VMware Ecosystem Adapters

Hitachi Storage Provider for VMware vCenter

Summary

• Provides VMware admins with storage awareness capabilities (VASA) and tagging services for VMFS and VMware vSphere VVol environments
• Required for a VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols) deployment on Hitachi storage for policy-controlled software-defined data center
• Enables granular provisioning of storage resources, management of VMs and QoS services
• Reduces operational burden between virtual infrastructure administrator and storage administrator

Hitachi Infrastructure Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations (vROPS)

Summary

• Provides infrastructure metrics so administrators can manage performance, capacity and health from single integrated tool with deep VM topology awareness
• Provides troubleshooting dashboard to identify & remediate potential issues quickly
• Enables reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR) and reduces cost of unavailable service
• Deep visibility into Hitachi storage components through dashboards:
  • Top resource consumers
  • Performance, capacity and health

Hitachi Storage Connector for VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)

Summary

• Provides infrastructure automation workflows so administrators can automate actions against Hitachi storage and software as they build self-service catalog services for customers
• Automates and orchestrates Hitachi storage tasks (supporting both block and file)
• Enhances the capabilities of VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator solution by providing access to Hitachi storage/software-specific workflows. For example:
  • Provision storage datastore or LUN
  • Recover VM snapshot

Hitachi Storage Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight

Summary

• Provides log analytics so administrators can make informed operational decisions based on rich intelligence from Hitachi storage logs
• Delivers real-time log management to administrators for intelligent analysis and better troubleshooting across physical and virtual infrastructure
• Simplifies searching for errors by collecting and grouping information to show important, relevant and useful events
• Provides a comprehensive view into Hitachi storage systems to spot potential issues and track components showing departure from normal operation logs

Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Summary

• Provides integrated vCenter plugin experience for datastore lifecycle automation against Hitachi storage systems
• Allows vCenter administrator to create datastores for ESXi hosts/clusters
• Providing visibility into mapping of datastores to Hitachi storage system resources
• 10x improvement in datastore provisioning time on latest VSP storage platforms
• Support datastore provisioning with deduplication and compression settings

Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

Summary

• Enables VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to integrate with Hitachi storage
• Allows customers to manage and automate failover/failback and perform DR testing with Hitachi Storage in VMware environments across 2/3 datacenter configurations. Provides integrated vCenter plugin experience for datastore lifecycle automation against Hitachi storage systems
• Supports active-active metrocluster sites and DR sites
• Automated failover in disaster recovery scenario
• Enables nondisruptive disaster recovery testing

Hitachi Compute Connector for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

Summary

• Provides infrastructure automation workflows so administrators can automate actions against Hitachi compute as they build self-service catalog services for customers
• Server configuration, discovery and additional management functionality for customizing automation

Hitachi Compute Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Summary

• Provides sufficient level of host automation so administrators can automate actions against Hitachi compute within the same interface that they manage ESXi/VMs
• Deep visibility into Hitachi Compute Blade (CB) 500, CB 2000 and VMs in VMware vSphere Web Client
• Ability to perform power, LID and remote console operations on CB 500 and CB 2000 servers

Hitachi Compute Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight

Summary

• Provides log analytics so administrators can make informed operational decisions based on rich intelligence gleaned from Hitachi compute logs
• Provides real-time log management for VMware environments, with machine-learning-based intelligent grouping, high-performance search and better troubleshooting
• Collects and analyzes all types of Hitachi compute systems related data and provides intuitive dashboards, including overview, power, security, configuration and maintenance
• Provides visibility into unauthorized logins, credential misuse, privilege escalations and anomalies, to easily identify potential malicious activity

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor)

Summary

• UCP Advisor is management automation software for converged, hyper-converged and IAAS environments
• Enables smart infrastructure resource lifecycle management for compute, network and storage
• Enables programmatic access for infrastructure orchestration as part of cloud deployments
• Simplifies IT for virtualized, converged and hyperconverged systems

Hitachi Converged Adapter for VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite

Summary

• Reduce management complexity and shortening mean time to resolution
• Gain deep visibility into the state of converged infrastructure through the following dashboards:
  • Inventory: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) network; UCP storage
  • Utilization: UCP network utilization; UCP storage utilization
  • Performance: UCP network performance; UCP storage performance

Hitachi Ops Center Protector with Hitachi Virtual Infrastructure Integrator (V2I)

Replication Management and Efficient Snapshot Data Protection

• Virtual-machine-focused storage-snapshot-based backup
• Enable zero backup window
• Reduced storage consumption
• Support for block and file VMware deployments

Simplified Operations

• Integrated VMware vSphere user interface experience
• Flexible backup groups and policies