Hi there. I am Alex Wilson. I am a Solutions Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
And today I would like to talk to you about our SimpliVity hyperconverged technology
and how we deliver always-on capacity efficiency.
But how we also see that as a performance benefit within that environment as well.
So our SimpliVity technology has been designed with capacity efficiency built in from the start.
It is not a technology that is being added on later, retrofitted,
it is actually built deep into the platform.
We use it right away throughout the entire data life cycle.
So here we have our SimpliVity node. When we put our virtual machines on there
and we write our data, we see those blocks of data coming in.
Now those are automatically going to go through our deduping compression engine
and any savings we can make, we will do that.
So if we have already seen some of that data, if we have got some common operating system data,
application data, we don't need to write that, so we may only see a fewer number of writes
coming down and actually sitting on those drives underneath.
So, of course, we get the capacity benefit by not writing as much data down here,
but for us, that is also a performance benefit.
So, instead of having to write all of these blocks of data, we are only writing the ones
that we actually need to, down here. That means there is actually more performance
available to run those virtual machines, to run the workload.
In most other systems, deduping compression are available as options, but there is
something that need to be enabled, and you need to determine whether the most
important thing to you is performance or capacity efficiency.
If you enable the capacity efficiency, you actually take a drop in performance.
Here within our environment, we actually don't need to make that choice.
We get the best performance by using this capacity efficiency technology,
so we get the capacity efficiency that we need but we also see a performance benefit.
As there is less work being undertaken, more work is available to actually run those virtual machines
and that applies throughout the entire life cycle of that virtual machine
and every single operation that we perform.
So if we take a backup of that virtual machine again, we are using this efficiency technology automatically.
We are not going to write any blocks of data we already have. We are only going to store
the changes that are made between those different backup points in time.
If we need to recover that data for any reason, again, we are only recovering to
the most recent view of that data.
We don't need to read lots of blocks of data, we just need to restore that virtual machine pointer,
bring it back online, and it is ready to go.
So taking a backup or performing a recovery happens near instantly within our environment.
You can also use that same technology to send that data to another location
within our SimpliVity federation, our single management zone,
and that will automatically be done with that data efficiency.
So we will only send the unique blocks of data needed down here as well.
There is no need for additional technology to try and make that data as small as possible,
to use that limited amount of bandwidth, it is already in its most efficient form.
We also use that efficiency technology when we perform operations like a clone.
So if we clone a virtual machine, we don't need to read any of this data.
We know we have already got that data.
We just create a new virtual machine pointer
or connect it up to either vCenter or System Center virtual machine manager, and it is ready to go.
So that clone happens within a few seconds.
We also have the ability to efficiently move data between these different sites.
So if we have recovered our virtual machine down here in the event of a disaster recovery,
it has been running for a while, we have the ability to move that virtual machine back up here
and again only send those changes that have occurred,
so being very efficient in terms of the amount of data that we need to transmit.
We don't need to send the entire virtual machine.
I hope that is being useful and informative.
If you like any more information on our SimpliVity hyperconverged technologies,
please visit www.hpe.com/SimpliVity. Thank you.