1. Take Data Protection to the Next Level
Maximize the value of storage hardware investments
and improve IT efficiency. Eliminate scripting and
automate application-aware snapshot and recovery
operations. Improve disaster recovery readiness, align
to more stringent service level agreements (SLAs) and
accelerate test and development operations. Improve
application availability by reducing backup windows.
Working with the features of Hitachi Data Protection
Suite, Hitachi Thin Image provides the snapshot and
replication capabilities that ensure these achievements
for your data center.
Application-Aware Snapshot Management for
Hitachi Virtual Storage Solutions
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Organizations of all sizes have been struggling for
some time with legacy approaches to protecting their
data, especially critical application data. The volume
of data has grown to the point where there isn’t
enough time in the day to back it all up. At the same
time, business is asking IT to spend less time doing
backups to reduce the impact on application and
data availability. New approaches are needed to meet
these challenges.
Storage-system-based snapshots and replication
have become the modern methods for enhancing
application availability, as measured by recovery point
objectives (RPO), recovery time objectives (RTO) and
backup windows. These snapshot and replication
capabilities offer a range of advantages over tradi-
tional backup methodologies.
Hitachi Thin Image (HTI) software provides industry-
leading levels of backup and recovery performance,
scalability, reliability and functionality. It is available
with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family and
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM).

2. SOLUTION PROFILE
Hitachi Thin Image snapshot capabilities
provide logical, change-based, point-in-time
data replication within Hitachi storage sys-
tems for immediate business use. Business
usage can include data backup and rapid
recovery operations, as well as decision
support, information processing, and soft-
ware testing and development.
Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous
Replication software operates between
any storage systems within a virtualized
storage pool managed by VSP family, HUS
VM or Hitachi Unified Storage 100 family.
ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication
creates multiple point-in-time clones that
can be used for offline backup and other
purposes, without impacting the production
environment.
However, native array
snapshot tools, such as
HTI and ShadowImage
Heterogeneous Replication,
have varying degrees of
automation and application
awareness. The IntelliSnap
feature of Hitachi Data Protection Suite
(HDPS), powered by CommVault, brings
more to snapshots. CommVault IntelliSnap
combines deep application awareness with
tight HTI and ShadowImage Heterogeneous
Replication integration. Together, they
consolidate, automate and manage snap-
shot-based protection and rapid recovery of
applications, systems, virtual machines (VMs)
and data.
IntelliSnap is available as a component of
the full Hitachi Data Protection Suite, or
can be licensed alone to add application-
consistent intelligent snapshot manage-
ment to your existing data protection
infrastructure.
The Challenge: Realize the
Potential of Storage-System-
Based Snapshots
Enterprises today increasingly turn to
storage-system-based snapshots. They
use the snapshots to augment or replace
legacy data protection solutions. Solutions
that are overwhelmed by exponential data
growth can fail to keep up with increasing
service level demands from the business.
The challenge is that native storage system
snapshot tools, as well as alternative
3rd-party solutions, offer varying degrees of
functionality, automation, scripting require-
ments, hardware support and application
awareness.
These approaches can add administrative
complexity and make it more difficult to
realize the full potential of snapshots.
Storage-Integrated
Operations With IntelliSnap
Technology
Hitachi Data Systems solves this problem
with IntelliSnap technology. IntelliSnap stream-
lines, centralizes and simplifies snapshot
management across heterogeneous storage
platforms. It automates recovery of objects,
applications and databases, and links
snapshots to backup processes. The tight
coupling of managed snapshots with data
protection and recovery operations enables
HDPS software to provide a complete view
into data across applications, devices, oper-
ating systems and locations. This view helps
to cut administrative overhead and improve
access, availability and IT efficiency.
Automated Snapshot
Management
IntelliSnap technology enables a mod-
ernized approach to data protection by
merging storage system hardware snap-
shots directly into the data protection
process. IntelliSnap integrates tightly with
both host applications and the system soft-
ware specific to each storage system.
As the central integration point between
the applications and system software, the
IntelliSnap feature drives snapshot creation
and indexes the contents. It can then push
application-consistent backup, archive
or disaster recovery copies to secondary
storage. IntelliSnap normalizes snapshot
operations so they look the same and oper-
ate the same way regardless of application
or storage platform.
For longer-term retention copies, HDPS
software offloads deduplication, backup
and encryption to a separate host to mini-
mize impact to production systems.
By automatically integrating application
intelligence with hardware snapshots,
HDPS software is able to reach through
the application and file systems into the
■■ Recover applications faster to increase business uptime.
■■ Maximize investments in Hitachi virtual storage with centralized snapshot
management.
■■ Eliminate snapshot-related scripting and management complexity, execute more
frequent snapshot operations to improve disaster recovery readiness, align to more
stringent SLAs, and accelerate test and development operations.
■■ Reduce risk by eliminating the backup window, increasing the frequency of backup.
■■ Reduce IT costs by eliminating multiple point products and management silos with
a single software platform.
Benefits of Snapshot Management
By 2016, at least 20% of large enterprises will abandon
backup/recovery solutions using a traditional
methodology and adopt those that employ only
snapshot and replication techniques, up from less than
7% today. Source: Gartner. Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/
Recovery Software. Published 5 June 2013. Analysts:
Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen
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storage system. It discovers volume or disk
configurations for the snapshot operations,
and coordinates these operations with
proper application awareness. Thereby, it
minimizes administrative configuration and
eliminates any scripting requirements.
Orchestrated Recovery
Hitachi Data Protection Suite software’s
index spans all snapshot copies under
management. It enables intuitive search
and granular recovery within and across
all snapshots, whether on a single or
multiple storage systems, or on storage
systems from different vendors. IntelliSnap
technology also automates database and
application recovery across snapshots and
secondary copies. For example, consider
the steps to recover a database that is
snapped every 6 hours, with log backups
every 30 minutes and a backup to second-
ary storage once daily: You simply select
the database and a point in time to recover
from. HDPS software either copies back
from a secondary copy or reverts to the
snapshot. Then, it automatically replays the
logs to bring the database back in a con-
sistent state to the selected point in time.
HDPS software orchestrates the entire pro-
cess between hardware and host.
Streamline Replication,
Accelerate Test and
Development Operations
For the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
family and Hitachi Unified Storage VM,
IntelliSnap technology can simplify disaster
recovery and test and development oper-
ations. It manages storage-system-based
replication and the creation of writable
snapshot copies. IntelliSnap can manage
storage system replication to create more
frequent and more current disaster recovery
copies with full application awareness and
granular recovery capabilities.
The IntelliSnap feature can also create test
and development copies at the disaster
recovery site. It offloads test and devel-
opment from the production environment,
eliminating the need for manual operations,
labor-intensive refreshes and scripts. This
capability significantly reduces overhead
and accelerates test and development
operations.
Applications and File Systems
Supported by IntelliSnap
Technology
■■ IBM®
DB2®
and Lotus Notes®
.
■■ Linux and UNIX File Systems.
■■ Microsoft®
: Exchange Server, Hyper-V®
,
SharePoint®
Server, SQL Server®
and
Windows®
File Systems.
■■ Oracle.
■■ SAP.
■■ VMware.
Summary
As discussed earlier, many organizations
are transitioning data protection away from
the traditional full + incremental backup
model. They are also turning from the asso-
ciated grandfather-father-son tape-cycling
and retention process. Instead, they are
moving toward a more modern approach,
leveraging advanced technologies such as
hardware- and software-based snapshots
and replication, to achieve improved RPO,
RTO, backup window and total cost of
ownership (TCO) levels.
Utilizing these technologies can certainly help
to improve service levels, reduce costs and
mitigate risks. However, it is important to
ensure that all applications and data, on all
platforms and locations, are adequately pro-
tected without compounding the complexity
of the environment. A single solution that
can manage all types of data, automate pro-
cesses and provide peace of mind through
reporting and auditability is crucial to success.
The Hitachi Data Systems data protection
solution, combining Hitachi Thin Image
and Hitachi Data Protection Suite with its
IntelliSnap feature’s application-aware snap-
shot management, meets these challenges
today. At the same time, it ensures the scal-
ability and reliability needed for tomorrow.
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Figure 1. A singular approach to modern data protection: Policy-based management of Hitachi
Thin Image hardware snapshots linked to application-aware backups with HDPS software and
IntelliSnap technology.

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Key Capabilities
Features Benefits
Scalability Create and manage up to 1024 point-in-time
snapshot copies.
Reduce recovery time from data corruption or
human errors.
Efficiency Only changed data blocks are stored for maxi-
mum capacity utilization.
Maximize Hitachi disk storage capacity.
Functionality Version tracking of backups enables easy restores
of just the data you need.
Achieve frequent and nondisruptive data backup oper-
ations while critical applications run unaffected.
Performance Near-instantaneous restore reduces downtime
and improves recovery objectives.
New, greatly improved write performance reduces
response time to host, minimizing impact on users
and applications.
Significantly reduce or eliminate backup window time
requirements.
Automation Configure, create, retire, mount, mine, dismount,
monitor, retain, revert and restore in the same
way, regardless of hardware platform.
Eliminate the need to script snapshot operations.
Automate the creation of writable clones of data-
bases and file sets for test and development.
Reduce load on IT administrators and accelerate
application testing and deployment with always-
available copies of current production information.
Recovery Management Provide storage-system-assisted recoveries,
database- or volume-level restores, and granular
file, message, Microsoft®
SharePoint®
document
or Oracle table recovery from any tier (snapshot,
backup, archive or disaster recovery) to any
target system.
Quickly recover the data you need, when you need
it, and where you need it.
Security and Reporting Initiate backup operations from hardware-based
snapshots with rich job and storage-system-
specific reports and analytics, with integrated
auditing and security controls.
Validate system and data integrity; ensure security
controls are functioning correctly.
Hardware-Agnostic Align independent retention policies and provide
application-consistent recovery copies across
different storage types and tiers.
Leverage this solution across virtualized and nonvir-
tualized storage systems.