Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity and massive data growth have companies seeking new, reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand, rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers now face growing demands for faster delivery of business services, serious resource contentions and trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They also have mounting complications and rising costs in managing disparate islands of technology resources.

1. Accelerate Your Business-Critical Workloads
to Cloud
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
To address these issues, organizations have rapidly
adopted and deployed virtualization. They are looking
to service models, such as private cloud, that increase
efficiency, improve flexibility and reduce the cost of
delivering IT services.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Private cloud deployments are quickly becoming
a way for enterprises to improve flexibility and effi-
ciency, and virtualization is becoming ubiquitous.
However, organizations also require predictable
platform reliability to move even business-critical
workloads to private cloud without having to rip up
and replace their current infrastructure. Evolving
beyond current solutions, Hitachi Data Systems offers
a flexible and robust platform for quickly capitalizing
on cloud benefits. At the same time, the platform also
ensures the consistency and level of control required
for business-critical workload environments.
Overview
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere solution (UCP Pro for VMware vSphere) cen-
tralizes and automates the management of servers,
storage and networking components as business
resource pools. Its comprehensive and simplified
management significantly reduces time to value
and operational costs for even the most demanding
applications. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere solution’s
deep integration into vSphere and VMware vCenter
enables faster deployment of cloud infrastructure and
efficient resource allocation. It also supports simple
automation and orchestration for streamlined infra-
structure management.

2. SOLUTION PROFILE
An exceptionally flexible, converged solution,
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere simplifies
deployment and management of data
centers and private cloud deployments.
Improved agility and predictability make
possible dynamic and cost-effective data
centers that can quickly respond to business
needs. It is a solution composed of storage,
servers, networking tools and software with
comprehensive management.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is designed
for maximum performance and utilization,
and leverages Hitachi best-in-class hardware
and software technology. The solution is
pretested and preconfigured to each organi-
zation’s requirements, dramatically reducing
deployment time. Unlike other offerings, UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere is an open plat-
form that supports multiple storage systems
through industry-leading Hitachi virtualization
technology. It also provides a roadmap for
multihypervisor support. Organizations can
select from different Hitachi server CPU and
memory configurations to best meet their
workload needs, or to offer multiple tiers of
compute resources.
This solution enables organizations to:
■■ Improve organizational agility by quickly
deploying new applications and services
to respond to changes in business needs
and integrate into current environments.
■■ Have certainty with the predictable reli-
ability of a robust private cloud platform
aligned to business service levels.
■■ Reduce management cost and com-
plexity with coordinated comprehensive
provisioning and administration of virtual-
ized private cloud environments.
■■ Simplify the ordering and procurement
process as well as the onboarding and
management of physical and virtual
resources.
Hitachi storage solutions help your business improve
organizational agility and lower costs by providing a
virtualized data center infrastructure that is robust,
automated and flexible.
■■ Increase operational efficiency and
resource utilization by aligning business
processes to IT execution.
■■ Improve service availability and business
continuity for critical applications.
Capabilities
You can transition your business-critical
workloads to cloud with confidence: Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere integrates infrastructure components
with comprehensive management through
familiar VMware management interfaces. UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere provides predictable
reliability in a robust, enterprise cloud platform,
based on business needs. Key capabilities
include the ability to:
■■ Start small and grow your infrastructure
quickly and easily as more workloads are
transitioned to private cloud.
■■ Simplify management of physical and
virtual resources with tight integration into
VMware.
■■ Match the appropriate tiers of resources
for each workload your cloud infrastruc-
ture supports.
■■ Improve troubleshooting with physical
and virtual infrastructure monitoring and
alerting within VMware.
■■ Provide business units with the right tier
of resources to match application and
business requirements; the solution can
contain multiple tiers of storage and com-
pute resources, enabling workloads to
be deployed with the appropriate type of
resources.
■■ Provide business unit administration
views that allow for consumption and
deployment of subscriptions.
■■ Build confidently upon the extreme reli-
ability and availability of Hitachi servers
and storage.
Accelerate Cloud Value
Your business can capitalize on quick
cloud value using the UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere solution. You’ll achieve faster
deployment of cloud infrastructure and
resource allocation as well as simplified
infrastructure deployment and management
within a VMware environment. Key capabili-
ties include the ability to:
■■ Simplify ordering, planning and imple-
mentation with a single source for
infrastructure as well as coordinated pro-
fessional services.
■■ Bring infrastructure on board quickly with
faster deployment and preconfigured
elements with Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Director (UCP Director) software.
■■ Automate and orchestrate the man-
agement of essential infrastructure
components as unified pools of business
resources from directly within the vCenter
management console.
■■ Deploy virtual machines with validation of
underlying components.
■■ Perform bare metal installations of Hitachi
servers with simplified management of all
compute resources.
Your Cloud, Your Way
The exceptional flexibility of UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere allows you to integrate
and protect your current storage invest-
ment. You can also grow the level of
automation, at your pace and scale. Key
capabilities include the ability to:
■■ Dynamically scale infrastructure as
needed with the ability to add and
manage servers in configured clusters.
■■ Bring newly available servers and storage
on board quickly, as needed, and ensure
each workload is matched to the appro-
priate tier of resources.
■■ Build on the Hitachi Data Systems port-
folio with various cloud entry points,
including a roadmap for UCP Director to
tie together various solutions over time.
■■ Respect and integrate with current and
future storage infrastructure.

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Hitachi Storage Options for
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere offers
organizations the ability to choose from
3 different, but equally capable storage
systems to best match their needs (see
Figure 1). Each offers legendary Hitachi
Data Systems reliability and is backed by
service and support with 24/7 availability.
Hitachi storage solutions help your business
improve organizational agility and lower
costs by providing a virtualized data center
infrastructure that is robust, automated and
flexible. Choose from Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage 150
(HUS 150), or Hitachi Unified Storage VM
(HUS VM).
Support Transition of Business-Critical
Workloads to Cloud
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere With
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only
3-D scaling storage platform designed for
all data types. It is the only storage archi-
tecture that flexibly scales for performance,
capacity and utilization of multivendor stor-
age assets. Its highly efficient data center
design delivers the highest performance
and capacity combined with the lowest
power consumption and lower cooling
requirements. Key capabilities include the
ability to:
■■ Scale up to meet increasing demands by
dynamically adding processors, connec-
tivity and capacity in a single unit. This
gives you optimal performance for open
systems and mainframe environments.
■■ Scale out to meet business demands
by dynamically combining multiple units
into a single logical system with shared
resources.
■■ Scale deep to extend the advanced
functions of Hitachi VSP to multivendor
storage through virtualization. Offload
less-critical data to external tiers in order
to optimize the availability of the Tier 1
resources.
■■ Support increased needs in virtualized
server environments and ensure safe
multitenancy and quality of service
through partitioning of cache and ports.
■■ Enable rapid transfer of data to new
storage with host-transparent migration.
Reduce operational risks with advanced
data replication topologies.
■■ Employ unmatched efficiency features
that yield the highest capacity available in
the least space.
■■ Work with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering software,
which automates data placement for higher
performance and lower cost. It manages
internal and external data, including mul-
tivendor and mainframe data.
■■ Rely on sustainable design, which is
highlighted by certification as a Super
Eco-Product.
Midrange Storage Without Compromise
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere and
Hitachi Unified Storage 150
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is also avail-
able with HUS 150, a midrange storage
platform with best-in-class scalability, per-
formance and availability. HUS 150 enables
support for critical applications while pro-
viding performance that can scale linearly
to industry-leading heights. You’ll achieve
faster deployment of cloud infrastructure
and resource allocation as well as simplified
infrastructure deployment and management
within a VMware environment. Key capabili-
ties include the ability to:
■■ Balance scalability and capacity to
nearly 3PB with up to 960 disks without
affecting application or virtual machine
performance.
■■ Ensure the highest data availability for
critical applications built upon legendary
Hitachi reliability.
■■ Rely on application-consistent data
protection through Hitachi Application
Protector. You can simplify backup,
recovery and failover while enabling
application-consistent snapshots for
Microsoft®
Exchange server, SQL Server®
and SharePoint®
servers.
Figure 1. Hitachi Storage System Portfolio Comparison
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4. SOLUTION PROFILE
■■ Employ thin provisioning and automatic
tiering to reduce the total cost struc-
ture and help to lower administrative
overhead.
Enterprise Storage Virtualization in a
Modular Package
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
With Hitachi Unified Storage VM
Organizations must address the con-
flicted goals of managing data growth,
controlling increasing costs and com-
plexities, and making efficient use of both
existing and new resources. For these
environments, Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere with HUS VM offers industry-
leading storage virtualization, centralizes
storage for critical applications, and pro-
vides shared services for all your storage
systems through a central management
interface. With the ability to virtualize up
to 64PB of external storage from different
manufacturers, HUS VM offers massive
consolidation capabilities. And it provides
a 100% data availability guarantee and the
ability to repurpose existing storage assets
for unprecedented savings. Key capabilities
include the ability to:
■■ Reduce storage costs up to 50% by
consolidating your existing storage into
a centrally managed pool of shared
capacity.
■■ Reclaim up to 65% of unused capacity
in your existing storage and delay pur-
chases of new equipment.
■■ Refresh your storage technology from
old to new systems for reasons of per-
formance or cost optimization with up to
80% less effort than alternatives.
■■ Reduce your carbon footprint while main-
taining higher performance, with 40%
lower power and cooling costs.
Confidence for Your Cloud
Whether your organization is getting started
with private cloud or building upon an exist-
ing infrastructure, Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Pro for VMware vSphere is an ideal
foundation. You can bring the most critical
workloads to a cloud environment with UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere. It provides pre-
dictable reliability, quick time-to-value and
the ability to rapidly expand your private
cloud environment as requirements evolve.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere improves the
utilization of IT resources while streamlining
management within VMware environments,
simplifying physical to virtual resource provi-
sioning and accelerating troubleshooting.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere eliminates the
guesswork and troubleshooting organizations
normally experience when rolling out a new
infrastructure. Easily scalable, the comprehen-
sive and simplified management with deep
component integration allows extremely fast
provisioning and “worry free” scaling to many
physical hosts and virtual machines.
This integrated and pretested solution
removes implementation burdens and
reduces the complexity and cost of
deploying and managing a private cloud.
Your organization benefits from best-
in-class technologies with extreme
reliability and maximum performance as
well as simplified procurement, imple-
mentation and management of cloud
infrastructure.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director
enables management of UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere, providing a unified view of resources
from directly within vCenter. This allows you
to align IT with business processes, using
familiar tools. UCP Director monitors all the
elements of the UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
solution under a single view and provides an
overall health status of all solution elements.
Via early indication of any impending device
failures, this solution minimizes system down-
time by directing proactive maintenance. This
monitoring further reduces the complexity
and maintenance challenges associated with
disjointed and inefficient management of
underlying cloud infrastructures, saving time
and money.
Key cloud enabling features include:
■■ Comprehensive management via integra-
tion with vCenter and vSphere through the
UCP Director software.
■■ Simplified configuration and integration of all
solution components.
■■ Appropriate tiers of resources that meet
varying workload requirements.
■■ Elastic scaling when and where needed,
with on-demand storage allocation and
processing.
The UCP Pro for VMware vSphere solution
architecture is modular and flexible to let you
move into the cloud at your own pace, without
disrupting your existing environment.
Figure 2. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere: Solution Overview

5. Components
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere solution automates and
integrates server, storage, networking and
management components. The innovative
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director
software coordinates the administration and
task workflow for servers, storage, network-
ing elements and operating software.
Server
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is based on
a blade server platform from Hitachi using
the latest Intel processor technology within
a highly reliable architecture. Its unique fea-
tures ensure the highest levels of efficiency,
application availability and uptime. Hitachi
Compute Blade 500 offers enterprise-class
performance, high-density computing
and massive throughput. Multiple RAM
and CPU configurations are supported
with Hitachi Compute Blade 500 within a
predefined architecture, which is key to
providing a flexible platform for changing
business needs.
Networking
Essential to a complete platform, standard
network components are supported to pro-
vide efficient and reliable networking. UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere utilizes Ethernet
and SAN components from Brocade that
are fully prewired and automatically con-
figured for simplified and automated virtual
LAN and SAN provisioning.
Storage
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is available
with 3 industry-leading storage options
to best meet your needs and match your
application and infrastructure requirements.
Each provides a unique set of features
that allow you to best tailor your deploy-
ment of UCP Pro for VMware vSphere.
Other common and 3rd-party storage can
be integrated into the UCP management
framework by virtualizing it through VSP or
HUS VM. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
uses unique Hitachi storage technologies
and virtualization capabilities that are inte-
grated with comprehensive management.
Management
UCP Director software is integrated directly
into vCenter and provides a unified and
comprehensive Web-based management
interface with process orchestration for
a collective group of assets as business
resource pools. UCP Director simplifies
the integration and ongoing management
of large dynamic environments. It greatly
reduces the barrier to deployment, speeds
time to value, and streamlines operational
management. These capabilities enable
UCP Director to help you reduce capital
expenditure (capex) and operating expendi-
ture (opex), even while the scope and scale
of these environments continue to grow.
This uniquely unified platform gives data
centers the enterprise scale, efficiency and
agility not found in other offerings. UCP Pro
for VMware vSphere has unmatched abil-
ity to reduce operational costs as well as
management complexities within the most
demanding data center environments and
private cloud deployments.
Best-in-class technologies and deep
technology integration make UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere ideal for consolidating and
virtualizing business-critical and enterprise
applications.
A Unique Platform
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere simplifies and accelerates
the build out of robust private cloud infra-
structures. It provides the assurance that all
the underlying server, storage and network-
ing resources are in place and aligned to
the appropriate business service levels. The
innovative Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
Director software efficiently and reliably
coordinates the management of servers,
storage, networking components and oper-
ating software as collective resources.
The extreme flexibility of the UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere solution offers what may
be one of the most important benefits: IT
investment protection. UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere allows your business to transition
to private cloud while leveraging your current
storage infrastructure. It also allows you to
add the resources and configurations that
best suit your needs in a modular manner,
as you need them. You gain the freedom to
choose only the resources and management
needed today with the ability to extend auto-
mation and resources in the future.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere supports best-in-class
reliability, performance, scalability and com-
prehensive management of enterprise data
centers and cloud deployments.
Summary
Hitachi Data Systems helps businesses
improve IT agility, lower infrastructure costs
and move to cloud with certainty with pre-
dictable reliability, quick cloud value and
exceptional flexibility. We achieve these
results by streamlining, integrating and auto-
mating a robust platform for enterprise data
centers and cloud deployments. Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere is a unified, predefined solution. It
supports your business needs today and
lets you establish a flexible foundation for
the data center of the future.
For More Information
For more information regarding the capabili-
ties of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
for VMware vSphere and how it can sup-
port your data center, please contact your
Hitachi Data Systems representative or visit
www.HDS.com.
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere:
Supported Infrastructure
Compute ■■ Hitachi Compute Blade 500
■■ Flexibility with 2-8 blades per chassis
■■ Hitachi 1U rackmount server
■■ Runs Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
Director and other management software
Storage ■■ Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
■■ Hitachi Unified Storage 150 (HUS 150)
■■ Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
■■ Other vendor storage virtualized through VSP
Software (partial list) ■■ Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director
software
■■ Hitachi Compute Storage Manager and
Hitachi Device Manager (Hitachi manage-
ment suite)
■■ VMware vCenter
■■ VMware vSphere 5.1
■■ Microsoft SQL Server 2012
■■ Microsoft Windows Server®
2008 R2
Network ■■ Brocade Ethernet and Fibre Channel
networking components
AT A GLANCE: COMPONENTS AND SUPPORT
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere:
Support for Your Data Center
■■ Employ unifying management. ■■ Integrate with current storage infrastructure.
■■ Unify orchestration and automation. ■■ Reduce management cost and complexity.
■■ Simplify ordering and administration. ■■ Unify monitoring and troubleshooting.
■■ Create and automate repeatable
processes.
AT A GLANCE: BENEFITS AND CAPABILITIES