What is HPE SimpliVity about?
At its most basic, hyper-converged infrastructure combines physical servers and storage with data services inside a single chassis or hyper-converged node. Whereas other brands converge only part of the infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity converges the entire IT stack in each node, consolidating as many as 10 devices and apps in a simple, powerful building block for virtualized environments. Architected to empower the VM administrator, HPE SimpliVity improves the management, protection, efficiency, and performance of virtualized workloads.
The Core Solution and How it works
HPE boasts about a hyper-converged architecture that’s evolved way beyond software-defined to AI-driven — and delivers self-managing, self-optimizing, and self-healing infrastructure. HPE has added the machine learning predictive analytics of HPE Infosight to their hyper-converged platform, they’ve ushered in the era of intelligent HCI. With severe challenges to business operations globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are relying on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to power remote users while maintaining data security. Simple, easy-to-scale, and featuring built-in data protection, HPE SimpliVity is an ideal solution for your VDI needs.
Why Choose HPE SimpliVity
- Simplifies IT: HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution provides scalable resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including compute, storage and data protection capabilities—in a single device, with a unified, VM-centric administrative interface. VM centricity and mobility enable all actions, policies, and management at the VM level, while global unified management and integration with established administrative systems streamline operations and improve IT agility.
- Fast: With HPE SimpliVity, your enterprise can rapidly deploy and scale hyperconverged building blocks to meet the changing demands of your organization. Not only can you deploy blocks, but with this network you can manage VM environments quickly and easily using the VMware interface. Not only is it fast to adjust the system to fit your needs, HPE SimpliVity also allows you to quickly view all data centers and remote and branch offices within a single interface. This ability to see your data quickly allows you to manage your resources and seamlessly move data across sites to where they are needed. Further, SimpliVity delivers peak and predictable application performance with a modern data architecture that is faster than other hyperconverged solutions currently available.
- Powerful: With built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery, HPE SimpliVity provides powerful data protection that reduces data loss along with lowering the risk of ransomware attacks on your enterprise. With the integrated HPE SimpliVity RapidDR, you can simplify and accelerate your disaster recovery efforts while also providing VM protection across primary and secondary sites. HPE SimpliVity also provides powerful encryption to secure even the most sensitive data, such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, with HPE Secure Encryption—a level-1 validated solution that secures your sensitive data-at-rest. You can rest easy knowing your confidential information is safely stored on a powerful system with the resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery that will keep it out of the wrong hands.
- Efficient: Enjoy the support and investment protection that only HPE can offer. When your enterprise deploys HPE SimpliVity, you’ll be able to reduce the number of devices in your data center by up to ten-times while also decreasing the total cost of ownership. When it comes to your enterprise’s primary and backup storage, this hyperconverged infrastructure is able to reduce the capacity and utilization by up to ten-times with always-on deduplication and compression. HPE SimpliVity lets you streamline your enterprise’s infrastructure, allowing you to dedicate your valuable resources on other areas within your organization.
Cloud Benefits with Enterprise Capabilities
Enterprises today seek the agility, elasticity and affordability promised by cloud computing. However, IT organizations also want the performance, reliability and resiliency of on-premises infrastructure. HPE SimpliVity delivers both. It offers organizations an affordable and flexible solution to start virtualizing their enterprise while also keeping the most sensitive data safe.
As you can see, there are many benefits to deploying a hyperconverged infrastructure, and HPE SimpliVity is a great solution to consider for your enterprise. Want to know more about how this network setup can help you reach your business goals? Contact us today to talk to one of our experts about hyperconverged infrastructure.
Creating A Better Data Center
HPE InfoSight is a natural fit for the data center environment. Predictive analytics can be called on to solve a myriad of problems that plague modern data centers and prompt both reduced efficiency and security concerns. Top applications offered through the genius integration of InfoSight and SimpliVity include:
- Forecasting an accurate timeline that can indicate when the physical capacity will be full
- Determining which virtual machines consume the most resources.
- Determining which virtual machines consume the most resources.
- Receiving automated wellness alerts.
Ultimately, HPE InfoSight improves the streamlining and simplicity that HPE SimpliVity already promotes. VM administration, in particular, is easier to handle under this integrated approach. Administrators no longer need to waste precious time searching for necessary information or wondering when capacity will run out. InfoSight’s proactive approach is ideal in a data server environment in which reactivity is best avoided.
If you’re ready to make the most of a simplified data center made smarter with artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, HPE InfoSight and HPE SimpliVity may be just the ticket! Reach out to Comport to find out how you can leverage this new solution to reduce administration hassles, improve efficiency, and strengthen security.