Simplifying Hybrid IT

with HPE Simplivity

Denmark Mercado
Solutions Engineer – HPE Simplivity
The evolution of hyperconvergence

Legacy stack Integrated systems HPE SimpliVity

Pre-integrated
storage and
server
Servers and hypervisors

Storage switch

HA shared storage

Backup and dedupe

WAN optimization
Cloud gateway

SSD array

Storage caching

Data protection apps

(backup and replication)

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Introducing the HPE SimpliVity
Powerhouse hyperconvergence

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The most complete hyperconverged solution

HPE SimpliVity 380 combines the industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution with the best-selling server
platform on the market. Designed and optimized for modern virtual environments, HPE SimpliVity delivers all IT
infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads —including compute, storage, built-in data
protection, WAN optimization and disaster recovery—in a single, scalable 2U atomic building block.

Multiple Hypervisor Support

Key business outcomes include:

– Achieve faster time to market and response times – Reduce spend on IT infrastructure and licensing
– Simplify procurement and support of IT resources – Reduce data center real estate space
– Redirect dedicated FTE’s to other initiatives – Improve availability & Achieve greater efficiency

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The Powerhouse hyperconvergence
A modern data architecture

Global VM-Centric Management

and Mobility

Guaranteed Data Efficiency

Built-in Resiliency, Backup,

and Disaster Recovery

Superior economic results

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Increase admin speed and productivity

Global VM-centric Just a few clicks to…

management and mobility

‒ Single view of all data centers and

remote office / branch offices
(ROBOs)
‒ Policy-based, VM-centric
management
‒ Right-click operations
‒ Native tool integration and REST
API for extensibility increase in time available to focus
on apps and new projects
91%

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Efficiency gains from built-in resiliency, back-up and
disaster recovery
Built-in resiliency, backup,
and disaster recovery VM Node Cluster Federation

‒ Disk-level and node-level

protection of data
VM
‒ Simple, affordable offsite data
recovery
‒ Full logical backups with near-
zero overhead
‒ Reduce RTOs and RPOs from
hours to minutes Per Virtual machine Hardware RAID High availability Site to site
High Availability Per Node Disaster recovery

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Efficiency gains from built-in resiliency, back-up and
disaster recovery
Built-in resiliency, backup,
and disaster recovery

‒ Disk-level and node-level

protection of data
‒ Simple, affordable offsite data
recovery
‒ Full logical backups with near- HPE Simplivity Federation
zero overhead
‒ Reduce RTOs and RPOs from
hours to minutes

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Efficiency gains from built-in resiliency, back-up and
disaster recovery
Built-in resiliency, backup,
and disaster recovery

‒
57% 57%
<1
Disk-level and node-level
protection of data
‒ Simple, affordable offsite data improvement in of HPE SimpliVity
recovery backup/recovery customers reduced
and DR reported by recovery times from
‒ Full logical backups with near- HPE SimpliVity days or hours to
1 Minute to
zero overhead customers minutes (TechValidate)2 Backup
‒ Reduce RTOs and RPOs from (IDC)1

hours to minutes
or Restore a
1 TB VM

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Efficiency gains from built-in resiliency, back-up and
disaster recovery
Built-in resiliency, backup, Required Recovery Time
and disaster recovery

‒ Disk-level and node-level

protection of data
‒ Simple, affordable offsite data
recovery
‒ Full logical backups with near-
zero overhead
‒ Reduce RTOs and RPOs from
hours to minutes
No Less than 15 minutes 1 hour to 2 hours to 4 hours to 6 hours to 12 hours to More than Don't know
downtime 15 minutes to less than less than 2 less than 4 less than 6 less than 24 hours 24 hours
ever 1 hour hours hours hours 12 hours

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2016. Crayon scribbles are outright guesses by the presenter.

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HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
Integrated, automated, simplified off-site disaster recovery
DR orchestration tool designed to automate the failover of VMs from a primary site to a secondary site, and
failback to the primary site when ready

– Ease of installation and configuration VM1 VM2 VM3 VM VM1 VM2 VM3 VM
√ √ √ √
– Lightweight windows executable
– Create/Modify DR plans with ease
– Portable XML based recovery plans HPE SimpliVity RapidDR

– Single vendor solution ‒ Activate recovery

‒ Power on VMs
‒ Configure resources
‒ Configure network
‒ Run custom scripts…
– RTOs reduced to minutes
– One click activation
– Prescribed execution flow
– Reduced risk
– Automated failover/failback recovery workflow

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Data efficiency improves capacity, speeds recovery

Guaranteed data efficiency

‒ Always-on deduplication and

compression 52:1
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All data at inception, globally
Guaranteed 90% capacity savings
Save 90%
across primary storage and capacity across
backup* Customers average 52:1 efficiency storage and backup
‒ Consistent, high performance with > 1/3rd surveyed achieve over 100:11 combined2
offload to HPE OmniStack
Accelerator Card

1 Reported in Forrester Total Economic Impact Study, 2017; TechValidate survey data
2 HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee applies to current HPE SimpliVity and HPE OmniStack products and the new HPE SimpliVity 380 product.

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HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform
VMs

Data Virtualization Platform

Presentation
layer

All data written/registered to virtualization platform

Data
Management
layer

Persistent
storage
Only unique data written to disk

“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform
VMs

Data Virtualization Platform

Presentation
layer

Data
Management
layer

Persistent
storage

“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform
VMs

Data Virtualization Platform

Presentation
layer

Data
Management
layer

Persistent
storage

“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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Data efficiency improves capacity, speeds recovery

Superior economic results

‒ Avoid costs for servers and legacy

Storage
‒ Avoid Software Licensing Costs Reduce
‒ Lower data center power, space,
cooling costs
‒ Lower Backup/DR Labor
‒ Reduced system upgrade
expenses
by 69%

1Reported in Forrester Total Economic Impact Study, 2017

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HPE SimpliVity simplifies infrastructure management

Other HyperConverged Vendors

+ third-party backup for operational recovery

HPE SimpliVity

+ replication and disaster recovery automation

OR

+ WAN optimization

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Independently validated usage data
Production Workloads Running On HPE SimpliVity

Microsoft SQL Server 85%

Microsoft Exchange 49%

Industry-specific applications* 49%

Microsoft SharePoint 34%

VDI 32%

Oracle 18%

E-Commerce 10%

SAP 7%

Other 22%

Notes: *e.g. 911 system, healthcare application, legal case management, CAD/CAM, etc.
Source: TechValidate TVID: A89-936-EDF 20
Top use cases for HPE SimpliVity

Data center
ROBO VDI Private cloud
consolidation

Tier-1 Data
Test/dev
applications protection

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HPE Simplivity product offering
Hardware and Software features

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HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Models

HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10

Effective Useable Effective storage
Model Useable CPU configuration Storage configuration RAID configuration
Memory capacity

XS​mall 5 x 960GB SSD​ 3 - 6 TB​ RAID 5​

Small​ 5 x 1.92TB SSD​ 6 - 12 TB​ RAID 5​

HPE Smart Memory
Latest Intel Xeon Scalable
DDR4 spanning various
Medium​ Processor Family 9 x 1.92TB SSD​ 12 - 25 TB​ RAID 6​
configurations up to
1P or 2P from 8 core to 28 core
1436 GB
Large​ 12 x 1.92TB SSD​ 20 - 40 TB​ RAID 6​

X-Large*​ 12 x 3.84TB SSD​ 40 - 80 TB​ RAID 6​

* For VMware, available in two versions, 6000-series and 4000-series except for Extra Large 4000-series
For Microsoft Hyper-V, available for 4000-series in Extra Small, Small, Medium, and Large configurations
6000-series is best for high performance, IO intensive mixed workloads
4000-series is best for typical workloads (heavy reads/lower ratio of writes) at lower cost than the 6000-series.
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HPE SimpliVity 2600
New HPE SimpliVity hardware platform plus software optimized solution
HPE SimpliVity 2600
– Based on Apollo 2600
– Provides a different HPE SimpliVity platform choice
– Provides dense solution for compute centric workloads

– 100% Software Optimized

– Software optimized offering with always-on dedupe &
compression
– First vendor to deliver consistent performance with always-on
dedupe and compression enabled by software – tested by
HPE lab and LoginVSI*

– VDI Use Case

– Architected and optimized for best VDI configuration
performance
– HPE SimpliVity makes VDI simple to implement and manage
– VMware offering

* Login VSI is the de-facto IT-industry standard in VDI performance load-testing &benchmarking.
Source: https://www.loginvsi.com/resources/benchmark-reports
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HPE SimpliVity 2600
– HPE SimpliVity 170 Server
– Minimum 2 nodes per chassis

– Maximum 4 nodes per chassis

– HPE SimpliVity 190 Server

– 2 nodes per chassis

– Optional GPU or NIC supported

Effective Storage Effective storage

Chassis Node CPU configuration RAID configuration
Memory configuration capacity
1-2P Intel Xeon 8-14, Multi-tier
HPE SimpliVity 170 256–726 GB 6 x 1.92 TB SSD 7-15 TB
16-22 Cores (RAID 1+0 + RAID 5)
HPE SimpliVity 2600
2P Intel Xeon Multi-tier
HPE SimpliVity 190 256–726 GB 6 x 1.92 TB SSD 7-15 TB
8-22 Cores (RAID 1+0 + RAID 5)

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HPE Proactive Care for HPE Simplivity
Achieve higher levels of self-sufficiency
Get the knowledge you need quickly Usage
Access enhanced support when you need it support

Enhanced
– Access to superior problem resolution, an enhanced call Self-solve break-fix
support support
experience and incident management
– Rapid connection to technical experts and start-to-finish case Manage your
management HPE SimpliVity
Solution
– Participate with other HPE SimpliVity users in moderated Simple
Proactive to
online forums notification enable
– Access best practice videos from support experts to help and use
manage the operation, configuration, and capacity Technical
– Get enhanced access to ask support questions for usage and expertise
operational tasks

Take control with new self-service tools to help improve efficiencies, gain knowledge when you need it,
and free up IT to deliver greater innovation and value to the business

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Power to the VM Admin
HPE SimpliVity further simplifies the VM experience delivering true hyperconvergence at scale
from data center to edge

Hyperconverge Friction-free Automation

everything scale everywhere

– Enables true – Scale that addresses – VM Admin enjoys end-to-

hyperconvergence: needs for virtual workloads end policy automation,
scale-out compute, Start small, scale linearly to visibility, intelligence
storage and networking very large deployments – Global unified
– IT Admin efficiently – Run any VM, anywhere management via familiar
controls the full stack anytime interface
– Delivers consolidation and – Do more, deliver more – Improved lifecycle
simplification with less management

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– HyperEfficient: save 90% capacity across storage and backup combined1
– HyperProtected: under 1 minute to complete a local backup or local restore of a 1 TB VM
– HyperSimple: three clicks to back up, restore, move, or clone a VM from a single console2
– HyperManageable: under 1 minute to create or update backup policies for 1000s of VMs across dozens
of sites
– HyperAvailable: add or replace HPE SimpliVity systems with zero downtime for local or remote sites3
– Zero downtime to local or remote HPE SimpliVity backups
– Zero reconfiguration of HPE SimpliVity backup policies for local or remote sites
– Zero re-entry of IP addresses in remote sites
1 HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee applies to current HPE SimpliVity 380 products running V3.6.2 or greater.
2 Assumes that the user is starting from the VMware® vCenter™ interface at the action menu for the selected object (VM or VM backup) or the Microsoft Hyper-V SCVMM interface at the action
menu for the selected object. Changing default destinations are not counted in the three clicks.
3 Assumes a healthy cluster of two or more nodes. This only covers storage resources. Customer must ensure proper CPU and memory resources are available for failover.

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Thank you
Denmark Mercado
Solutions Engineer – HPE Simplivity
[email protected]