Hitachi Data Ingestor

Elastic, Backup-free Cloud File Serving

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Elastic and backup-free storage solution for distributed users and cloud consumers
Native file system access (CIFS and NFS) into centralized cloud infrastructures
Wide range of advanced storage features for simplified, automated and centralized management

Overview

Integrated Edge-to-core Storage Solution

Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) is an elastic and backup-free cloud on-ramp and filer. HDI with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is an integrated storage solution that is seamlessly scalable and backup-free for distributed consumers of IT, such as remote offices, branch offices (ROBO) and cloud storage users. Hitachi Data Ingestor provides a standard connection, or on-ramp, into the core data center without requiring application recoding and without changing the way users interact with storage today. Because HDI acts as a caching device, it gives users and applications seemingly endless storage and a host of newly available capabilities. These features reduce management time and cost by eliminating the need to constantly manage capacity, utilization and performance of the system.

Content sharing and roaming home directories enable simplified access and management across different sites.
- Deploy a wide area content distribution framework.
Data protection and file restore.
- No need for tape backup.
- Data security and encryption.
- Retrieve previous versions of a file as well as deleted files.
- Maintain file and directory access control.
Automated migration.
- Easily transition from NAS and Windows Servers to HDI.

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Features and Benefits

Features

Hitachi Data Ingestor offers:

Data movement from distributed environments into centralized core infrastructures and maintains a local link to the content for fast retrieval.
Wide range of advanced storage features for simplified, automated and centralized management.
- Content sharing across a network of HDI systems.
- File restore.
- NAS migration.
Support for leading WAN acceleration solutions for WAN optimization and data compression and deduplication over the WAN.

Benefits

Reduces costs
- Eliminates backups at the edge by providing a highly available on-ramp into a centralized storage solution and taking advantage of robust storage management capabilities.
- Reduces the overall IT footprint and delivers a variety of storage services from a single infrastructure.
- Improves efficiency and utilization by consolidating distributed silos.
Reduces complexity
- Simplifies and speeds onboarding of new users or applications and time-to-market for cloud services.
- Easily adapts to changes in scale, adopts new storage technologies, and mitigates the impact of infrastructure changes.
- Monitors, reports, and audits usage with built-in tools.
Reduces risk
- Automates management and enforcement of regulatory, governance and data lifecycle policies.
- Secures and protects content with encryption, WORM, replication, RAID, data integrity checks and more.
- Supports full integration with Active Directory and LDAP.
Streamlines cloud deployments and adoption
- Supports multitenant, multi-namespace environments.

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Specifications

Architecture	2.4GHz Intel XEON E5620 processors per node 12GB RAM per node 4 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports per node Available as a dual-node or single-node appliance, or on VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Capacity (usable)	4TB Scales to 400 million files per HDI
Management	Initial Setup Wizard Management Interface (GUI, SSL) CLI over SSH Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Network Time Protocol (NTP) DFS
Name Services	Dynamic mapping between UNIX user and Microsoft Windows user Static Mapping between UNIX user and Windows user DNS Active Directory NIS
Security and Compliance	LDAP v3 POSIX ACLs, NTFS ACLs HTTPS for communication with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) over WAN Aligns with HCP namespaces to enforce access and policy control at the file system level WORM retention support available as an option, using industry standard atime-based interface, or through user-settable auto-commit feature that requires no application programming External Syslog server RADIUS support
Backup	NDMP v4 Backup/Restore via HCP
Protocols supported	CIFS SMB1.0 SMB2.0 NFSv2, v3, v4 FTP
Network	Network Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) Tagged VLAN(IEEE802.1q) Link alternation

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