Why hpe simplivity?

The HPE SimpliVity 380 combines x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a single hyperconverged system with advanced functionality.

Simplifies management and delivers outstanding cost efficiency and agility

Increased visibility and control of the entire virtualized environment via unified management.

Delivers orchestrated, simultaneous deployment and upgrades so you can deploy more simply and respond to business needs faster.

Unify virtual machines and infrastructure tasks to reduce virtual machine (VM) sprawl and over-provisioning.

The HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers an all-flash solution delivering predictable and near linear performance at near-wire speeds while reducing latency.

Hardware driven in-line deduplication, compression, and optimization helps reduce I/O and network traffic while dramatically shrinking backup window requirements.

The HPE SimpliVity 380 can easily expand or contract configurations as your needs change.

Each node supports a large number of fully protected virtual machines (VMs).

A networked collection of nodes at both local and remote sites are managed as a single entity.

Flexibility to expand node storage and add a second CPU (with additional memory) to 1P nodes within the field.

Federations scale up to 96 nodes. Heterogenous federation support (clusters of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9/Gen10 and legacy HPE SimpliVity can be federated with clusters of HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 and SimpliVity 2600 Gen10).

The HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers always-on deduplication and compression to significantly reduce capacity utilization.

Built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery for enterprise-grade data protection.

Policy-based, virtual machine (VM) centric management to streamline operations.

HPE SimpliVity RapidDR is a Disaster Recovery(DR) orchestration tool for HPE SimpliVity platforms to simplify, automate, and accelerate offsite DR for rapid recovery of applications.

Optional Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) support.

For HPE SimpliVity nodes HPE InfoSight provides system details at the federation, cluster, and host level for historic capacity utilization, trends, resource consumption and prediction. Alleviates support issues and reduces operational expenses with automated wellness alerts and case creation. Provides a unified view of HPE SimpliVity assets such as Datastore, VM, Backups, Capacity, and IOPS.

Combines x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a single hyperconverged system. Simplifies management and delivers great cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control.

The all-flash solution provides predictable and linear performance at near‑wire speeds with reduced latency. Hardware-assisted inline deduplication, compression, and optimization helps minimize I/O and network traffic, improving performance while delivering great storage and bandwidth efficiency.

Easily expand or shrink configurations as your needs change. Each node supports a large number of fully protected virtual machines (VMs), with the networked collection of nodes at both local and remote sites managed as a single entity.

Enables all actions, policies, and management at the VM level. Global unified management and integration with established administrative systems streamline operations and improve IT agility.

HPE SimpliVity tolerates simultaneous drive failures without data loss, and built-in data protection and disaster recovery features help keep data safe.

HPE SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprises SimpliVity is an integrated, all-embracing system that has compute, storage, networking, and other data center services, all in a hyperconverged stack. It is the ideal solution for organizations to refresh the key components of their on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid cloud infrastructure as it provides smooth VM management, automation, application performance, and much more.

Reasons you should check out HPE SimpliVity

HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) delivers an enterprise-level performance, protection, and resiliency that businesses require within the cloud that many have come to expect. To make it as much of a no-brainer as possible, besides the robust capabilities - they off­er one of the most thorough guarantees in the industry including data eff­iciency, protection, simplicity, management, and availability.

1.    Hyper Efficiency and Storage Management

SimpliVity comes with VM-centric backup capabilities, allowing users to achieve 90% storage capacity savings across storage and backup together, relative to other traditional solutions (think multiple hard drives, storage servers etc…).

SimpliVity uses a purpose-built OmniStack Accelerator card to globally deduplicate, compress, and optimize all data at the start globally, eliminating unnecessary data processing thus enhancing application performance.

SimpliVity helps you in managing a massive amount of data, as it delivers a whopping 40:1 storage efficiency.  Your results may be higher or lower depending on your data retention policy, how well your data can be deduplicated, and how well your data can be compressed.  Because of the global deduplication, SimpliVity significantly reduces the number of IOPS (input/output operations per second) that are needed. One user said, "a 10-terabyte server could easily push 1,000 IOPS by itself".

2.    Data Protection and Quick Backup

HPE SimpliVity HCI and its built-in backup capability takes under a minute in order to run a local backup or restoration of a 1 TB VM.  A restore from native SimpliVity backup storage is usually your best option for a fast granular restore of a VM.

In addition to the SimpliVity backup, we still recommend purchasing 3rd party backup software like Veeam so you can follow the 3-2-1 Backup rule.  3 copies of your data, on 2 different storage media, with 1 copy off line and off site.  If you get hit with a massive crypto infection, there is a change that all of your online backups may get encrypted as well.  If all of your backups are stored online, you may be unable to restore.  Another reason to keep your backups off line is hackers.  If hackers gain access to your system, they can:

This already happened to a company called VFEMail.  Regardless of your HCI infrastructure, always follow the 3-2-1 backup rule.

3. Enhanced Data Mobility and Speed

When you are using HPE SimpliVity, user interface (UI) integrates with VMware vCenter – full integration with the hypervisor, and in just three clicks you can restore, back up, clone or move a VM, all from one console.

While using the SimpliVity UI in a central location, it takes an average of less than a minute to create or update backup policies for 1000s of VMs over dozens of sites (you read that right).

Without any downtime for local or remote sites, and without disrupting existing SimpliVity backups, you can easily add or replace SimpliVity HCI systems. And you'll never have the need to reconfigure any SimpliVity and backup policies for existing sites, both remote and local, nor will you need to re-enter any IP addresses for a remote site.

Data flowing between multiple locations is complex and can't be managed easily. With SimpliVity, the connection between offsite locations and branches becomes a breeze. SimpliVity thus makes the use of a wide area network (WAN) way more efficient by replicating only unique blocks, eliminating the need to have WAN optimization tech in place.

Conclusion

The HPE SimpliVity 380 uses an abstraction layer on top of the underlying hardware resource to write the deduplicated and compressed data on the disk to create time-based copies of the data. It also helps in moving data and VMs from one system to another either locally or in the cloud. HPE SimpliVity 380 software can be easily integrated with VMware vCenter where the whole data center infrastructure can be managed using a single console.

SimpliVity, in addition to the features above, also provides centralized management that makes it easy to scale storage across several locations. Without the usual hassle of the configuration of IP addresses and controllers, you can move data from on-premises to the public cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructures.

If you’re not sure which hyperconverged system is right for your enterprise, keep reading to discover five reasons why HPE SimpliVity may be the answer you’re looking for.

HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution provides scalable resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including compute, storage and data protection capabilities—in a single device, with a unified, VM-centric administrative interface. VM centricity and mobility enable all actions, policies, and management at the VM level, while global unified management and integration with established administrative systems streamline operations and improve IT agility.

With HPE SimpliVity, your enterprise can rapidly deploy and scale hyperconverged building blocks to meet the changing demands of your organization. Not only can you deploy blocks, but with this network you can manage VM environments quickly and easily using the VMware interface.

Not only is it fast to adjust the system to fit your needs, HPE SimpliVity also allows you to quickly view all data centers and remote and branch offices within a single interface. This ability to see your data quickly allows you to manage your resources and seamlessly move data across sites to where they are needed.

Further, SimpliVity delivers peak and predictable application performance with a modern data architecture that is faster than other hyperconverged solutions currently available.

With built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery, HPE SimpliVity provides powerful data protection that reduces data loss along with lowering the risk of ransomware attacks on your enterprise. With the integrated HPE SimpliVity RapidDR, you can simplify and accelerate your disaster recovery efforts while also providing VM protection across primary and secondary sites. HPE SimpliVity also provides powerful encryption to secure even the most sensitive data, such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, with HPE Secure Encryption—a level-1 validated solution that secures your sensitive data-at-rest. You can rest easy knowing your confidential information is safely stored on a powerful system with the resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery that will keep it out of the wrong hands.

Enjoy the support and investment protection that only HPE can offer. When your enterprise deploys HPE SimpliVity, you’ll be able to reduce the number of devices in your data center by up to ten-times while also decreasing the total cost of ownership.

When it comes to your enterprise’s primary and backup storage, this hyperconverged infrastructure is able to reduce the capacity and utilization by up to ten-times with always-on deduplication and compression.

HPE SimpliVity lets you streamline your enterprise’s infrastructure, allowing you to dedicate your valuable resources on other areas within your organization.

Enterprises today seek the agility, elasticity and affordability promised by cloud computing. However, IT organizations also want the performance, reliability and resiliency of on-premises infrastructure. HPE SimpliVity delivers both. It offers organizations an affordable and flexible solution to start virtualizing their enterprise while also keeping the most sensitive data safe.

As you can see, there are many benefits to deploying a hyperconverged infrastructure, and HPE SimpliVity is a great solution to consider for your enterprise. Want to know more about how this network setup can help you reach your business goals? Contact us today to talk to one of our experts about hyperconverged infrastructure.

Next Steps: After absorbing this information, download our white paper, “The Future-Ready Data Center: Converged vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructures,” to learn how to differentiate your enterprise’s IT strategy on its path to data center modernization.