Basic Operating System

Gain Business Agility and Improved Operations

• Consolidates and rationalizes storage and storage management points, uses a single Device Manager server to manage all Hitachi storage, enables remote access using secure protocols
• Configures storage system for mixed Microsoft, UNIX, Linux, and IBM® mainframe environments, simplifying administrative work and enabling storage consolidation
• Improves IT productivity through consistent administrative operations across storage and operating systems, simplifies everything else, including SAN multipathing, data replication, migration and storage tiering
• Supports advanced SAN multipathing with centralized management
• Supports business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities by configuring Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication software and Hitachi Universal Replicator remote replication software
• Integrates Hitachi storage with other management systems through SNMP or CIM/SMI-S

Align Storage Assets with Business Functions

• Enables easy deployment of storage resources
• Combines immediate view of all classes of available storage and current use with an easy way to rapidly allocate more storage to improve storage utilization
• Defines logical groups for reporting and management purposes and uses group names that are meaningful to you
• Organizes, manages and reports on storage, based on applications, departments and storage classes
• Generates reports by host, storage system or logical group with HTML or CSV output

Optimize Storage System Performance

• Ensures storage service levels to individual servers or applications. Allows workload balancing and performance troubleshooting
• Enables monitoring and tuning to minimize unnecessary I/Os, logical device contention and operating system queuing
• Provides tunable performance on a per server basis via cache partitioning and per port bandwidth reservation

Achieve Operational Excellence through Automation and Risk Reduction

• Automates repeated tasks via CLI requests to reduce administrative expense and risk of error from manual processes
• Provides risk reduction through centralized management of Hitachi storage system-based replication products

Hitachi Basic Operating System includes the following licensed components:

Device Manager is the primary control point for Basic Operating System, provides a single point of management for all Hitachi physical and virtual storage. Device Manager acts as the interface for integration with other systems

Partition manager supports up to 4 cache partitions on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), or 4 cache or storage partitions on Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) and VM (USP VM.)

Dynamic Provisioning provides thin provisioning for simplified provisioning operations, automatic performance optimization and storage space savings (only included on VSP).

Dynamic Link Manager Advanced provides advanced SAN multipathing with centralized management (included only on VSP).

Storage Navigator version appropriate for the storage system included and used by Device Manager, shows individual physical storage system configuration and status information and sends administrative commands to the storage system.

Command control interface is used for low level scripted control of storage system microcode functions such as replication.

Virtual Partition Manager enables the partitioning, up to 4 partitions, of cache on VSP and ports, and of cache and disk (parity groups) on USP V and USP VM.

Performance Monitor intuitive, graphical interface assists with performance management information in capacity and configuration planning, workload balancing, analyzing and optimizing storage system performance.

LUN manager and LUN expansion lets administrators define, configure, add, delete, revise and reassign LUNs to specific paths without system rebooting. Its infrastructure supports alternative path failover, path load balancing and clustered servers.

Logical unit size expansion (LUSE) creates virtual expandable LUs out of physical groups.

Virtual LVI and LUN manager, also called open customized volume size, lets administrators create custom-sized logical volumes. It better utilizes physical capacity and boosts remote copy performance by eliminating the need to copy large volumes of partially used information.

SAN security feature adds LUN masking/host groups to secure SAN environments by denying access to unauthorized users at the port level.

Server Priority Manager allows customers to meet application performance SLAs by prioritizing server port access, assuring that critical applications are not adversely affected by non-critical applications.

Cache residency manager feature and cache manager utility feature allow users to "lock" and "unlock" data into cache in real time to optimize access to the most frequently accessed data.

Data Retention Utility for Open Systems and IBM® z/OS® provides virtual disk-based "write once, read many" (WORM) capability. Archived data can be nonerasable and nonrewritable for prescribed periods, facilitating regulatory compliance.

Volume shredder feature erases sensitive data after the prescribed retention period.

SMI-S provider, SNMP agent and VSS support provide standards based integration with enterprise management systems.