HPE-SimpliVity

ISE 2

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Group Members:
Shraddha Shinde (2016BTECS00023)
Swati Kasar (2017BTECS00205)
Neha Mahajan (2017BTECS00206)
Mrunal Awal (2017BTECS00221)

HPE SYSTEMS (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

TITLE:

Using HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Improve Data Protection and

Recovery Effectiveness.

VISION:

To create a diverse and inclusive environment.Diversity and inclusion are key

drivers of creativity,innovation and invention.HPE wants to make diversity and
inclusion a conscious part of how they run business throughout the world.

MISSION:

To provide products,services and solutions of the best quality and deliver more value to
our customers that earns their respect and loyalty.

ABSTRACT:

Most associations planned their information assurance framework dependent on

ideas from the customer/server time, tied down by customary
reinforcement/recuperation programming that runs once every day and conveys a
24-hour recuperation point objective and a 24-hour recuperation time objective.
Considering the changing register condition in addition to the unpredictability and
insufficiency of more established information security strategies, IT associations need to
investigate their way to deal with information assurance and accessibility and unbind
themselves from the confinements of customer/server period innovations. Since these
administration level understandings are deficient much of the time, IT associations have
executed complex frameworks of previews, mirrors, remote replication, reason
manufactured reinforcement machines, and cloud reinforcement to address the
information accessibility necessities of the business.

INTRODUCTION:

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Most organizations designed their data protection infrastructure based on concepts

from the client/server era, anchored by traditional backup/recovery (B/R) software
that runs once per day and delivers a 24-hour recovery point objective (RPO) and a
24-hour recovery time objective (RTO).
In light of the changing compute environment plus the complexity and
inadequacy of older data protection methods, IT organizations need to take a fresh look
at their approach to data protection and availability and unbind themselves from the
limitations of client/server era technologies. Because these service-level agreements
(SLAs) are insufficient in most cases, IT organizations have implemented complex
systems of snapshots, mirrors, remote replication, purpose-built backup appliances, and
cloud backup to address the data availability requirements of the business.
Organizations should seek to evolve their current data protection strategies with
the following considerations:
Tightly integrate the compute infrastructure and data protection.

ABOUT “IDC”​:

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market

intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology,
telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals,
business executives, and the investment community make fact based decisions on
technology purchases and business strategy.

PURPOSE:

This examines how IT organizations can leverage HPE SimpliVity to improve and
simplify their data protection and resiliency capabilities. HPE offers the HPE SimpliVity
hyperconverged system, a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure platform that
consists of HPE SimpliVity built on the HPE ProLiant DL380 or HPE Apollo compute
platforms. All benefits of the Data Virtualization Platform referenced here apply to both
platforms.

SITUATION OVERVIEW:

IDC's research has found that a typical organization has thousands of individual
database and file system images, each used for a different purpose — all having their
own schedules for snapshots, mirrors, backup, and the like. B/R is just one of the
elements to data protection because data centre managers also utilize snapshots,
mirrors, and replication as supplemental means of data protection. Administrators
must manage scores or hundreds of daily jobs, troubleshoot problems, recover jobs,
respond to user requests for restores, and load/unload/manage tapes.
To meet the continuum of both data loss scenarios and SLA requirements, IT
organizations have implemented complex schemes of snapshots that may involve

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hundreds per volume plus local and remote mirroring. Because of the better data
protection and availability of SLAs required by business leaders, storage vendors
responded with array-based capabilities such as snapshots and mirrors (clones).To the
extent that labour related to data protection can be reduced, that freed-up labour can be
directed to other projects that may be more strategic to the organization. Moreover,
neither local mirroring nor remote mirroring has replaced traditional B/R because
neither of them can provide the full backup capabilities needed for regulatory or other
requirements. By this, we mean that data protection activities do not generally add to
the competitive advantage of the organization, except to the extent that the organization
may be able to bring an application back online faster.

WEAKNESSES OF SNAPSHOT TECHNOLOGY:

This use has exposed the following weaknesses with typical snapshot technology:

● The maximum number of possible snapshots may limit the time frame for
recovery. For example, in a system where 256 snapshots are the maximum and 1
snapshot is taken every 15 minutes, the total time covered by the snapshots
would be limited to 2.67 days.
● Because snapshots offer the best RPO compared with other technologies and
often better RTO as well, IT organizations have come to rely on them for a large
proportion of their routine data recoveries. Any requirement to recover data
prior to that time must depend on other methods, such as B/R, with a much
higher RPO and therefore lost data.
● Snapshots are not "free." Total snapshot overhead is determined by the rate of
data change However, just a 1% rate of change would result in a 2.5 times
increase in consumed capacity for a sequence of 256 snapshots.
● If a snapshot chain is broken for any reason (i.e., hardware failure and user
error), the chain is unrecoverable and an alternate recovery method will be
required, again likely resulting in a higher rate of lost data.

SOLUTIONS:

● More recently, the implementation of hyperconverged systems, which include

not only a preconfigured hardware system but also an integrated operating
environment, offers an opportunity to simultaneously simplify data protection
and improve service-level delivery and certainty.
● Because traditional backup/recovery is both labor intensive and inadequate to
meet business requirements, some IT organizations are transitioning their data
protection scheme away from the defined third-party backup model to a model
where data protection is built into the compute/storage stack.

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● The implementation of hyperconverged systems, which include not only a

preconfigured hardware system but also an integrated operating environment,
offers an opportunity to simultaneously simplify data protection and improve
service-level delivery and certainty.Hence, data protection does not need to be
an add-on application, requiring separate testing, qualification, and management.
● Offsite data storage and DR become a by-product of the overall scheme where
policies can be managed globally.

BALANCE SCORECARD :

Perspective Objectives

● Increase alliance revenues

Financial ● Reduce redundant cost across alliance members
● Increase partners revenues trou new customer relationships and
released product sales
● ​Develop rowt options for partners from alliance developing new
products and new customer relationships

● Develop new technology

Strategic ● Increase penetration with targeted customers
● ​Increase learning opportunities for partners employees assigned to
alliance

● Meet project milestone

Operational ● Reduce costs in manufacturing,sales or distribution
● Improve product development and launch processes
● ​Enhance coordination between alliance and parents

● Promote fast ,effective decision making

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Relationship ● Communicate effectively within alliance and between alliance
partners
● Build and maintain trust
● Develop clear roles, responsibilities, Objectives,and accountabilities
for alliance managers and employees.

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FUTURE STRATEGIES:

Hyperconverged foundation is substantially more than a packaging of segments.

By firmly incorporating the equipment foundation with the product working condition,
hyperconverged frameworks improve sending and can fundamentally lessen the work
expected to oversee them. From an insurance point of view, information security plans,
techniques, and usage are predictable over the earth and all around oversaw. Hubs
might be combined inside the datacenter and crosswise over server farms just as
geologically scattered, and they may incorporate cloud executions.

HPE ​SimpliVity engineering has been structured and upgraded for proficiently
overseeing information over a league. An organization comprises of frameworks that
are both neighborhood (inside the equivalent datacenter) and remote (scattered data
centers). A key capacity of this unified engineering is productive information portability
inside and crosswise over datacenters, which results in improved information
assurance and accessibility

KEY CAPACITIES: “SIMPLIVITY”

● Productive information portability inside and crosswise over data centers, which
results in improved information assurance and accessibility.
● HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged framework intended to give venture
framework abilities cloud like financial aspects. This stage gives flexible
framework and information administrations for virtualized outstanding tasks at
hand running on it.
● It includes integrated data protection that eliminates the need for separately
licensed backup/recovery or remote replication software or purpose-built
backup appliances.
● HPE SimpliVity data protection and disaster recovery technologies differ
significantly from conventional backup, recovery, or snapshot methods and
offers the best of both worlds: the complete protection of backup and disaster
recovery software with the speed and RPO/RTO of snapshots.

HIGHLIGHTS:

● Each HPE SimpliVity node is functionally an independent system: Corruption on

one node cannot affect another.
● There is no practical limit to the number of backups that can be created and
retained.
● Each copy is a full backup. There is no chain of changes that can be broken,
corrupted, or needed for replay. This means that you can delete the original VM
and the backup will still be functional.

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● Backups incorporate a clone of the VM parent object. The full VM tree is

legitimately duplicated in its whole, and all VM trees are a similar length: If the
first VM is erased, it can even now be recuperated from the backup set.
● Storage capacity improves over time (i.e., reduced) because all data, metadata,
and pointers are deduplicated.
● HPE offers HPE SimpliVity Rapid DR — an optional, standalone disaster recovery
orchestration tool that was developed specifically to work with HPE SimpliVity.
● Data and metadata corruption can be detected with a "fingerprint" of checksum
and hash values.
● HPE SimpliVity deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes data the first time it is
written to disk and maintains it in that state for its life cycle, backup copies are
already deduplicated and compressed, thereby eliminating the need for
third-party software or purpose-built backup appliances.
● Reinforcement pictures can be moved to an offsite framework for DR:
▪​ Two duplicates are consequently kept on various hubs.
▪​ Copied squares can't be erased.

MARKET SURVEY:

IDC conducted an independent survey of HPE SimpliVity users. The purpose was to
determine whether, and to what degree, organizations benefited from the company's
approach to data protection. The topics regarding survey were as follows:

● System deployment benefits expected to attain by implementing HPE

SimpliVity:
The results are shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 illustrates that improved
backup/recovery was the number 1 objective cited by respondents.
Interestingly, of the top 4 items, two items apply directly or indirectly to data
protection operations.

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● No of organizations which had been able to retire from their current

backup and/or replication solutions as part of simplifying operations:
The results are shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 shows that 51% of respondents were
able to entirely retire their current backup software and replace it with the HPE
SimpliVity solution. The elimination of a separate backup application can
reasonably imply a reduction in licensing and maintenance fees and
simplification of the operating environment.

● Percentage of improvement in data protection:

The results are shown in Figure 3. As illustrated in Figure 3, HPE SimpliVity
customers indicated a 54.5% improvement in their B/R and DR operations. This

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is a significant improvement. In addition, customers reported a 40.4% reduction

in storage resource utilization, a 33.4% reduction in downtime, and improved
application availability.

● Staffing requirements for B/R activities before and after implementing an

HPE SimpliVity solution:
Figure 4 shows the shift from higher levels of staffing before HPE SimpliVity to
lower levels after HPE SimpliVity. customers reported an average of 2.11
full-time equivalents (FTEs) required to manage their infrastructure, which
dropped to just 1.48 FTEs after implementing the platform.

CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES:

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To profit most from another innovation, IT associations must be happy to

re-evaluate their framework and application sending models to defeat "the manner in
which we've constantly done it" disorder. To be sure, changes to foundation sway the
two individuals and forms, and these progressions require adjustment of staff and
clients. Despite the fact that a definitive advantages might be convincing, exertion will
be required to accomplish them. In expansion, the information security market utilizing
HCI frameworks is ending up progressively swarmed; so HPE should grow new abilities
quickly and in accordance with advertise necessities to stay focused.
What's more, it is impossible that most associations can, or will, change their
whole foundation to HPE SimpliVity at once. Therefore IT administrators should search
for an application-by-application usage that is controllable and provable as they move
to hyper converged foundation after some time.
To address this, HPE is extending its HPE SimpliVity association biological
system, including Veeam and MicroFocus, to address key use cases past what HPE
SimpliVity right now offers.

CONCLUSION:

Hyperconverged frameworks incorporate inherent flexibility and information

assurance plans, which robotize activities with the end goal that they become a result of
the figure process, offering a genuine chance to improve information insurance,
streamline activities, and limit expensive vacation.IT associations should essentially
reevaluate their information assurance and versatility procedures to meet progressively
stringent information and application accessibility prerequisites.While it is conceivable
to utilize these equivalent methods on fresher designs, they are probably not going to
twist the expense and work bends enough to have a major effect on generally speaking
IT tasks.

IDC's survey of HPE SimpliVity customers revealed that these organizations have
experienced tangible, measurable results in terms of higher data availability, better
operations, and reduced labor related to data backup and DR. In more than half of the
cases, organizations were able to retire existing data protection solutions. We can
certainly say that the HPE SimpliVity systems have lived up to the expectations of IT
managers in the organizations that we surveyed.

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