Singapore – Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., specialising in data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management, has introduced a new solution that combines Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One).
The integrated offering is designed to help enterprises reduce dependence on proprietary hypervisors, modernise legacy virtualisation systems, and create a unified hybrid cloud framework that enhances performance and operational resilience.
The launch comes as organisations face rising virtualisation licensing costs, reduced flexibility, and increasing pressure to update ageing environments. To address these issues, the new Hitachi Vantara platform incorporates Red Hat OpenShift, including its Virtualisation feature, together with a pre-validated reference architecture and migration tools to simplify transitions from older systems.
Dan McConnell, senior vice president of product management and enterprise infrastructure at Hitachi Vantara, mentioned that organisations across many industries and searching for ways to modernise IT infrastructures while avoiding vendor lock-in and controlling costs.
“By combining Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation with our VSP Once infrastructure, we’re enabling customers to simplify integration, reduce complexity, and accelerate application delivery on a modern hybrid cloud foundation,” Dan explained.
VSP One provides multi-site resilience and automated failover capabilities that help sustain operations during disruptions. The solution also enables virtual machines and containers to run on the same infrastructure, avoiding duplication of resources and reducing associated hardware, licensing, and operational costs.
The platform also consolidates data management across block, file, and object storage, providing consistent access and visibility across on-premises and cloud environments. The joint solution includes a reference architecture built for high availability using stretched Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
It employs Hitachi VSP One Block, global active device (GAD) technology—supporting active data access between multiple sites—and enhanced CSI drivers to enable disaster recovery, workload mobility, and continuous service availability.
The overall design of the unified and integrated platform is to streamline deployment, enhance scalability, and optimise resource utilisation. By enabling virtual machines and containers to operate on a single platform based on open-source technologies, enterprises can achieve greater flexibility while reducing dependency on proprietary vendors.
Stefanie Chiras, PhD and senior vice president of partner ecosystem success at Red Hat, shared it is critical for enterprises to migrate and modernise their systems without disruption.
“Together with Hitachi Vantara’s powerful infrastructure, we are enabling customers to reduce costs, consolidate operations, and build more resilient, cloud-native infrastructure that is ready for what’s next,” Stefanle commented.
Pre-validated configurations and built-in storage integration also simplify and accelerate the rollout of new workloads, while dynamic storage scaling allows capacity adjustments without over-provisioning.
This announcement marks the latest stage in the collaboration between Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat. Earlier in the year, the companies introduced updates to the Red Hat OpenShift Migration Toolkit for Virtualisation, which now includes a storage offload capability for cold migrations powered by VSP One.
This function transfers the data-copying process from the server to the storage array, minimising downtime and improving migration efficiency. Hitachi Vantara contributed significantly to this feature’s development and was among the first to release the offload driver in technology preview.
