True hyperconvergence packs a powerful and efficient punch

[JanetRunberg]

With the current popularity and widespread availability of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), now is a great time to streamline your IT environment. Hyperconverged technology that’s engineered for speed and agility can simplify and turbocharge your datacenter.

HPE SimpliVity delivers extreme simplicity and efficiency

With so many hardware and software components that need to interact, there is no such thing as a simple datacenter, but there are simple IT solutions. HPE SimpliVity powered by Intel®  comprises the entire IT stack in each hyperconverged node, consolidating as many as 10 devices and apps. The compact nodes are scalable building blocks for virtualized environments, allowing IT organizations to grow their infrastructure in small increments based on business needs.

Hardware consolidation has helped drive the rapid adoption of HCI, but the real power of HPE SimpliVity is in the unique capabilities and features enabled by its software-defined architecture. 

HPE Data Virtualization Platform, the technology enabling HPE SimpliVity, masks complex integration and operational tasks from the IT administrator, simplifying the IT environment from core to edge. Because these complex tasks happen behind the scenes, an IT administrator with no specialized training can manage an entire infrastructure from a single interface.

Award-winning HPE SimpliVity is guaranteed to deliver results.*

Efficiency

• Operational efficiency increases storage capacity savings and improves application performance.
• Always-on, inline deduplication and compression only needs to happen once, when the data is first ingested (see how it works).
• Guaranteed 90% capacity savings across primary storage and backup.

Resiliency

• HPE SimpliVity tolerates simultaneous drive failures without data loss, and provides high availability with only 2 nodes.
• • Built-in data protection and disaster recovery keep data safe.
  • In a recent VDI benchmarking test, HPE SimpliVity provides continuity of virtual desktop service with no impact on the end-user experience, even during node failure.
  • Guaranteed 60-second restore of 1 TB VM.

Density

• Flexible, consolidated resource pools are cost effective building blocks for a variety of workloads.
• According to Login VSI, the HPE SimpliVity 2600 is ‘a tiny turbocharged system’ that ‘offers a great user experience.’

Simplicity

• Policy-based, global VM-centric management from a familiar interface.
• Datacenter and ROBO visibility from a single interface.
• Guaranteed 3 clicks to back up, remove, clone, or restore a VM.

That’s serious power for the VM admin, who can manage everything from a single interface. VM-centric management in the fully hyperconverged solution simplifies policies across the entire infrastructure, making data migration, backups and restores simpler and faster.

According to an IDC report, software-defined technology can deliver top-notch efficiency. The study revealed that organizations that use HPE SimpliVity gain back as much as 91 percent of their time. That kind of operational efficiency helped HPE SimpliVity win the CRN Product of the Year Award for two years in a row. HPE SimpliVity has also been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice solution in 2019.

For more information about how HCI works, download the Gorilla Guide to Hyperconverged Infrastructure Implementation Strategies.

Janet

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*Statistics in this blog and associated social media posts are drawn from the following whitepapers and reports:

• Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of HPE SimpliVity HCI, Aug. 2017 (69% cost savings, 10:1 reduction in datacenter footprint, backup savings of 25 hours/week, 52:1 reduction in storage requirements, 7.2 month ROI, 183% ROI over 3 years)
• IDC: Datacenters Leverage HPE SimpliVity to Drive Operational Simplicity, Improved Performance, and Other Critical Datacenter Benefits, Aug. 2018 (91% time back, 14 TB restored in 20 seconds, 94% of customers use built-in data protection, 39% less time spent on backup/recovery, 33% increase in staff productivity, 55% of customers retired 3rd party backup and/or replication, 71% of production workloads run on HPE HCI, 39% improvement in provisioning times)
• ESG Technical Validation: HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Aug. 2017 (1,000 VMs deployed in 70 minutes)
• ESG Report: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of the HPE SimpliVity 380 All-flash Hyperconverged Portfolio, Jan. 2018 (55% TCO cost savings at the edge)