Hitachi Command Suite
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hitachi Command Suite (and it's latest incarnation Hitachi Operations Manager - all part of the Hitachi Vantara Ops Center Suite) is used to provision and manage resources from multiple Hitachi Vantara storage systems. Provisioning/de-provisioning involves creating and deleting LUNs as well as mapping them to host groups for access. Management includes viewing performance criteria and even host side telemetry to ensure that performance and operations are trouble-free.
Pros
- Provisioning/Deprovisioning
- Low level Storage System configuration / management
- Management of multiple replication technologies
- Creation/Removal of specialized devices such as CMD devices
Cons
- Pool management (still best done through SVP)
- Support for tags/attributes for storage resources would be a wonderful addition
- Reporting is minimal and difficult to use.
- Capacity planning (historical baselining + projection of organic growth) is a missing feature
Return on Investment
- Provisioning is now a very easy task
- Managing replication now has an interface (as opposed to old HORCM RAIDCOM command line stuff - which is still available_
- HPA gives end to end and sparkline views of all elements in the storage path
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Dell PowerStore, Dell Compellent (discontinued), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Alletra, Dell/EMC CX4 series (Clariion), EMC VNX (Discontinued), NetApp FAS Storage Arrays, NetApp AFF C-Series and Pure Storage FlashArray
Other Software Used
Dell PowerStore, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), PowerProtect DD Series, Slack, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Ripple, Augment Code, ChatGPT, Delinea Secret Server, Jenkins, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, Google Workspace