In this Chalk Talk, we are going to look at HPE Alletra dHCI – HyperConverged Infrastructure without compromise.
The HCI experience has made life easier. Simple to deploy with software-defined
infrastructure abstracted. It’s simple to manage with unified management that eliminates silos.
And it’s simple to scale allowing you to start small and scale out in increments.
But there are compromises rooted in architectural design tradeoffs.
• Resiliency penalty resulting in business risk. When a node fails or needs to be taken
out of service, apps and data are impacted. • The performance penalty drives up latency
moving IO between nodes and CPU cycles are shared across data
services and apps, requiring more nodes. • And overprovisioning penalty with fixed
compute and storage scaling resulting in over-provisioned and idle resources.
How can you get the HCI experience without the
compromises? Let me introduce you to HPE Alletra dHCI – HCI without
compromise for mixed workloads at scale. • It’s intelligently simple with native,
full-stack intelligence, policy-based automation and AI-driven intelligence.
• It has absolute resiliency with over 6-nines of measured data availability and sub-ms of
low latency at consistent, high performance. • And efficiently scale - independently scale
compute and storage that reduces your need to overprovision and improves TCO.
Speaking of TCO, ESG’s economic validation for HPE dHCI shows the economic outcomes and
better TCO compared to vSAN-based HCI solutions. Pause the video to see the details but based on
121 mixed workloads, HPE Alletra dHCI delivers 2.5x cost savings compared to other vSAN-based
solutions. That’s impressive. I’ll leave a link to the report in the description.
dHCI is made to do more than traditional HCI. Here are three numbers: 10x, 4x,
and 5x. What do these mean? Compared to Dell EMC VxRail, for you, this means 10X faster
app performance, 4X more reliability for business-critical apps and mixed workloads,
as well as 5X more efficiency delivering better economic outcomes.
HPE Alletra dHCI is built for resilience and speed:
• Always-on availability with guaranteed 6 nines storage availability.
• Sum-millisecond latency, as low as 200 icroseconds data response time with hybrid flash or all-NVMe.
• Fault tolerant with no single point of failure and the ability to tolerate 3 simultaneous drive failures.
• Run with vm-centric data services like
deduplication, encryption via policy automation. • And 1-click multi-site upgrades – intelligent,
nondisruptive, full-stack lifecycle management to automate operations.
Independently scale performance and capacity sets HPE dHCI apart. The
architecture disaggregates compute and storage so you can scale servers and
storage flexibly to support your application needs. The means there’s no overprovisioning.
You can add only what you need and upgrades are transparent and nondisruptive to your
apps. HPE InfoSight tells you when and how many resources you need or how to repurpose resources.
Speaking of HPE InfoSight, it makes a huge difference in a transformed support experience.
• Predictive analytics that automate level 1 and 2 issues.
• Rapid root cause - one call support with full-stack expertise.
• And we call you, never worry about whom to call.
And the result is 4.91 out of 5 in support satisfaction
and average hold time is less than 1 minute!
Lastly, I want to mention redefining data protection with a cloud experience.
There is HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery and HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery. I have
recent videos on each of these that go deeper that you should watch. You can recovery from an event
like a ransomware attack in minutes. Recover from any disruption and protect effortlessly with these
solutions. I like easy! And since I mentioned HPE GreenLake, HPE Alletra dHCI is available via HPE
GreenLake and get all the agility benefits of the HPE GreenLake pay-as-you-go consumption model.
To learn more, go to hpe.com/storage/dHCI