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.

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

2. 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

3. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
 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

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

5. KEY FEATURE DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN
VERSION 6 AND VERSION 7
OF HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER
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6. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7
Hitachi Device Manager (HDvM) v7 -> Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) v7
Simplifies storage management and saves operational costs!
Easy to deploy
Simple to use
Task oriented
Fast and scalable
Cloud ready
Automated
Novice Simple to Advanced
Complex

7. COMMON MANAGEMENT FOR ALL STORAGE
Hitachi is the first storage company to provide common
software management across its entire product line!
Functionality and Performance
Hitachi Command Suite
Configuration, Provisioning, Performance Analytics,
Replication, Reporting, Data Mobility
HNAS HCP AMS 2100 AMS 2300
AMS 2500 USP V and VM
• AMS = Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage VSP
• 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

8. 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 Hitachi Hitachi
Device Tiered Replication
Manager Storage Manager
Manager
Core Storage Resource Management

9. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7
AGENTLESS HOST DISCOVERY
Discovers hosts, virtual machines Share host configurations with other
HCS products
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

10. 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.

11. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7
SIMPLIFIED PROVISIONING
Three pieces of information
Which Host? How Many? What Size?

12. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7
NEW SHARED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

13. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER V7
HITACHI COMMAND SUITE V7 CONSOLE

14. 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
Task 1 Task 2
Configuration time
Execution time Execute 1 Execute 2
Reduction of
Device Manger v7 User Operation time Operation time
Task 1 Task 2
Configuration time
Execute 1 Execute 2
Immediate Execution
Execute 1
Scheduled Execution

15. MAINTENANCE TASKS TO
CONDUCT PRIOR TO THE
UPGRADE
BEST PRACTICES AFTER
COMPLETING THE UPGRADE
PROCESS
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16. 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

17. 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 FilesHiCommandBaseBinhcmdsdbtrans
/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

18. 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

19. 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
FilesHiCommandTuningManagerjp1pctools>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 '*'

20. BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER ALARMS
 Windows
‒ x:Program FilesHiCommandTuningManagerjp1pctools>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

21. BACK UP HITACHI TUNING MANAGER
CUSTOM REPORTS
 Create a custom xml file to back up the reports

22. 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
FilesHiCommandTuningManagerPerformanceReporterto
ols>jpcrdef output -o c:HTMPRexportsHTMReports.xml
PRExport.xml
‒ Change the “x” drive to the installation drive
‒ On 64-bit servers, change “Program Files” to “Program Files
(x86)”

23. 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

24. PREREQUISITE CHECKER

25. NEW FUNCTIONALITY DEMONSTRATION
 Configuration
‒ Storage carving
‒ Storage provisioning
‒ Host management
‒ Pool creation and modification
 Mobility
‒ Migration
‒ HDT management and reporting

26. QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION

27. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
 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

28. THANK YOU