Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) - Hitachi Data Systems

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Hitachi Data Ingestor

Bottomless, Backup-free Cloud On-ramp

HDI - Bottomless, Backup-free Cloud On-ramp

 

HDI Cluster - Highly Available Cluster Pair Hitachi Data Ingestor Single-node Hitachi Data Ingestor VMware Appliance

HDI Cluster

Highly available cluster pair

HDI Single-node

Non-redundant configuration

HDI VMware Appliance

Deploy on VMWare  vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)

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  • Bottomless and backup-free storage solution with advanced edge-to-core integration gives you seamless access to storage for distributed users and cloud consumers
  • Native file system access (CIFS and NFS) into centralized core infrastructures
  • Wide range of advanced storage features for simplified, automated and centralized management
Overview

Integrated Edge-to-core Storage Solution

Hitachi Data Ingestor simplifies and accelerates cloud and distributed IT environments by delivering a truly bottomless and backup-free storage solution while ensuring effective control, compliance and cost reduction.

Features and benefits

  • Three configuration options:
    • Dual node configuration with SAN-attached storage
    • Single node configuration with internal direct-attached storage (DAS)
    • VMware configuration (software-only), running on VMware vSphere Hypervisor and available in a high availability architecture
  • Content sharing – enables “edge-dispersion” of data across a network of HDI systems
    • Deploy a wide area content distribution framewor
  • File restore
    • Retrieve previous versions of a file as well as deleted files
    • Maintain file and directory access control
  • NAS migration
    • Transparently migrate data from NAS and Windows Servers to HDI
    • Automate throttling and continuous migration of data into HDI

Rein in Cloud with Edge-to-core Storage

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

Edge-to-Core for Cloud

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