HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Hardware Tour

Yes! SimpliVity! My all-time favourite data center hardware!
Not because it's a revolutionary never-seen-before piece of hardware but because its intelligence turns complex IT mess into a simple commodity hardware based all-in-one device. Truly a disruptive game changer in the enterprise IT world.
Join me with a hardware tour of the latest HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10 hyperconvergence node.
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[@andreaun]

Very nice tour! Thanks! It should be nice a video about HPE Synergy.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you very much, André! Always nice to hear good feedback. :) I will definitely do another one of Synergy immediately once HPE sends me the hardware. =D Cheers!

[@adityajain1989]

Congrats for having your own channel. This product is magical and all our customer ack. it.. You are awosome talks really well about this product. Something with TIA card is Performance controller. So unlike other vendors we use 2 controllers for very high level of performance.. Dint Knew about upgarde & Scale thing post 3.7.7... Awosome..

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Aditya! I couldn't agree more - best HCI solution out there, hands down. Thanks for the compliments too, I really appreciate it. Yep, upgrading and scaling got improved a lot with 3.7.7. But now 4.0 is out already, have you heard of it? If not, read all about it from my friend Bart Heungens' blog post: www.bitcon.be/major-update-for-hpe-simplivity-with-4-0-0-release/ By the way, lightboarding video about InfoSight coming out still this week! Stay tuned! :)

[@aryehbarron4067]

Great video once again!

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you!

[@BatyrMukushev]

Great job 👍

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Batyr! :)

[@sameoldme08]

Markus - Great work... can you make some more videos on simplivity telling about the key components.. Backup strategy ..etc Thanks

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Madhu! Thanks for the comment. Sure I will - SimpliVity still is my favourite piece of enterprise tech. Just stay tuned! :)

[@nazirhussain7463]

Thanks a lot, you have very good presentation skill, could you make more videos on simplivity, specially on architecture of simplivity.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Happy to hear you enjoyed it, Nazir! At the moment I am finishing up my new studio - I can't wait to start making more videos. Hyperconvergence and SimpliVity are some of my favourite topics so stay tuned! :)

[@sam72665]

Very Informative, Thanks, it will be great if you can upload more videos on simplivity, we can find many training videos on Nutanix but on simplivity very less videos we can find . please do consider to make videos on simplivity rapid DR.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Glad you enjoyed it, Faisal! You are absolutely right, there's not enough Simplivity videos in KZbin. I will try my best to fix that ASAP. Stay tuned! :)

[@DinushaMadusankaChandrasinghe]

Good Work need Installation demo next time

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Dinusha! Feedback much appreciated. :) Installation video is a very good idea. I've had it on my to-do list for a while but other things seem to be popping up. But I will try to do that at some point. :)

[@kuvavastudios1746]

Can you do a video on the Simplivity 25TB hybrid Archival node and also the new SimpliVity G node(without the accelarator card) ?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Kuva Studios! Thank you for the request. That would certainly be interesting. At the moment I don't have either of these nodes but rest assured, once I get the demo units, I will make videos of them. :)

[@vikrantsdogra]

Thanks for the information, Can we upgrade the storage kit as well if needed?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

You can. With config dependant limitations. 😬

[@fjneela82]

Does this simplivity server boots up with 1.44mb disk :) Like hyperconverged. can you elaborate more on the hispeed 10gb network ports. Can you add additional mezz card for more ports. and is that a good solution for vsphere 7 can it take heavy virtual workloads apps like SQL VM/ memory intense apps.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Haha, yep! Better rely on proven tech. 😋 Well, I just had to cover the serial number and credentials with something and 1.44MB disks were close-by so they got the job. 😁 10Gbit ports are mainly used for storage federation traffic (between nodes within a SimpliVity cluster). You can use 1Gbit ports too but obviously you will experience some performance penalty if you do. For all other traffic, 1Gbit is perfectly fine. Yes, you can add mezz cards. Check HPE Quickspecs for more information: h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00021989enw SimpliVity can take virtually any virtualized workload you throw at it. Memory will certainly not be an issue. Only caveat is if you require ultra low latencies. For those situations, you might be better off with a more traditional 3-tier approach or disaggregated HCI like HPE Nimble Storage dHCI or NetApp HCI.

[@markcpf9993]

Dear Sir, May I know which power cable you use for it? is it 2x 8-pin cable kit or 8x 6-pin cable kit?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Mark! I believe you mean the graphics adapter (NVIDIA Tesla M10) power connector? Unfortunately I don't have that SimpliVity unit with me anymore so I can't physically check it but Tesla M10 requires an 8-pin PCI-e power connection from the motherboard. 6-pin connector does not deliver enough power to this quad GPU board. For more, check pp. 8: images.nvidia.com/content/pdf/tesla/Tesla-M10-Product-Brief.pdf

[@Tech.Journey]

Great channel and great video about SympliVity Proliant DL 380. ¿It's possible that you do a video tour about Proliant 380DL the "very normal server" :)?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi there! Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you liked the video. :) Absolutely, that's a great idea. Actually I have one Gen10 lying around that I could use for that. I will put that on my list of Todo's, let's hope I will have time to make the video sometime soon. What would you like to see in the video?

[@Tech.Journey]

@@TechEnthusiastInc thanks for your reply. Is it possible a guied tour?. Features and advantages. I understand the SympliVity great features, but in my country is a expensive solution. Right now my company plans an infraestructure upgrade. The seller offers SympliVity or Traditional Upgrade. For the costs we decided for an infraestructure upgrade. The idea is buy three servers Proliant Gen10 (2 in production an 1 in DRP) and external storage. For this reason I found your channel, but always I found the advantages of Simplivity but I didn't found a good description about a traditional proliant 380 DL. I need a impartial opinion about this, not a seller opinion :). Your channel is pure gold. Clear and profesional explanations and the video postprocessing , very cool. Congrats!

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Absolutely! I feel you. Upfront costs of SimpliVity (like any HCI solution) is quite a lot higher than traditional solutions. However, many customers find TCO actually lower and ROI much greater compared to traditional architecture. Maybe worth revisiting this? Having said that, it's all subjective. If you've got the skills and extra time...you can get away much cheaper with building the infra by yourself. It's like building your own PC vs. buying an iMac. 😉 Like Mac OS comes only with iMac and you can't install it on PC...SimpliVity also gives you some advantages like built-in backup, global deduplication and single console management that are not available for your own build. Anyway, traditional servers these days are immensily powerful with tons of features built in. I am sure many are struggling with the very decision you have to make and I think this video would make a lot of sense. So, thank you a lot for this request! I will definitely do this at some point. I am afraid it will be a bit more towards the fall time, though. Bare with me. Thanks also for the very encouraging words about my channel, I am very glad to see you appreciate the quality that I try to put in my videos. Have a great day, Sir. 😊

[@Tech.Journey]

​@@TechEnthusiastInc Thanks for your reply. The PC and Mac comparison is great. I will use it in my exposition about this topic in my company.

[@samrust8020]

Thank you for your great job. I wish you can make video comparing Dell EMC VS HPE VS Lenovo servers please.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

That's a great idea, I would love to! For that, I'd need to get some hardware from all vendors. If I one day do, you bet I'm gonna make a comparison video! 😋

[@samrust8020]

@@TechEnthusiastInc I love your videos. Your explanation is simple and straightforward. I wish all vendors provide you with free items to make tutorials. I would like to ask you if you can make more detailed videos about VMware from A to Z please.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Oh yes! I'll join you with that wish! All vendors, ahoy! 😋 VMware is one of the most interesting companies in the industry and I am at least going to touch VMware with many of my upcoming videos. Hopefully I have time in the near future to make some dedicated VMware videos too. What VMware videos specifically would you be interested in?

[@sandeshkumar8500]

Cisco 240 M7 SFF next level

[@konstantinn2149]

Hi! Markus. Did you check if e.g. KVM virtualization works there on the SimpliVity platforms?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Konstantin! To my knowledge, HPE SimpliVity is still only available with VMware vSphere. There was a short period of time when MS Hyper-V was supported but HPE ditched that pretty quickly for the lack of demand. But an interesting point, I would like to see a KVM version of SVT!

[@konstantinn2149]

@@TechEnthusiastInc Thank for your answer. Seems, that I will have a chance to test it soon. But the question was mainly to get the understanding if it is in general possible to install e.g. RedHat on the platform (as this is normal DL server) and as fact, use it as a server (without axceleration HW module user for offloading routine tasks).

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Oh! Didn't even cross my mind that anyone would want to do that. 😂 But sure you _can_, it's a Proliant. Just wipe everything on it, install KVM and you'll be good to go. Just be mindful that you'll loose about 80% of what you've paid for and support is cut the moment you do that so not sure how to update firmware etc anymore. Also, don't expect much help from HPE. 😉

[@konstantinn2149]

@@TechEnthusiastInc Thank you for your answer and oppinion. I agree with you that most of the benefits will be lost. But there are situations when you left no choice. Sad to say. (

[@skatar01887]

I know I am late on this, just starting to learn about this system, but if this is a hardware tour then why is there no mention of the array or controller in the system.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi yahright! I assume that by array/controller you mean storage, right? Actually I do talk quite a lot about it. In the beginning I mention the 24 SFF SSD's that you can populate the node with and I dedicated a whole section in the middle of the video to the SimpliVity accelerator card that takes care of many of the tasks that typically falls on storage controllers in storage arrays. There's also a bunch of storage operations that SimpliVity OmniStack software takes care of. But that's not hardware talk anymore. :)

[@jouinisofien7451]

Could you please tell me the difference between HC380 and simplivity 380 ?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Jouini! In short the difference is HCI software and accelerator card. Both of them are based on the same server hardware family so no difference there. Also, both run VMware ESXi. But that's where similarities end. HC380 (now discontinued) used StoreVirtual VSA software to create the storage pool from multiple nodes. SimpliVity uses OmniStack software to do the same. In addition to just creating the pool of storage OmnkStack has the capability to do global duplication for all the data. Also, Simplivity has a built in backup for VMs. Also, some SimpliVity models have a dedicated accelerator card that takes care of dedup and other data management so that CPU can bee fully utilized by VMs. Lastly, SimpliVity can now back up data to external StoreOnce device as well as to HPE Cloud Volumes. Oh! One more thing: SimpliVity is backed by HPE InfoSight, data center AI that makes sure your environment runs in an optimal way. So, those are the main differencies. :)

[@jouinisofien7451]

@@TechEnthusiastInc thank you for the detailed answer. ive noticed that HC380 nodes should be homogenous but in simplivity is not the case (one node with omnistack, more hard disks..). is that correct ? is simplivity also designed for VDI, cloud and VM? finally, why HPE sometimes uses cisco omnistack ? thanks a lot

[@MrHillstream]

What are the 1.44 MB disks for? :D

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Haha! I knew it that's gonna be the first question - thank you for that, Sami! =D Well, I just didn't want to share the nodes' default credentials and serial numbers with everybody so I put the 1.44's to useful work one more time. ;)

[@myurdakul]

Hi Markus I think the boot disks behind are SAS 300GB and not SSD as you mentioned at least for now..

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hah! You are right, Mehmet! How come nobody else noticed this mistake before (me including)...thanks for correcting me. You must be a SimpliVity expert, huh? 😉