HPE: Advancements to SimpliVity HCI Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced advancements to SimpliVity, the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, ushering in a new gen of HCI powered with AI to simplify VM management and free IT staff to focus on innovation.

Building upon its software-defined architecture, SimpliVity is enhancing its customer experience with the firm’s InfoSight, one-click cluster upgrades, and the integration of StoreOnce.

Enterprises are under relentless pressure to streamline operations and accelerate innovation, but in order to achieve this agility, they require an intelligent underlying architecture for virtualized environments that automatically speeds time to market and eliminates complexity. While HCI inherently accelerates service delivery and resource efficiency, traditional HCI offerings still require IT to react to unexpected disruptions and application delays, and make tradeoffs as enterprises scale their environments. SimpliVity goes beyond software-defined, ushering in AI-driven infrastructure, infusing AI to transform IT operations by predicting and preventing issues.

“The future of HCI is AI-driven, and HPE has the most advanced intelligence” said McLeod Glass, VP and GM, SimpliVity and composable software. “HCI makes life easy for enterprises, but unresolved complexities still occur. HPE has rethought HCI with HPE InfoSight at the heart. This global intelligence is truly a game changer for customers as they shift from first-gen HCI to intelligent HCI with HPE.“

“The extra efficiency that HPE InfoSight brings to HPE SimpliVity is awesome,” states Warwick Brown, lead, infrastructure architecture and security, Carlisle Homes Pty Ltd, “InfoSight predicts and reports on metrics that my team cares about – where capacity is being used in clusters, hosts, even at the VM level, and when we might run out of space. That saves us lots of time.”

SimpliVity was founded to create an experience for VM administrators through automation and efficiency. Over the past several years, it has helped thousands of customers worldwide simplify and optimize their infrastructure and eliminate waste. With these announcements, SimpliVity is enabling a new experience for its customers.

Intelligently simple
SimpliVity makes it simple for any VM administrator to deploy, manage, scale, and upgrade their infrastructure. As an all-in-one system, it eliminates more infrastructure and management silos than its competitors. It intelligently self-manages, performance, and resiliency without the need for manual tuning or configuration tradeoffs.

StoreOnce

Advancements :

SimpliVity include:

First release of InfoSight for SimpliVity, enabling customers to gain predictive resource planning that takes the guesswork out of managing capacity. It provides customers visibility and analytics into detailed system, performance, and capacity utilization insights, along with support automation with automatic alerts and signature detection into complex problems.
One-click cluster upgrades for SimpliVity enable a full-stack software upgrade that simplifies and removes risk. Customers now have the ability to upgrade firmware, hypervisor, and the software across the nodes in a SimpliVity cluster in one click, delivering confidence to simply, and non-disruptively perform upgrades across sites.

“I love the new InfoSight technology available on SimpliVity,” said Gerhardt Kruger, senior virtualization and HCI engineer, King Price Insurance Company Ltd. “InfoSight is basically AI that is looking after my environment when I’m not. When InfoSight logs a call and is able to provide predictive support – that saves us time and helps my team focus on other things in the business.”

Efficient
SimpliVity is efficient, combining compute, storage, and networking with powerful built-in backup and recovery, delivering consolidation and cost savings. It has industry-leading data efficiency with 90% storage capacity savings across primary VMs and backups. These savings are guaranteed with the SimpliVity HyperGuarantee. It deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes all data inline, globally, enabling customers to save on expensive capacity resources, and enabling VM mobility.

Modernized data protection with StoreOnce integration.
As SimpliVity is accelerating into more enterprises, customers are looking to continually improve their data protection strategy. The company is announcing integration with StoreOnce for SimpliVity, enabling enhanced protection and data mobility across the firm’s storage. StoreOnce integration with SimpliVity enables an app-aware data protection solution with rapid recovery and policy-based automation for simple management and cost-effectiveness. This solution complements the SimpliVity built-in backup and recovery capability for long-term retention and compliance.

Edge optimized
SimpliVity customers gain space-optimized, HCI for multi-site deployments, enabling VMs to benefit from performance, efficiency and resiliency in the smallest possible footprint. For edge sites, zero administration is enabled by centralized, unified management across all sites, empowering customers to seamlessly manage workloads across distributed sites where staff resources are scarce. For superior BC, customers can rapidly failover virtually any number of edge sites in event of disaster, using single click edge-to-core VM mobility and recovery. Orchestration is fast and efficient, enabling all edge workloads to be recovered quickly, minimizing business downtime.

Cloud connected
Customers gain cloud connected capability via the company’s GreenLake, with the option to consume SimpliVity as-a-Service. The firm has depth and expertise via GreenLake, offering a variety of use cases including private cloud, public cloud and backup modernization. Additionally, SimpliVity is available as an HPE Validated Design for Google Cloud’s Anthos, bringing a true hybrid cloud for containers in a consumption-based solution.

Nimble Storage dHCI

Extending HCI to business-critical applications
Announced in June 2019, tHPE expanded its HCI portfolio with the introduction of Nimble Storage dHCI, a disaggregated HCI platform built with the simplicity of HCI and the flexibility of converged. Powered by InfoSight, it enables enterprises to deploy apps faster, support demanding workloads, and optimize time and resources. Customers benefit from the flexibility to independently scale resources, and management simplicity for organizations with demanding applications, such as business-critical database and data warehouse applications.

“The system design, vCenter integration, and InfoSight support make HPE Nimble dHCI easier to manage than competitive off-the-shelf HCI configurations,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, enterprise storage, IDC. “The fact that HPE uses Nimble Storage arrays for the storage layer brings considerable benefits that are not included with traditional HCI platforms.”

Together, SimpliVity and Nimble Storage dHCI bring customers an intelligent hyperconverged experience for every VM, from general-purpose workloads, edge, and ROBO apps with SimpliVity, to performance-intensive and business-critical applications with Nimble Storage dHCI.

Availability:

InfoSight for SimpliVity is available to all SimpliVity customers and will be offered at no charge to HPE SimpliVity customers who have a current HPE service agreement.
StoreOnce for SimpliVity will be available 1H20 to customers who have the latest respective software versions of SimpliVity and StoreOnce v3.x or v4.x.
Nimble Storage dHCI is available.

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June 28, 2019 | Press Release