brings to the business.

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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery This comes packaged with local and offsite backup to ensure that critical data is well protected. Backup is done to the appliance locally as a short retention to enable quick restores. It is also replicated to the Hitachi Cloud Services Connection data center for long retention and disaster recovery purposes. Deduplication and compression are applied to the backup replication to minimize the bandwidth requirement. As a cloud-based solution, it does not require capital expenditure (capex) on backup hardware or the need to set up a disaster recovery site.

In disaster situations, as backup data is constantly replicated from the local to the disaster site, organizations can rest assured that their data is ready if and when they need to run their business from cloud. Per the disaster recovery request, Cloud Services Connection will recover the VM on cloud and hand over to the IT administrator for DR purpose. This provides a risk-free disaster recovery service to the IT organization.

To facilitate familiarity and assurance of a successful disaster recovery procedure, the all-in-one hyperconverged solution includes a one-time cloud disaster recovery drill. During the practice run, organization will experience first hand the ease of failover during disaster and how to resume business at the DR site with minimal disruption.

Aligning IT Focus and Transformation with

Managed Service Digital transformation requires organizations as a whole to transform the business through digital capabilities. IT should be aligned with business and organizations are realizing this and have begun to focus their IT resources to make this change happen. This has caused the demand for managed services to rise and companies are more willing to explore such services as a cost saving measure. The all-in-one hyperconverged solutions can be complemented with remote managed infrastructure support and backup service, thus allowing IT to focus on more strategic projects and initiatives.

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Multi-Cloud Portal

n Multi-Cloud Playbook Automation: Deploy apps and workloads configuration with a simple point and click operation. Playbook automation allows IT administrators to deliver apps and workloads configuration with a pre-defined playbook and customer playbook to any selected cloud.

n Enterprise Backup Integration: Backup and Restore the private cloud workload in a few simple steps. With an Enterprise backup solution (Hitachi Data Protection Suite), IT admin can enjoy a seamless integration with the multi-cloud portal to streamline the complicated data protection process.

n Approval Chain: Role-based and multiple level approval workflows to reduce over-provisioning and control spending within the targeted budget.

Key Features

n Multitenant and Multi-Cloud Accounts Management: Allow enterprises to manage private and public cloud resources into a multitenant and accounts model.

Computing Virtualization

n VMware vSphere Hypervisor architecture provides a robust, production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer. It enables multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources with performance that can match native throughput.

n VMware vSphere thin provisioning provides dynamic allocation of shared storage capacity, enabling IT organizations to implement a tiered storage strategy while reducing storage spending by up to 50 percent.

n VMware vSphere vMotion® enables live migration of virtual machines between servers and across virtual switches with no disruption to users or loss of service.

n VMware vSphere Storage vMotion enables live migration of virtual-machine disks with no disruption to users and no application downtime.

n VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) provides cost-effective, automated restart within minutes for all applications if a hardware or operating system failure occurs.

n VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability of any application in the event of a hardware failure with no data loss or downtime. For workloads up to 2-vCPU.

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n VMware vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management allows common management across storage tiers and dynamic storage class of service automation via a policy-driven control plane.

Software-Defined Storage

n Virtual SAN is built into the vSphere kernel, optimizing the data I/O path to provide the highest levels of performance with minimal impact on CPU and memory.

n Nondisruptively expand capacity and performance by adding hosts to a cluster (scale out) or just grow capacity by adding disks to a host (scale up).

n Erasure coding increases usable storage capacity by up to 100% while keeping data resiliency unchanged. It is capable of tolerating one or two failures with single parity or double parity protection.

n QoS controls, limits and monitors the IOPS consumed by specific virtual machines, eliminating noisy neighbor issues.

n Virtual SAN uses storage policies, applied on a per-VM basis, to automate provisioning and balancing of storage resources to ensure that each virtual machine gets the specified storage resources and services.

n Creates a stretched cluster between two geographically separate sites, synchronously replicating data between sites. Enables enterprise-level availability with no data loss and near zero downtime.

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Backup and Disaster Recovery

Reliable Data Protection Infrastructure

n Reference cloud backup architecture.n Hybrid backup solution with short-term

retention copies kept locally in customer site and longer-term retention copies kept offsite in the Hitachi Cloud.

Modernized Tapeless Backup Approach

n Backup copies always online and available for restore at any time.

n Reduced data restoration time leading to a better recovery time objective (RTO).

n Reduced operation cost and data loss exposure, no physical tapes to manage.

Bottomless Backup Capacity

n Data backup locally to on-premise storage and also replicated to bottomless cloud storage.

n Consumption model with unlimited scalability for data protection.

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n Enhanced backup network throughput performance with advanced technologies such as backup deduplication, changed block tracking, forever incremental and synthetic full backup capabilities.

Disaster Recovery to Cloud

n Cloud backup copies of VM images can be restored to the cloud at any time at your business continuity planning (BCP) site for disaster recovery purposes.

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Support Service

n 24/7 call center service: n A central point of contact for incident reporting. n Record and status update of all incidents.

n 24/7 monitoring servicesn Hardware monitoring.n vSphere infrastructure monitoring. n Backup and disaster recovery infrastructure

infrastructure monitoring.n Storage and virtual servers provisioning.n Patch management and preventive.

maintenance for vSphere infrastructure.n Remote support service for vSphere, backup

and DR infrastructure.n Monthly service report on system availability,

incident summary.n Quarterly performance and capacity review.n Incident management, change management,

problem management related to private cloud infrastructure.

Optional Backup Operation Services

n Monitor backup job. n Perform data restore.n Provide daily backup report.n Perform ad hoc backup and restore.

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