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
Likelihood to Recommend
The new evolution of Command Suite into Hitachi Vantara Ops Center has greatly simplified working with the Hitachi Vantara Storage systems compared to previous management tooling. Use of the whole suite including Performance Analyzer makes managing the entire Hitachi storage ecosystem a full featured and more approachable task. I enjoy the completeness of the solution as well as the integration that they have begun to employ.
