Hitachi solutions for Microsoft® Private Cloud Fast Track are prevalidated, easy-to-order infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service solutions for building private clouds. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp

1. Transform Application Delivery With Microsoft
Private Cloud
Microsoft private cloud solutions, built on Windows
Server®
2012 with Hyper-V®
V3 and Microsoft System
Center 2012 SP1, are key to rapid application deployment
using Hitachi Data Systems infrastructure for cloud
computing. Our solutions help organizations and service
providers deploy dedicated Hitachi infrastructure-
as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS)
environments that transform the way they deliver IT
services. A Microsoft private cloud provides unified
resource pools, allowing you to dynamically allocate IT
resources across business units. With dynamic allocation,
IT can deploy applications quickly and scale the
underlying infrastructure to meet critical needs whenever
and wherever the application requirements change.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for
Microsoft®
Private Cloud
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Microsoft private cloud solutions are optimized for
application delivery and provide both the flexibility
and control to harness the full power of the cloud
today. These solutions are:
■■ Tightly integrated with the System Center
Management Suite to enable rapid provisioning of
virtual machines (VMs) using small, medium and
large PowerShell Script templates and System
Center Orchestrator Run Books.
■■ Easily customizable, allowing you to build “Gold
Image Libraries” and manage consistent deploy-
ment of fully imaged VMs.
■■ Preconfigured at Hitachi Distribution Centers.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Select for
Microsoft Private Cloud solutions provide tightly
integrated server, network and storage infrastruc-
ture that is built using Microsoft validated reference
architectures with preconfigured gigabit Ethernet
VLANs, networks and storage pools.
■■ Designed for predictable, scalable performance to
deploy and manage Hyper-V-based VMs.
■■ Validated to host Microsoft enterprise applications.

2. SOLUTION PROFILE
■■ Shared pools of resources.
■■ Scalable and elastic.
■■ Continuous availability.
■■ Automated workflow.
■■ Integrated security and identity.
■■ Predictable, multitenant platform.
■■ Usage metering and chargeback.
■■ Self-service portal and services
catalog.
SOLUTION FEATURES
Hitachi IaaS and PaaS solutions provide
more than a virtualization platform, they pro-
vide an application ecosystem designed and
validated for mission-critical workloads. Our
infrastructure supports 99.999% service level
agreements (SLAs), allowing you to host
applications with confidence. If you need
100% SLA guarantees, Hitachi can do it.
Through just-in-time provisioning of IaaS
and PaaS on dedicated resources, your
organization can streamline processes on
a standardized, reliable and scalable plat-
form. You also can be more responsive to
business needs, and able to more fully use
available hardware.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Select for Microsoft
Private Cloud
Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft Private Cloud
provides prevalidated, easy-to-order IaaS and
PaaS solutions for building private clouds.
These solutions combine Microsoft software,
consolidated guidance and validated config-
urations with Hitachi compute and storage
technologies, as well as value-added software
components.
Hitachi UCP Select for Microsoft Private
Cloud offers a simplified approach to deliv-
ering scalable, preconfigured and validated
infrastructure platforms for on-premises
private cloud implementations. With local
control over data and operations, your IT staff
can dynamically pool, allocate, secure and
manage resources for an agile infrastructure or
platform as a service. Likewise, business units
can deploy line-of-business applications with
speed and consistency using self-provisioning
(and decommissioning) and automated data
center services in a virtualized environment.
Private Cloud on Your Terms
Microsoft and Hitachi deliver on the promise
of agile private clouds with a preracked, fault-
tolerant cloud platform that has been validated
to Microsoft standards. Your organization
gains the advantage of a simplified infrastruc-
ture solution that has been optimized to work
with Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
V3. For virtual machine and infrastructure
deployment, integrated management with
Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 can help
to eliminate the need for 3rd-party orchestra-
tion and automation vendors (who may lack
deep knowledge of the infrastructure). Looking
toward the future, System Center 2012
enables proactive management of both your
physical and virtual environments, whether
on-premises or hosted, through a unified user
interface and consistent policies.
Faster Deployment
Rich features and support make private
clouds easy to deploy.
■■ Preconfigured end-to-end architectures
with deployment guidance.
■■ Streamlined infrastructure deployment
due to predefined configurations.
■■ Enhanced functionality and automation
with deep System Center infrastructure
integration.
■■ Seamless management for virtual
machine and infrastructure deployment.
Reduced Risk
Validated configurations mean you can
implement a private cloud with confidence.
■■ Tested, end-to-end interoperability of
compute, storage and network.
■■ Predefined, out-of-box solutions based
on a common cloud architecture.
■■ High degree of performance, service and
availability with automated load balancing.
Predictable Results
With Hitachi, you can create an avenue for
further automation and orchestration.
■■ Building blocks for private cloud infra-
structures with predictable performance
and flexibility.
■■ Prevalidated IaaS and PaaS solutions that
are easy to order and deploy, and com-
bine best-in-class Hitachi storage and
servers with networking and Microsoft
software.
■■ Ability to quickly deploy applications for
your private cloud.
Table 1 presents the 2 available configurations
of UCP Select for Microsoft Private Cloud.
Technology Overview
Microsoft Technologies
Your organization can take advantage of
the cost savings of virtualization through
Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V V3.
Multiple server roles can be consolidated as
separate virtual machines on a single phys-
ical machine that runs different operating
systems in parallel and uses the power of
x64 computing.
System Center 2012 allows organizations
to address their unique business needs
while incorporating infrastructure elements
into a private and public cloud environment.
A cloud and data center management
solution, Microsoft System Center 2012
provides you with common tool set that
enables flexible and cost-effective cloud
infrastructure while giving users self-service
access to your cloud environment.
This solution:
■■ Spans physical, virtual and cloud
computing models with common man-
agement experiences throughout.
■■ Provides comprehensive, end-to-end
management for infrastructure and
applications, including interoperability for
heterogeneous environments.
With Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft
Private Cloud, organizations can quickly deploy private
cloud infrastructures with predictable results and create
an avenue for further automation and orchestration.

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TABLE 1. VALIDATED REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES
■■ Offers compelling economic value when
deploying a private cloud solution.
■■ Enables the management and monitoring
of private and public clouds from a single
user interface.
■■ Provides deep insight into application
performance, enabling SLAs to be man-
aged and supported with confidence.
Hitachi solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V, with
integrated Microsoft System Center manage-
ment, enable data center deployments for the
complete Microsoft vertically integrated tech-
nologies, using the following integrations:
■■ VSS – Hitachi hardware provider for
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services
(VSS), used to create storage-based
snapshots.
■■ VDS – Hitachi hardware provider for
Volume Disk Services, used to monitor
the status of Hitachi storage devices.
■■ SCOM MP – Hitachi provides integrations
for Systems Center Operations Manager
Management Packs allowing for alerts and
notifications for Hitachi storage devices.
■■ VMM – Hitachi integrations for Microsoft
Virtual Machine Manager, a scripted
environment that lets you automate the
management of VMs.
■■ SCO – Hitachi run book integrations for
System Center Orchestrator provide an
integrated solution for orchestrating and
provisioning the deployment and man-
agement of VMs.
Hitachi Technologies
Hitachi Compute
■■ Hitachi Compute Blade (CB) 500, a pow-
erful midrange server for mission-critical
applications, in a 6U, 8-blade system
with Intel Xeon E-5 series processors.
■■ Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, an
enterprise-class powerhouse in a 10U,
16-blade system with Intel Xeon E-5
series processors.
■■ Support on each blade for up to 256GB
memory (CB 500) or 384GB memory
(CB 2000) and 162Gb/sec of I/O
throughput.
■■ Blade-symmetric-multiprocessor inter-
connect technology to scale compute
resources out and up.
Hitachi Storage
■■ Options for Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform and Hitachi Unified Storage VM.
■■ Ability to manage up to 5 million logical
objects and 255PB of virtualized capacity.
4-8-Server Configuration 16-Server Configuration*
Hitachi Compute Blade Hitachi Compute Blade 500
■■ 4-8 blades [2-6 for virtual machine (VM) guests]
■■ Xeon processor, 16 cores per blade
■■ 192GB RAM standard
■■ Internal gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel
(FC) switching
■■ Windows®
2012 data center edition
Optional
256GB RAM per blade
2 Hitachi Compute Blade 2000
■■ 16 blades (14 for VM guests)
■■ Xeon processor, 16 cores per blade
■■ 192GB RAM standard
■■ Internal GbE and FC switching
■■ Windows 2012 data center edition
Optional
512GB RAM per blade
Hitachi Storage Hitachi Unified Storage VM
■■ 16GB cache
■■ 8 x 8Gb/sec FC
■■ 4 x 1Gb/sec iSCSI
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
■■ 256GB cache
■■ 8 x 8Gb/sec FC
■■ 10Gb iSCSI (FC over Ethernet optional)
Hitachi Network Internal to Hitachi Compute Blade 500 chassis
■■ 4 x 1 or 10Gb/sec LAN switch modules
■■ 2 x 8Gb/sec FC switch modules
Internal to Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 chassis
(per chassis)
■■ 4 x 1 or 10Gb/sec LAN switch modules
■■ 2 x 8Gb/sec FC switch modules
Virtual Machines (VMs) Supported Scales from 65 to 750 VMs Scales from 450 to 1800 VMs; can scale to over
12,000 VMs when using additional compute and
storage
■■ Agentless technologies to manage large
storage resources and deployments.
■■ Integrated, automated and hardware-based
front-to-back I/O load balancing.
For More Information
For more information regarding Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Select for
Microsoft Private Cloud, please visit:
■■ http://www.hds.com/solutions/
infrastructure/microsoft-cloud-deployments/
■■ http://www.microsoft.com/privatecloud
*This is a 3-rack+ solution that requires on-site configuration and deployment services and is not available as a pre-configured option from Hitachi distribution centers.

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