Overview
Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One software defined storage block delivers an agile, scalable, performant and cost-effective solution to access, store, and manage data across a hybrid cloud environment.
Architected on EC2 instances, our patented Polyphase Erasure Coding removes barriers to scalability and maximizes performance and delivers on our legendary RAS capabilities, with no single point of failure.
Powered by the Software Virtualization Operating System and managed by Ops Center Administrator, you experience the same common storage interface for proactive and predictive decision making.
Highlights
- Designed for Resilience - Industry leading double protection against node failures and rebuild times. Protect data without storing it twice, With 99.999% data availability.
- Eliminate IO Bottlenecks IO processing is load shared among the EC2 instances with automatic rebuild and rebalancing of workloads across the cluster. Built in AI manages performance hotspots and data layout.
- Infrastructure Scalability - Scale 3 EC2 instances to 18 nodes with 1.9 PB of capacity. Compression requires R6i.8xlarge EC2 instances with 256GB of memory. Replicate Block data to the cloud from VSP 5200/5600 and VSP One Block 24/26/28.
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VSP One SDS Block Storage BYOL CFT - MultiAZ
The CloudFormation template creates the roles, policies, security groups, and instance parameters
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
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Usage instructions
- Register your License Key before using this product. Link: https://docs.hitachivantara.com/r/en-us/virtual-storage-platform-one-sds-block/1.1 Subscribe to this Software and complete the Configure Steps
- Fulfillment Option: “Hitachi VSP One SDS Block Storage BYOL CFT “
- Version: 1.16
- Subscribe to software to configure and deploy.
- Launch the GURU sizing tool and complete the sizing questions to configure your deployment environment. NOTE: Compression requires an EC2 instance with 256 GB of memory (r6i.8xlarge default EC2 instance).
- Link: https://guru.hitachivantara.com/ and select “Software Defined”
- Complete the Setup & Config Guide Setup Procedures.
- Link: https://docs.hitachivantara.com/r/en-us/virtual-storage-platform-one-sds-block/1.16.x/mk-24vsp1sds008/setup-procedure
- Identify if the system configuration is utilizing Single-AZ or Multi-AZ and follow corresponding steps in the Setup & Config Guide. (Install Demo: https://youtu.be/TLupas8hkPA )
- To enable embedded encryption for SDS Cloud (pool encryption), please reach out to https://support.hitachivantara.com/en/contact-support.html for obtaining an encryption key.
- Use a Controller node.
- See “Configuring a Controller Node” Link: https://docs.hitachivantara.com/r/en-us/virtual-storage-platform-one-sds-block/1.16.x/mk-24vsp1sds008/setup-procedure/configuring-a-controller-node
- Change the default Admin Password after successful deployment.
- Initialize the storage pool.
- Follow the steps to Register the Service ID of the Storage Cluster.
- BYOL Customers must have a License Agreement with Hitachi.
- To purchase a License, if your AWS account is not located in Japan, contact Hitachi Sales at the following link https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-in/company/contact.html ; For customers using AWS account located in Japan, contact Hitachi Sales at the following link https://www8.hitachi.co.jp/inquiry/hitachivantara/storage-solutions/form.jsp
- Add the following note in the Additional Information Box: "REQUEST TO PURCHASE VSP One SDS Block License."
- 5.x/mk-24vsp1sds002/getting-started/registering-a-license
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Hitachi Vantara supports VSP One SDS Block on AWS customers as per the terms of your Hitachi Software License Agreement. Hitachi Vantara Global Support Center is available 24/7. Visit the Support Website for support assistance. For any business inquiries, please contact your Hitachi Vantara Sales Representative. Please Contact Hitachi For Support
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