NoSQL is having a moment! Discover what HPE Storage products can do for NoSQL databases

[StorageExperts]

Watch and learn how HPE Storage products – specifically Zerto and the HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus storage system – can deliver outstanding solutions for NoSQL workloads.

-By Kevin McNally, Senior Systems Engineer, HPE Storage Solutions Engineering

NoSQL is the new buzzword in the database world, even though a good many NoSQL databases have been around for a while. Have you been kicking the tires on one of these DBs, maybe imagining how you could deploy it in your environment? Have you already got one or two up and running? If you haven’t at least taken a look at what NoSQL has to offer, now’s the time. 

Some of the biggest names in tech have developed NoSQL databases to handle specific needs that traditional relational databases weren’t able to manage, including Amazon, Google, and Yahoo, to name a few. Flexibility, simplicity, and emphasis on query speed is what’s driven some of the big players in RDB to incorporate some of these features into their own offerings. So you may actually be running some NoSQL without even knowing it!

Ready to learn about HPE Storage products for NoSQL workloads?

I’m here to share with you four new videos focused on solutions for NoSQL users. Three videos show how the Zerto IT Resilience Platform can be leveraged to help manage a Cassandra cluster in a hypervisor environment. I’m also sharing a video for Redis users that shows how deploying a Redis on Flash configuration on the HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus system can have a dramatic impact on performance in an RoF scenario. Let’s take a quick look at each – and you can then watch the videos right here.

The continuous data protection (CDP) architecture from Zerto simplifies protection of hypervisor-driven environments by combining replication, automation, and recovery orchestration into one easy-to-manage interface. Here’s you’ll discover how HPE takes advantage of this architecture to handle some of the most important management tasks for Cassandra DBAs with capabilities that go way beyond what is natively available with the application.

Cassandra Disaster Recovery with Zerto

In the first video in the series, see how Zerto can be used in place of and in concert with native Cassandra data protection tools. When an object within a Cassandra database needs restoring, such as a table or an object within that table, the native tools do a great job of recovery without interruption. However, when you’re talking full-on disaster recovery like a site loss that requires a failover, the Zerto platform is much better positioned to reposition the database nodes to the new site in a matter of seconds because of its continuous replication capability. You’ll also see how Zerto can provide comprehensive protection and failover capability at the node level, while still utilizing the native Cassandra tools for the occasional “oops.”

Cloning Cassandra with Zerto

In the second video in the series, you’ll learn how Zerto can be used to create a test/dev copy of an entire Cassandra cluster without any impact to the production environment. If you need to take a quick look at a database copy, Zerto offers its “test failover” feature that can quickly spin up a point-in-time copy of the cluster and then spin it back down, all from within the Zerto web interface. If a longer-term test/dev copy is needed, the database can be cloned with Zerto, creating a fully functional cluster copy to check a bug fix or run some performance tests to justify a config change. 

Migrating Cassandra with Zerto

The third and final video in the Zerto series discusses how the Zerto CDP can help facilitate a migration of a Cassandra cluster to a new hypervisor host or even to a new company site. Now, it’s true that the hypervisors offer similar functionality, but here you’ll see how with Zerto, these migrations can be done much quicker and with significantly less overhead – all while the Cassandra database remains online.

Redis on Flash with HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus

Finally, I’ll share one last video to switch gears and talk about Redis. Traditionally, Redis has been a true all-in-memory database. In fact, the database wasn’t allowed to grow larger than the available RAM on the nodes to ensure this. Now however, Redis users can grow beyond their RAM limits with the Redis on Flash feature, which provides a storage tier on NVMe drives for less-accessed data. In our video, we show results of some benchmark testing where we’ve deployed an RoF cluster on the Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus platform. Taking advantage of the massive processing power and NVMe footprint that the Gen10 Plus system provides, Redis users can see significant performance improvements over what is typically expected in Redis benchmark tests.

I hope you’ll check out these videos. Please look forward to more NoSQL workload solutions from HPE Storage.

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Kevin McNally, Senior Systems Engineer, HPE Storage Solutions Engineering

Kevin has been a contributor with HPE Storage Technical Marketing and Solutions Engineering for over a decade and has been with Compaq/HP/HPE for over 20 years. His current focus is on NoSQL databases and how to best align HPE Storage products to the specialized needs of NoSQL customers.

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