Hitachi GAD Demo
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GAD OVERVIEW
HA
HCS DRS
Active HA/DRS across metro distances SVOS GAD
vMotion and DC migration
Active-Active processing of shared Site1 Site2
data
Business continuity of virtualized
critical apps
Enabling Private cloud across metro
distances
Quorum
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GAD – Virtual Storage Machine
Virtualized Storage System
VMware ESX
‒ Virtual Storage Machine (VSM): In
system storage controller spanning 2
VSP G1000
‒ Global Active Device (GAD): Logical
SVOS GAD volume with Active-Active processing
of Read/Write IOs at both sites
Storage Virtual Operating
System
Quorum device – Determine storage HA
owner in case of failure
SVOS
‒ Any storage system can be used
Storage Virtual Operating including 3rd party virtualized storage
System
(HUVM)
P-VOL S-VOL
Quorum
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GAD Management Tools
HCS: Hitachi Command Suite
HCS Cluster GAD management tool
HCS (Active) HCS (Passive)
Redundant management
HDLM: Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager
GAD
SVOS SATP Plugin: Handles path failover for GAD
HDLM: SATP PSP
devices
PSP Plugin: Provides additional round robin
multipath load balancing
‒ Extended Round Robin
‒ Extended least IO
‒ Extended lead blocks
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GAD Use Cases
Path/Storage Failover vMotion/Migration
ESX switches paths to alternate site path Read/Write IO switches to local site’s path
VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX
+HDLM +HDLM +HDLM +HDLM
HCS
Active
Quorum Quorum
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