HDS Simplifies Journey to Software-Defined Data Center

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announces early support of vSphere Virtual Volumes, simplifying customers’ cloud journey and extending the value of Hitachi’s infrastructure solutions.

The combination of vSphere Virtual Volumes policy based automation and the infrastructure solutions from HDS provide the continuous infrastructure foundation for customers.

Building on a history of VMware support, HDS worked with VMware as a partner to be among the first storage providers to deliver the benefits of vSphere Virtual Volumes and extend that functionality with the capabilities of Hitachi storage systems to our mutual customers. Deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes, they can look forward to the functionality, performance and reliability as the bedrock for private and hybrid cloud deployments.

The VMware framework will be implemented across a variety of HDS offerings, including its Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family of storage systems. This adds to a list of VMware API and application support HDS currently offers. With customers increasingly looking to deploy converged infrastructure solutions, they can look forward to the benefits of this integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform, and advanced Unified Compute Platform Director integration with VMware vCenter. The combination of storage solutions, converged infrastructure management and HDS vSphere Virtual Volumes implementation will reduce storage management overhead and increase IT efficiency.

“vSphere Virtual Volumes is a major technological advancement in the storage ecosystem,” said Ravi Chalaka, VP marketing, HDS. “The implementation of vSphere Virtual Volumes can solve several key issues for customers: over-provisioning of storage, inflexibility to perform granular data services, complex provisioning and manual operational changes. Hitachi solutions for vSphere Virtual Volumes will enable faster go-to market, and reduce overall storage costs with more efficient utilization of storage capacity and less management overhead. It will provide increased scalability and enhanced automation with policy-based storage management.“

Combining vSphere Virtual Volumes benefits with Hitachi storage virtualization and converged management software yields a SDS management framework, bringing the software-defined data center to fruition. With the introduction of a policy-based management system, VM and application provisioning becomes more streamlined and subsequent adjustments become less time consuming.

“vSphere Virtual Volumes is a key solution for the software-defined data center,” said Gaetan Castelein, Sr. director of product management, storage and availability, VMware, Inc. “As more workloads are becoming virtualized, Hitachi’s solutions with vSphere Virtual Volumes will play a strong role in helping customers realize the benefits of simplifying IT infrastructure through efficient storage technologies in the software-defined data center.“