comprehensive and simplified management for vmware vsphere environments
DESCRIPTION
Learn how to gain velocity and agility within your VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment. View this webcast and learn how to: Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi. Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting thousands of VMs across the data center. Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmwTRANSCRIPT
COMPREHENSIVE AND SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT FOR VMWARE VSPHERE ENVIRONMENTS MANJU RAMANATHPURA
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere
Environments
Join us for a live webcast and learn how to gain velocity and agility within your
VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the
management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn
how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy
business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment.
Attend this webcast and learn how to
• Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and
converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi
• Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting
thousands of VMs across the data center
• Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware
vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers
UPCOMING WEBTECHS
November
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi converged
platform, November 27, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Stay tuned for new WebTechs in January 2013!
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions
AGENDA
2012 global economic and IT outlook
Challenges for the data center administrator
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
Recommendations
Q&A session
Plan
Buy
Build
Deliver
Support
What’s wrong with this picture?
DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE
Too many handoffs
Too many tools
Too many vendors
Way too much time
DATA CENTER CONVERGENCE
AGENDA
2012 global economic and IT outlook
Challenges for the data center administrator
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
Recommendations
Q&A session
Some issues remain:
No unified view – still too many tools
Limited orchestration – still too many handoffs
Painful support – still too many vendors
CHALLENGES FOR THE DATA CENTER
ADMINISTRATOR
VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR CHALLENGES
VMware vCenter is a great tool to manage virtual machines
But VMware vCenter-based infrastructure management is limited
Missing ESXi image management
Limited host ecosystem view
No real-time hardware updates to vCenter
Storage
Limited storage system or SAN view
No storage management capability
Storage provisioning takes manual efforts across silos
No monitoring of storage environment
Network
Limited network view
VLAN and port channel configuration is tedious
No self-healing of switch configuration
No monitoring of physical switch
Server
AGENDA
2012 global economic and IT outlook
Challenges for the data center administrator
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
Recommendations
Q&A session
Enterprise-class hardware and software
Built for virtualization
Configured and tested before shipment
Flexible and scalable – right for you!
HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM PRO
FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
TRULY CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
Unified infrastructure management
Deep VMware integration
Single interface providing end-to-end inventory orchestration, provisioning, operation and monitoring of resources
UCP PRO FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
UCP DIRECTOR
UCP PRO ORCHESTRATION ARCHITECTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE ORCHESTRATION – VMWARE STACK
HCS
Elements
Element Management
HCSM Network Manager
HDvM
Server Network Storage UCP Director
Turnkey Solution
vCenter
CB 500 VSP Brocade
UCP PRO V2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
Storage – Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Compute – Hitachi Compute Blade 500
Ethernet
- Brocade 6720-60
- Brocade 6746 (in-chassis)
Fibre Channel
- Brocade 6510
- Brocade 5460 (in-chassis)
Management
- Hitachi Compute Rack 210
- Brocade FCX 648
- UCP Director Software
BASE CONFIGURATION
UCP PRO V2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
GROW AS YOU NEED TO
UCP DIRECTOR SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES
Integrated with VMware vCenter and
Hitachi Command Suite for maximum operational efficiency
Summary of features
Unified provisioning
Unified configuration
Unified topology
Unified monitoring
Unified orchestration and management
Simple to use and scalable
Provides overall health status of all
elements and indicates impending failures
Mitigates downtime by directing appropriate
actions
Seamlessly integrated with vCenter so
customers can leverage existing tools and
skills
WHY UCP PRO KEY?
Unified management and VMware vCenter integration
‒ Ability to visualize complete datacenter hardware infrastructure inside vCenter
RESTful public API and CLI for all the UCP software features
‒ Facilitate integration of UCP features with customer’s existing management stack
Unified orchestration
‒ Ability to orchestrate provisioning and configuration of resources across multiple elements
Unified monitoring and troubleshooting
‒ Ability to correlate and troubleshoot physical and virtual elements alerts
Turnkey solution
‒ Pre-installation and pre-integration of UCP hardware and software components and validation of interoperability
BENEFITS
Reduced OPEX
‒ Minimized overhead required to
Provision resources
Monitor data center infrastructure
Manage data center
‒ Efficient troubleshooting: Minimized system downtime
Reduced system provisioning cost
‒ Turnkey solution
Single throat to choke
AGENDA
2012 global economic and IT outlook
Challenges for the data center administrator
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
Recommendations
Q&A session
TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS
Look for converged systems that
are prebuilt, pre-integrated and
preconfigured
Consider how you’ll manage
your converged solution as part
of the POC
Look for tight integration
between converged
infrastructure solutions and your
VM management environment
OPERATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Employ automation (provisioning,
image deployment, etc.)
wherever possible
Insist on measuring time-to-value
and time-to-deploy
Take service and support
seriously: “One throat to choke”
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Useful links
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-
platform/vmware-vsphere.html
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDScorp/videos?query=ucp+pro
AGENDA
2012 global economic and IT outlook
Challenges for the data center administrator
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
Recommendations
Q&A session
QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
UPCOMING WEBTECHS
November
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi converged
platform, November 27, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Stay tuned for new WebTechs in January 2013!
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions
THANK YOU