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 platform
and how we ensure your data is protected.
In this example, we have got our federation, our single management zone
with multiple different locations within that all know how to communicate
with each other automatically, as well as how to send data between them
in the most efficient way.
This particular location, we have two nodes that gives us a highly available configuration.
So when we write a virtual machine, for example, here this could be our SQL virtual machine,
we will write a complete copy of that virtual machine on another node within that cluster.
That way, if for any reason there is an issue with this particular node,
we can bring that data up automatically.
We also have data protection and recovery capabilities built in a standard to our SimpliVity environment.
so we can protect at hypervirtual machine level our workloads running on the platform
We can take a backup of a virtual machine,
which gives us a completely full and independent backup but does not store any data
other than the changes. So taking a backup is a near instant operation,
as is restoring that virtual machine, if there is an issue.
We can do that restore from within the Hypervisor management.
So from within the center in a VMware environment or system center virtual machine manager
within a Microsoft Hyper-V environment, and it is just a right click recover operation
to either recover that entire virtual machine
or to recover files or folders from within that virtual machine.
We also have the ability to send those backups to any other location within that SimpliVity federation.
So down here we have another location.
This could be a DR site, for example, with just a single node.
But we have the ability to use that same backup technology
to send a backup of that data over here as well.
It will be in its most efficient form, so we will only send the data that is needed down here.
Even if we already have similar virtual machines, we will just send the data that is missing
to make up the view of this data for this particular virtual machine.
We are always using our capacity efficiency technology throughout.
So again, we have the ability to do right click restore operation down here
or we have the ability to build a complete disaster recovery plan using our software called RapidDR.
This is licensed in packs of virtual machines for those virtual machines that we wish to protect.
And it allows us to build a recovery plan to determine the order we want to bring up those virtual machines
and make any changes like changing the network
or changing the domain controller and services that we need to connect to,
before we can bring up those workloads.
It gives us the ability to test that recovery capability before there is an issue.
So bring everything up in a nice, isolated environment, or if there is an issue, we have got a single
operation to then initiate that recovery and bring up all of those workloads,
significantly simplifying recovery and reducing the time to recover that environment.
So that is how we can protect those virtual machines against corruption, against malware,
and we have the ability to recover those very easily,
all driven by the virtualization administrator inside the Hypervisor management tool.
There is no separate environment required to manage that recovery.
We also ensure that that data is protected at every level within that environment as well.
So, for example, if we lose a drive, there is no impact to the system, everything carries on running.
In our largest storage configurations, we can even suffer two drive failures within a node
without any impact to availability.
We can have exactly the same happen across the entire environment.
So if for any reason, we are having a particularly bad day, an unlucky day,
we can lose a drive in this node.
At the same time, we could lose another drive in that node.
If we had more nodes within that cluster, we could tolerate drive failures
in all of those nodes at the same time without any impact.
If, for any reason, we suffer multiple failures or an entire node is offline for any reason,
we will then use high availability technologies to automatically restart any virtual machines
that were running on that failed node.
Everything that was running on the rest of the environment continues to run as normal,
All of our data is protected. All of those backup points of our data are also protected.
If there is an issue or a failure, we still have all of those backups that we can always recover from as well.
Within our SimpliVity environment, we have the ability to protect your data and recover that.
But we can also integrate with other backup solutions,
if you need to send that data off to other devices or other locations
or have a different form of application integration.
What we have also just recently announced is the ability to send those backups
directly from our SimpliVity nodes to our StoreOnce backup device.
So, for example, down here we can have our StoreOnce backup appliance
and we can send a copy of that backup data over here
and store this for longer term retention.
We even have the ability to then send that data on to our StoreOnce cloud bank service
and store that data in the cloud as well.
Okay, so thank you very much for your time. I hope that is being useful.
And if you would like any more information on our SimpliVity hyperconverged platforms,
please visit www.hpe.com/SimpliVity.
Thank you.