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1. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions
Move Important Applications to Your
Private Cloud or Managed Hosting
Services Provider
In today’s fast-paced world, IT organizations
spend almost a quarter of their time and resourc-
es evaluating and installing increasingly disparate
hardware components. They must integrate serv-
ers, storage and networking infrastructure, and
then add a virtualization layer on which they can
finally place enabling and application software.
Deployment times are often lengthy ordeals, where
products don’t work or integrate as easily as their
respective suppliers have advertised. As such,
there’s an opportunity cost that often exceeds an
organization’s business plan prediction. In addi-
tion, today’s business leaders are dealing with
budgets that have a large, fixed-cost component.
To solve this problem, many organizations are
evaluating converged infrastructure solutions.
OVERVIEW

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Have certainty with the predictable reliability
of a robust private cloud platform aligned to
business service levels. Reduce management
cost and complexity with coordinated com-
prehensive provisioning and administration of
virtualized private cloud environments. Simplify
the ordering and procurement process as well
as deploying and managing physical and vir-
tual resources. Increase operational efficiency
and resource utilization by aligning business
processes to IT execution.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
for VMware vSphere
Hitachi UCP solutions are designed for max-
imum performance and utilization, leveraging
Hitachi best-in-class hardware and software
technology. Unlike other offerings, UCP Pro
for VMware vSphere is an open platform that
can support multiple storage systems through
industry-leading Hitachi virtualization technology.
Administrators also can have the ability to select
from different server CPU and memory configu-
rations to best meet their workload needs, or to
offer multiple tiers of compute resources.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere offers compre-
hensive and simplified management via the
innovative Hitachi UCP Director software. UCP
Director significantly reduces time to value and
operational costs for even the most demanding
applications. UCP Director’s deep integration
into VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter
enables faster deployment of cloud infrastruc-
ture and efficient resource allocation. It also
enables simple automation and orchestration
for streamlined infrastructure management.
Bring infrastructure onboard quickly with faster
deployment and preconfigured elements.
Automate and orchestrate the management
of essential infrastructure components as uni-
fied pools of business resources from directly
within the VMware vCenter management con-
sole. Simplified configuration and integration
of all solution components accelerates time to
value for your most demanding applications.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has addressed
these challenges by creating a range of con-
verged infrastructure solutions that offer IT
organizations flexible and highly integrated
turnkey offerings. Now, IT organizations
can immediately deploy a flexible solution
composed of servers, storage, networking
switches and software products. Capabilities
include data protection and management, and
the solutions are tested with specific work-
loads for applications from HDS partners.
These converged infrastructure solutions
from HDS and its partners are validated and
certified to ensure their supportability. They
are sold as application-optimized reference
solutions, and they include the flexibility users
require to mix and match some of the com-
ponents. For even faster deployments, IT
organizations can immediately install a tightly
integrated turnkey converged infrastructure
solution for private cloud. This turnkey solu-
tion features 3rd-party virtualization, which is
preconfigured and certified to run a large or
midsize data center’s mission-critical appli-
cations. In addition, HDS handles all your
technical support needs for the whole solution.
No more vendor finger-pointing. Just call us!
Introducing Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform Solutions for
Mission-Critical Workloads
Hitachi Data Systems offers 2 solution types:
The 1st is known as Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform (UCP) Select, also referred to as
an application-optimized reference solution.
Hitachi offers several categories of these
horizontally focused reference solutions and
continually expands and refreshes these offer-
ings to deliver best-in-class solutions that keep
pace with your business needs. The 2nd solu-
tion expands upon UCP Select. It is known
as Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro, also
referred to as an integrated turnkey solution.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
UCP Select solutions represent a portfolio
of best-in-class, integrated and converged
infrastructure platforms. They accelerate
the most used applications in desktop and
server virtualization, collaboration, database,
data warehousing and business analytics.
Each UCP Select solution offers investment
protection through a building-block approach
that easily expands when needed. This
functionality ensures that IT organizations
can quickly and efficiently meet the rapidly
changing needs of their employer. Plus, a cus-
tomizable open architecture can extend UCP
Select capabilities while eliminating inevitable
component compatibility concerns.
IT organizations achieve improved business
economics through lower capital expenditure
(capex), operating expenditure (opex) and total
cost of ownership (TCO) over the traditional
3-year measurement period. Much of an orga-
nization’s budget is used to support fixed costs.
These solutions offer business efficiencies that
can be turned into a competitive advantage
because they offer almost immediate deploy-
ment with greater workload throughput to
improve business velocity and profitability.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
The appeal of UCP Pro is that it helps IT orga-
nizations substantially cut deployment time
and complexity associated with implementing
a foundation platform to support a public or
private cloud infrastructure. UCP Pro has all the
hardware and software elements of UCP Select
but has an additional orchestration layer. Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Director delivers
the orchestration capabilities IT professionals
require to easily and quickly manage and
administrate a virtualized cloud infrastructure.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform for Virtualization
Each UCP solution for VMware vSphere and
Microsoft®
Private Cloud is specifically con-
figured to maximize the value of your server
virtualization environment. Equipment is neither
overpurchased nor overprovisioned.
Improve organizational agility by quickly
deploying new applications and services to
respond to changes in business needs and
integrate them into current environments.
Hitachi Data Systems keeps pace with your business needs with
2 best-in-class solution types for mission-critical workloads:
Hitachi UCP Select, an application-optimized reference
solution, and Hitachi UCP Pro, an integrated turnkey solution.

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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for VMware vSphere with Cisco Unified
Computing System
This complete end-to-end reference solution
for VMware vSphere delivers the highest
performance, availability and efficiency in the
industry. It uses industry-leading components
from Hitachi and Cisco, and is designed
around Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP),
Cisco Unified Fabric network and Cisco Unified
Computing System (UCS). These compute,
network and storage resources are natively
integrated with VMware vSphere, creating a
simple, flexible and cost-effective deployment
of your virtualized data center architecture.
VSP is the only storage system in the industry
to offer a 100% data availability warranty. Its
native integration means multiple VMware
ESXi servers can offload workloads, such as
VMotion, to the Hitachi storage controller. This
frees resources on the server, reduces traffic
on the network and dramatically improves
infrastructure efficiency.
Using only tested and validated components,
UCP Select for VMware vSphere with Cisco
UCS reduces the risk of introducing new tech-
nologies to your data center.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for Microsoft®
Private Cloud
Reap the benefits of private cloud solutions
quickly, with predictable performance, faster
deployment and less risk. UCP Select for
Microsoft Private Cloud gives you a prevali-
dated reference solution. It provides guides to
combine compute blades and storage from
Hitachi Data Systems with network infrastruc-
ture and Microsoft Windows Server®
2012 with
Hyper-V®
and System Center 2012 software.
Create building blocks for a cloud environment
that give you the flexibility to scale quickly, as
needed, with known results. It’s all based on
industry-leading high-quality Hitachi servers
and storage, so you can quickly address cur-
rent business needs.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform for Business Analytics
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for SAP HANA Platform
SAP High-Performance Analytic Application
(HANA) is a modern platform that lets you
analyze business operations based on a large
volume and variety of detailed data in real
time. In addition, SAP delivers a class of real-
time applications, powered by the SAP HANA
platform. These applications can be deployed
as an appliance or delivered as a service via
the cloud.
UCP Select for SAP HANA solutions enable
users with in-memory analytics to work with large
volumes of data to compile real-time results.
These highly robust and resilient turnkey
systems are validated and certified for
supportability and come in scale-out and
scale-up configurations. With both these
solutions, 24/7, mission-critical SAP HANA
environments are made possible with
enterprise-class, top-of-the line Hitachi
Unified Storage (HUS) and Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform (VSP) storage and best-
in-class server hardware, providing high
availability, disaster tolerance and backup.
Converged Scale-Out Solution
This converged scale-out solution helps orga-
nizations to dramatically accelerate analytics
on a high-performing platform that can scale
to 16 nodes with 8TB of memory. Scalability
is achieved through Hitachi symmetric multi-
processing (SMP), high availability and disaster
tolerance through Hitachi TrueCopy replication,
and backup through Symantec NetBackup.
Converged Scale-Up Solution
The converged scale-up solution enables
organizations to run SAP Business Suite,
powered by SAP HANA, on a high-performing
platform that supports 2TB of memory. In
addition, the platform is the perfect solution for
prototype environments for enterprises deter-
mining their business options.
Additionally, organizations working with Hitachi
and SAP can now streamline SAP Application
Management with Hitachi infrastructure to
meet their business needs. They gain increased
IT agility with Hitachi Storage Adapter for
SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Management (LVM), which integrates core
functions of Virtual Storage Platform with
LVM software.
UCP Select for SAP HANA delivers SAP
in-memory computing technology on an
optimally configured appliance that scales
for more capacity without adding complexity.
These solutions are delivered as ready-to-
deploy appliances. To deploy these solutions
even faster, organizations can use one of the
Hitachi Global Systems Integrator Partners
or the Hitachi Consulting Corporation “Live
in Five” program for an immediate return
on investment (ROI). This program has an
average deployment timeline of weeks, not
months. IT professionals are able to reduce
risk while keeping costs to a minimum.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform for Databases and
Data Warehousing
To keep up with the growth of databases,
companies have rushed to add storage and
servers without considering how existing stor-
age resources might be better utilized. Adding
resources often requires more administrators
and software layers to manage the expan-
sion. Without a holistic strategy for optimizing
Oracle Database or Microsoft SQL Server®
environments, unsystematic growth and its
associated uncontrolled costs can create an
increasingly expensive cycle.
Through a combination of Hitachi UCP Select
solutions and our expertise in Oracle Database
and Microsoft SQL Server environments,
Hitachi Data Systems can help your company
control capital and operational costs. At the
same time, we can help you increase perfor-
mance, data protection and flexibility. We help
ensure the right information is available in the
right place, at the right time — and for the
right cost.

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Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform for Collaboration
Regardless of the size of an organization,
Microsoft Exchange administrators are
constantly faced with shifting and adjusting
resources. They must meet end user and
business requirements in a predictable and
scalable manner. Or, they may request that
their IT departments adjust resources on
their behalf. Capacity, performance and avail-
ability needs are often at odds with budget
constraints, as well as each other. These
concerns require careful balancing in order to
meet data and application expectations.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for Microsoft®
Exchange Server 2010
UCP Select for Microsoft Exchange Server
2010 is engineered for rapid deployment.
It is tightly integrated with the powerful fea-
tures in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
for resilience, predictable performance and
seamless scalability. This solution supports
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Availability Group
(DAG) and starts at 5,000 mailboxes. It
can then be easily and quickly expanded
in a building block approach to 96,000
mailboxes. This type of expandability
means there’s no upfront overpurchasing or
overprovisioning. Companies and Internet
service providers can grow their head count
through acquisitions or online offers, without
worrying about whether their back-end infra-
structure can handle the growth.
Hitachi Service Offerings
Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution
Services (GSS) offers proven methodologies
and a comprehensive Professional Services
portfolio to help manage solution infrastruc-
ture. Our team of professionals understands
the latest in integrated solutions, related
technologies and complex IT architec-
tures. We take a strategic approach to
services by linking technology to business
requirements. That means we can deliver a
best-fit, high-performance solution tailored
to meet precise business needs.
For Hitachi UCP Pro and Hitachi UCP Select
solutions, GSS provides best practices and
knowledge on how best to design, plan and
implement your storage infrastructure to opti-
mize migrations and management. Working
with Hitachi Consulting and other leading
consultants, GSS can provide an extended
range of application services. We address all
solution environments, including assessments
and readiness, architecture design, solution
implementation and deployment.
These services could include:
■■ Server migrations.
■■ Data migration planning.
■■ Design and implementation for the con-
verged platform.
■■ Archiving and compliance.
■■ Unified communications.
■■ Managed services (onsite and remote
options available).
For More Information
To learn more about how Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform solutions can help you
spend less time managing your converged
infrastructure for the private cloud and more
time solving business challenges, please con-
tact your Hitachi Data Systems representative
or visit www.HDS.com.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for Oracle Database
UCP Select for Oracle Database is engineered
to support older Oracle database releases (9i
and 10g) and the most up-to-date version,
11g. They are pretested and qualified to pro-
vide predictable performance and the highest
reliability in demanding, dynamic Oracle envi-
ronments, something Hitachi has been offering
for over 20 years. This solution combines
Hitachi compute and storage components and
is validated to ensure consistent, predictable
results for mission-critical environments run-
ning Oracle online transaction and application
processing (OLTP and OLAP).
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
for Microsoft®
SQL Server®
UCP Select for Microsoft SQL is engineered to
solve performance concurrency issues. It does
this by using a balanced architecture of com-
pute and storage processing power for general
and complex queries. Complex queries must
have matching CPU and storage performance
to avoid slow sequential reads to fill query
requirements. Anything else is considered
an unbalanced system, which results in
slow data warehouse reporting, dashboards
and analytics that end users find unac-
ceptable. Further, mounting additional data
volumes increases the amount of supported
data and also increases the number of end
users who wish to access the data.
Microsoft SQL Server data warehousing solu-
tions are reaching a point where enterprises
now consider them mission-critical “must
haves” that help them to stay competitive.
UCP Select for Microsoft SQL Server can help
these enterprise users to fast track deploy-
ment of a balanced solution and immediately
query large amounts of data.