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Taking IT to the Next Dimension

Hu YoshidaChief Technology OfficerHitachi Data Systems

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Our Heritage of InnovationD

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2010

What’s Next…

Storage Area Networks with

Switched Fabric

2000

Hitachi 9900 Lightning StorageEnabling Technology:

Internal switcharchitecture to match

scalability of SAN

Server and SANConsolidation

2004

Hitachi UniversalStorage PlatformEnabling Technology:Storage virtualization

followed by Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning in 2007

1995

Transition from Mainframes to Open Systems

Hitachi 7700 Freedom StorageEnabling Technology:

Separation of control and data for

multiple mainframe and open configurations

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Transition To Virtual Servers for Production

Customer Requirement

Integrated Storage Virtualization

Integrated Management

Courtesy of 451 Group

A Transformation is Needed

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Data Center Transformation Today

Aging infrastructures

Virtual servers aremainstream

Cloud adoption

Data Center Trends Customer Requirements

Ease of migration to new technologies

Enterprise class scalability, availability and performance

More agile infrastructure with safe multi-tenancy

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Competitive Response: Loosely Coupled Storage

Switch

Port Port

Cache

Port Port

Cache

Port Port

Cache

Port Port

Cache

This approach requires a rip and replaceof existing infrastructure

IntroducingHitachi Virtual Storage Platform and

Hitachi Command Suite

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Hitachi Innovations for Virtual Data Centers

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the industry’s first 3D scaling storage platform for all data

Hitachi Command Suite provides simplified, automated, seamless management of next generation virtualized data centers

Together they set a new industry benchmark for virtualized, enterprise-class data centers

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Scale up to meet increasing server demands

Port Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port Port

RAID RAID

Cache

3D Scaling: Scale Up with Tight Coupling

Cache Cache Cache

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3D Scaling: Scale Out with Safe Multi-tenancy

Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port

Cache

Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port

Cache

Port

RAID RAID

Cache

Port

Scale out to meet distributed server demand with load balancing and safe multi-tenancy

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3D Scaling: Scale Deep with External Virtualization

Virtualize external storage for data mobility and storage migration

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Virtual Storage Platform: Internal Switch Architecture

2 to 4 Virtual Storage Director blades – 8 to 16 cores2 to12 FED blades with 16 to 96 ports2 to 8 cache adapters with 32 to 512GB cache2 to 4 BED blades with 16 to 32 SAS links

8 Virtual Storage Director blades – 32 cores24 FED blades with 192 portsUp to 1,024GB cache8 BED blades with 64 SAS links

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Virtual Storage Platform: 3D Scaling Architecture

5th generation network crossbar switch

New control memory architecture

2.4x OLTP performance

79% increase in bandwidth

Scale up, scale out, scale deep growth path

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Virtual Storage Platform: Physical Description

13U

Standard 19” rack

• Front to back cooling

• Up to 6 racks

Dense packaging

• 13u x 19 inch

• 80 x 3.5in drives

• 128 x 2.5in drives

• SSD, SAS and SATA

Power and cooling

• 40% less power than equivalent capacity Universal Storage Platform® V

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Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Virtualize devices into a pool of 42MB pages

Provision servers in seconds

Eliminate waste by allocating pages only as used

Extend to external storage

Convert fat volumes to thin

Optimize storage performance

LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEV LDEVLDEV LDEV

HDP Pool

LDEVs

HDP Volume(Virtual LUN)

Single LDEV Windows LVM HDP Pool

716% more transactions

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Today: Automated Tiering of Storage Volumes

Tier 0

Tier 1

Tier 2

Multiple storage tiers in separate pools

SSD, SAS, SATA

We assign volume to tiers of storage based on data classificationUse virtualization to move volumes without disruptionAutomated with policy based managementBut moving large volumes is a heavy task

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SAS

SATA

EFD/Flash

Introducing Hitachi Dynamic Tiering at the Page Level

TIER 1

TIER 2

TIER 0

POOL A

Last Referenced

Last Referenced

One pool of pages now spans multiple tiers of storageVolume Data is written to the highest performance tier firstLess active volume pages migrate to lower tiersPages can be promotedVolumes no longer have to be moved to optimize performanceVolumes will be able to span across tiers on external storage

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Manage up to unify and scale large deployments

Manage out – One management platform for all data

Manage deep with integration of server and storage virtualization

Introducing Hitachi Command Suite v7: 3D Management Platform for All Data Types

BUSINESS VALUESimplify with up to 50% fewer management stepsReduce IT deployment times Remove application and virtual server bottlenecks

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Simplified Provisioning

Which Host? What Size? How Many?

6 clicks to provision storage in minutes

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Dashboard: Business Views

Business views

Administration

Reports

Dashboard provides application transparency

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A common virtualized platform for all data, content and information

Structured Rich MediaSemi-structured

Unstructured

Unified Management

Virtualized Infrastructure

Technology Strategy: One Platform for All Data

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What Hitachi Data Center Transformation Delivers

Industry’s First 3D scaling

3D

Increase utilization up to

50%

Reduce environmentals

by 40%

Reduce TCO by up to 33%

in 1st year

Increase consolidation of

servers and applications

Lower migration risk by up to 80%

Most external virtualized capacity

Reduce drive costs by up to

70%

The Use Cases

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Use Case: Enabling Cloud Deployments

3D scaling for large, dynamic, cost effective deployment

Enable safe multi-tenancy and quality of service (QoS)

Provide business level reporting and transparency

Maintain enterprise-class availability, security and privacy

Encryption of data at rest

Hitachi NAS

Platform

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Hitachi Unified

Compute Platform

Legacy Storage Platform

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage

Tier 3 or 3rd

party

Hitachi Content Platform

3rd Party

Gateway

Public Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

PrivateCloud

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Other storage companies may support VAAI, but none will provide the 3D scaling to support

the increase in I/O workload

Use Case: VAAI Integration

Fast Full Copy

Hardware Locking Offload

Block Zeroing/Write Same

85% Less I/O for common formatting task

18% Faster cloning of virtual machines, snapshot, and storage vMotion

25 to 35% More virtual machines per data store

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HDLM and MPIO

Hitachi Storage Cluster for Hyper-V

Failover Clustering

Use Case: Microsoft Integration

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Command Suite provide the highest

availability platform for Microsoft deployments

16 node Microsoft failover clusteringfor business continuity

Dynamic load balancing with full support of 3D multi-pathing

Live Migration over Distance for load balancing of applications and storage

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Data Center Transformation Solutions Today

Aging infrastructures

Virtual servers aremainstream

Cloud adoption

Hitachi Solutions

Storage virtualization and dynamic provisioning

3D scaling and tight server virtualization coupling

One platform for all data with safe multi-tenancy

Customer Requirements

Ease of migration to new technologies

Enterprise class scalability, availability and performance

More agile infrastructure with safe multi-tenancy

Data Center Trends

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STRATEGIC PARTNERSMicrosoft Windows Server, Hyper-V, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint Oracle Database Enterprise EditionSAP ERPVMware vSphere 4.1 + vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

Application-centric View

SERVICESNew Transformation Services accelerate customers’ ability to plan and design an agile IT organization Comprehensive capabilities to optimize virtualization tightly align to business objectives

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Summary

A transformed data center is a virtualized one with a large virtual pool of server and storage resources

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the industry’s first 3D scaling storage architecture that enables a virtual data center

Hitachi Command Suite v7 provides integration of server and storage virtualization with application transparency

Net result = superior data center efficiency, agility and cost savings

A New Dimension in IT Is Here