Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, yeah.
In this demo, we'll take a quick look at how HPE SimpliVity federations can
be managed from the vCenter. This is our HPE SimpliVity dashboard,
where you can find enough information to understand the status of your
infrastructure. You can see if your HPE SimpliVity clusters are connected to
InfoSight, which provides the artificial intelligence
and analytics for HPE SimpliVity nodes. Next, you'll see if there are any failed
backups, any VMs which are non-HA compliant. And here you can
see the total efficiency provided by a cluster. In this case, I'm actually
getting a capacity savings of up to 99.8% and space savings of close to
200TB. And this is possible because of HPE SimpliVity's
inline deduplication, which deducts, compresses and optimizes data at
inception for the life cycle of the IO. And we use the same IO and the
deduplicate data for even providing all the natively integrated data production
features.
With HPE SimpliVity, in this environment, I have two clusters a
local cluster and a remote cluster and I have two hosts in Boston and have one
single host on my San Jose cluster. Also, with HPE SimpliVity, you can now
connect external stores, whether it's a HPE StoreOnce or HPE Cloud Volumes.
So in this case, I have a Boston catalyst and a Sydney catalyst.
With our current release, we also can support a Catalyst store, which is
remotely located on the van, and the HP Cloud Volumes, which provides a
native integration with HPE SimpliVity where we can take backups all the way
to HPE Cloud Volumes backups and all the data is optimized and efficient
on the one link as well. For customers who want to manage their infrastructure
very efficiently, HPE SimpliVity provides the ability to create backup
policies. A backup policy provides the ability to create rules wherein the
rules define how often you want to take a backup. Where do you want to take the
backup and how long you want to retain the backup for so customers can easily
configure whether they want to back up locally or a remote cluster or a
StoreOnce appliance or back up to a Cloud Volumes very easily by a set of
backup rules. So once the backup policy with rules is configured. You assign
the backup policy to a datastore. So every VM coming to the trader store
automatically gets the backup policy, and VMs have the backup policy, and
the backups are all happening without ever having to worry. The good thing is,
the backup policy can always be modified if the RP requirements of the
customer changes. Let's take a quick look at how some of the other
operations can be performed through HPE SimpliVity. If a customer needs to
create a datastore, all he has to do is right click on the cluster,
All HPE SimpliVity Actions and create a datastore. With our latest release, we
provide a very unique capability wherein customers can now also create a
single-replica datastore wherein the application takes care of the HA,
and we don't maintain two copies of data within the cluster. Providing an
efficient way to store your data on your infrastructure. Now, HPE SimpliVity
provides a lot of the features that are needed for customers
to manage their infrastructure. I have a VM here, which is 500GB
in capacity. When I right click on my VM, I can perform all the basic
SimpliVity operations, such as a clone, backup, search for backups or change my
backup policy. For this demo, I'm going to clone a virtual machine. I just
provide the name of the clone,
Finish. As you can see here, the clone of this virtual machines finishes very
quickly because HPE SimpliVity optimizes the data and all it's really
doing right now is to present that we are on the presentation layer and the
VM is readily available here. We can power on the VM
and start leveraging this VM for any operations. One of the great things for
SimpliVity is we can clone a VM, a 1TB VM, in less than 60 seconds.
You can also take a local backup and also restore from a local backup in
less than 60 seconds. It's all powered by a data virtualization platform,
which is very powerful as well as very efficient. Now, let's take a couple of
backups. In this case, I'm going to take HPE SimpliVity Actions, back up a
virtual machine, and whenever I'm backing up a virtual machine, I don't
have to do a lot of configuration. All we need to do is choose the
cluster to take the backup in. I can take a local backup
or a remote backup.
One of the great things with SimpliVity is each SimpliVity backup is independent
of each other. So even if a VM is deleted, the SimpliVity backups still
exist on the infrastructure. Let's take a look at how that actually
happens. In this case, I'm going to power off the VM, delete from disk. Once
the VM has been deleted, we can actually go back my remote cluster and
see if the backup exists on the remote cluster that I can use for restoring
back. I right click on my cluster, Search Backups.
And I can see the backup that we just took. I'm going to go to Backup Actions,
Restore Virtual Machine. All I need to choose is the datastore where I want the
backup to be. I'll choose the Boston datastore and Restore. Now you can see
here that, in no time, I'll actually have the new VM available for me
to perform my operations here. So every SimpliVity VM, all backup is
independent of each other and all the data is always duplicated.
Let's take a look at a couple of other operations that we currently support.
You can go to All SimpliVity Actions and quickly register an external store
right to cluster level or generate a backup report. You can also
generate a backup report from this UI where you can just select
the externals cluster and then click on Generate Backup Report.