Hitachi Solutions for VMware

Proven Performance, Efficiency and Scalability

Gain the performance, availability, reliability and manageability you need for today’s critical applications, and a scalable foundation for tomorrow’s information center.
Use native VMware integration to achieve new levels of scale, reliability, cross domain visibility, data protection, utilization and efficiency while providing investment protection.
Accelerate VMware deployments, virtualize critical applications faster and with confidence, and improve business agility.

Overview

Engineered for VMware

Hitachi Data Systems and VMware have been strategic partners since 2002. Today, Hitachi is an Elite Partner in VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner program, a participant in VMware Ready Partner programs for Storage Infrastructure Services, and an embedded OEM partner. Together, Hitachi and VMware are committed to providing innovative, business-enabling, end-to-end virtualization solutions for the data center.

With 99.999% uptime and no single point of failure, Hitachi solutions are the very definition of reliability. Through our platforms, products and native VMware integrations, Hitachi provides a complete solution for today’s rapidly expanding VMware environments.

Advanced storage infrastructure provides the performance, availability, scalability and manageability for large, virtualized application environments.
Proven storage virtualization enables end-to end virtualization, accelerates VMware deployment, increases efficiency across the data center, and protects customer investments.
Native VMware integration optimizes VMware performance, utilization, VM provisioning, cross domain visibility, management and protection, and lowers capital and operational costs.
Industry-differentiated feature set and software support provide the complete solution for VMware environments.

Optimize and Accelerate VMware Deployment

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Features and Benefits

Enterprise-class infrastructure delivers highest performance, scale, resiliency and data protection.
Use of Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, and Virtual Infrastructure Integrator in a VMware environment increases storage service quality.
Primary storage de-duplication drives capacity efficiencies.
VAAI and Virtual Infrastructure Integrator offload VM processes to the storage to improve performance, VM density and backup/restore operations.
Virtual Infrastructure Integrator enables faster and space efficient clones.

Resources

White Papers

Analyst Reports

Technical Papers

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft

Microsoft SQL 2008

VMware

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Misc

The New Business Economics of Desktop Virtualization

Blogs

The Storage Economist:

Hypervisor Economics

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Webinars

Simplify Desktop Delivery with Scalable VDI Solutions: a Virtualization Review Fireside Chat with Hitachi and Brocade

Videos and Demos

ESG Lab Validation Video: HDS Unified Compute Platform

Data Discovery Suite Online Demo

Hitachi Adapters for VMware Environments

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Hitachi Adapters for VMware Environments

Learn how Hitachi storage management adapters can help you manage and monitor VMware environments. Watch or download the demo or download for iPad™.

Virtualization Review Fireside Chat - Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

Lee Pender from Virtualization Review discusses Hitachi Unified Compute Platform with Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Strategy Officer for File, Content and Cloud at HDS, and Mike Clayville, Vice President, Product Marketing, Cloud Infrastructure at VMware. Watch or download the video

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