Hitachi Command Suite Reviews & Insights

Hitachi Command Suite is used throughout the hospital organization, however, few employees are aware of its use as it is primarily a back-facing software for managing server space. It allows users and corporations to see the amount of space/power/energy being used in various networks and storage sites. On an individual level, this software can help employees manage their data, however, more useful is at a larger scope, where the organization can monitor its digital resources.

Even as a non-IT employee, this software helps me to see how I am using the organization's digital resources. At a larger scale, where Hitachi Command Suite excels, this software allows an organization to monitor and analyze their resources and how employees and customers are utilizing them. I find this is best used when dealing with sensitive information (such as medical records), or with consumer-facing content.

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.

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.