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Data Protection with HPE SimpliVity, Part 2: The best disaster is one that never happens
As explained in the first blog in this series, HPE SimpliVity is designed from the ground up for simplified global management, efficiency of data, and easy data protection. And while no system on the planet can prevent a disaster, IT infrastructures can be engineered to minimize the impact to business. Since protecting data is a multidimensional problem, it is important to make sure your data is protected across a wide range of different risks. Ideally, any issues with the availability of the environment should be handled gracefully and automatically to either avoid or minimize downtime and human intervention. You cannot prevent disaster, but you can prepare Creating backups of data is great for capturing data in a single point in time for later recovery, but ensuring the availability of the data means that the hardware that stores and provides access to the data needs to be as resilient to failure as possible. HPE SimpliVity […]
How VM data is managed within an HPE SimpliVity cluster, Part 1: Data creation and storage
By Damian Erangey, Senior Systems/Software Engineer, HPE Software-Defined and Cloud Group This blog is the first in a 5-part series on VM data storage and management. Speaking with a customer recently I was asked how data, that makes up the contents of a virtual machine, is stored within an HPE SimpliVity cluster, and how this data affects overall available capacity within that cluster. This is essentially a two part question, and the first part is relatively straightforward. However, answering the second part of the question leads to the time old response “it depends!” Realistically it can only be answered by digging a little deeper into a customer’s specific environment and ensuring they have a good grasp of the HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged architecture.With that in mind, having an understanding of the architecture is beneficial for any existing or perspective HPE SimpliVity customer. And so with that in mind, I have decided to set out […]
HPE SimpliVity 2600 delivers new high-density hyperconverged solution
HPE recently announced the newest addition to their hyperconverged (HCI) portfolio — the HPE SimpliVity 2600. This new hyperconverged solution will complement the existing HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged solution and give customers a new, highly dense platform for client virtualization. The HPE SimpliVity 2600 is optimized for space-constrained deployments, offering customers a high-density virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, with twice the rack unit density of comparable offerings. This makes the HPE SimpliVity 2600 an ideal solution for any organization with limited data center space or expensive colocation sites that need dense compute with moderate storage. Additionally, the HPE SimpliVity 2600 is the first software optimized offering in HPE’s SimpliVity portfolio to provide a new foundation to expand the HPE data virtualization platform from core to edge. And, HPE SimpliVity is the first solution to deliver consistent hyperconverged performance with software enabled, always-on deduplication and compression. This capability has been tested and […]
Simplified Management – Operate HPE SimpliVity data services directly through vRealize Automation
HPE SimpliVity powered by Intel® has been rapidly increasing its market adoption. More and more IT organizations have been reaping the benefits that this hyperconverged solution provides in terms of simplicity and efficiency. Along with the rich set of data services provided by HPE SimpliVity, organizations are also investing in self-service management tools to simplify day-to-day operations. VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is one of the leading IT management tools that streamlines the delivery and administration of public, private and hybrid cloud. Using vRA, users can spin up resources without the involvement of their IT staff. As a result, IT organizations can lower operating expenses by automating several services and management tasks.
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