Power and protect your virtualized infrastructure with cloudlike agility – HPE SimpliVity

Complete Hyperconvergence with integrated compute, storage, and virtualization – enabling advanced data services for data efficiency, data protection, and VM-centric management and mobility

HPE is recognized in the new 2018 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. According to Gartner, “The desire for increased simplicity, efficiency and agility, combined with hybrid deployments and infrastructure refresh cycles, is driving enterprises toward hyperconverged infrastructure consolidation.” ¹

Modern IT leaders face a dilemma. The cost and complexity of traditional IT leaves few resources to focus on transformative projects and innovation – let alone a worry-free environment. The IT teams across organizations are faced with bandwidth challenges, unable to focus on more strategic projects. On top of this, need for reliable storage efficiency and quick back-ups are making the situation even more complex.

Key Challenges

• Significant upgrade requirements: Organizations today are facing major upgrade challenges owing to a variety of reasons – reaching the maximum capacity of storage system, facing end-of-life support from the vendor etc.
• Increased expenditure on professional services: Organizations have high dependence on professional services to help manage, configure, or optimize storage environments. In addition, backup administrators are spending a lot of time verifying completed backups and resolving any anomalies.
• Increased number of VDI users being deployed: Organizations are using VDI to manage multiple scenarios – quickly standardize acquired organizations on their enterprise applications, deploy both enterprise and desktop applications to a diverse set of users who provide their own desktop and mobile devices etc.

And while public cloud promises greater speed and agility, going all-in on cloud isn’t possible for business-critical workloads where performance, protection, privacy, and control are paramount. If you’re struggling to achieve the agility and economics of the cloud with enterprise-grade performance and protection, HPE SimpliVity is the answer.

HPE SimpliVity is an all-flash, pre-integrated, hyperconverged building block which can scale to 96 nodes per federation and dramatically simplify IT by combining all hyperconverged infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads – including VM-centric management and mobility, data protection and guaranteed data efficiency. HPE SimpliVity is available on two different platforms: the HPE ProLiant DL380 Server (VMware or Hyper-V enabled) OR the HPE SimpliVity 2600 – a new platform that utilizes software optimization for deduplication and compression and is ideal for space constrained IT environments which require high density nodes.

HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure represents a significant improvement over early forms of convergence and hyperconvergence, changing existing infrastructure paradigms in three ways: data efficiency, built-in data protection, and global unified management. All IT components are combined in a single shared pool of commodity x86 resources. This enables a scalable, modular building-block approach that not only controls up front capital investment but also reduces OpEx. The modularity of HPE SimpliVity enables high scaling in small server/storage increments. All resources and workloads contained in the collective federation are managed centrally.

• Data Efficiency: A new data architecture deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes all data at inception, inline, with no impact to performance. This is done through the HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card, which is a HPE SimpliVity specially designed PCIe card. Data is handled at a fine grain of 4KB-8KB once and forever, across all phases of the data lifecycle, tiers within the system (DRAM, flash/SSD, and HDD), data centers, and geographies. Median data efficiency in deployed environments has been 40:1, with one-third of HPE SimpliVity customers realizing data efficiencies of 100:1 or higher.
• Built-in Data Protection: The solution provides fully integrated local and remote backups at the VM level. Remote backups, to another site or to the cloud, can occur in ten-minute RPO intervals. Given the data efficiency capabilities of the platform, the solution provides instant VM recoverability. Each backup is a full logical backup with no need to manage snaps or delta copies of the data.
• Global Federated Architecture: An intelligent network of collaborative systems provides scale-out capabilities with VM-centric global management through a single unified interface for the entire global infrastructure. This feature enables a single administrator to manage all data centers and branch offices located anywhere globally, while giving visibility and control to take action on a per-VM basis.

Key benefits of SimpliVity

Fast: Innovative VM-centric management and mobility speed deployment and application performance

• Rapidly deploy and scale hyperconverged building blocks to meet changing demands
• Manage VM environments quickly and easily using the intuitive and familiar VMware vCenter® or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager interface
• View all data centers and edge computing environments on a single interface within your virtual environment
• Manage resources in a federated pool and seamlessly move data across sites
• Deliver 91% increase in time to spend on innovation and new projects³
• Achieve dramatic application performance improvement for 88% of customers⁴

Source: Based on Research by TechValidate

Powerful and efficient: All IT infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads plus increased storage efficiency

• Mitigate data loss and ransomware risk with the highest levels of resiliency, built-in resilience, backup, and disaster recovery (DR)
• Simplify and accelerate DR and provide VM protection across primary and secondary sites with integrated and automated HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
• 60 seconds or less (on average) to back up or recover a 1 TB VM⁵

Source: Based on Research by TechValidate

Multicloud: Transform your VM environment into an enterprise cloud

• Deliver cloud-like speed, operations, and economics across all your private clouds
• Deploy applications and manage VMs quickly and easily across your entire environment

Source: Based on Research by TechValidate

HPE SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure offers distinct advantages over more conventional infrastructure choices by delivering next-generation IT infrastructure that delivers improved application performance; faster and more reliable data protection; global management across distributed environments from a central console; and ease of scale to meet growth demands – all while dramatically reducing costs.

¹ Gartner Inc., Critical Capabilities for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, 28 November 2018, ID G00353218
² Login VSI is the de facto IT-industry standard in VDI performance load testing and benchmarking
³ IDC August 2018 https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/resources/integrated-systems/simplivity-customer-interviews.html
⁴ TechValidate 2017 https://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/HPEHybridITSolutions/charts/57D-FAC-AFC
⁵ HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee - https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/simplivity.html

Source: HPE