Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage dHCI

HPE claims that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is for “mixed workloads at scale”. Is that just another piece of marketing jargon and what does that even mean? And why do we even need this dHCI? Why can’t I just use traditional HCI for all my workloads? Stay tuned and find out.
It’s been a while since I last talked about hyperconvergence but the fact remains, it is still one of my favorite data center technologies of all time. Simply because hyperconvergence makes complex 3-tier data center infrastructure elegant, simple, easy to use and easy to understand.
And now, with this video, I will start a series of videos focusing on an alternative to traditional HCI - HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
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0:00 Opening words
1:35 HPE hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio
2:16 What do I mean, traditional vs disaggregated?
2:56 Definition of traditional HCI
3:30 Traditional HCI challenges
5:03 Disaggregated HCI - an oxymoron?
5:37 HPE Nimble Storage dHCI architecture
7:15 Highest level of intelligence
8:08 Total cost of ownership
8:48 Why not just buy separate components?
9:29 Summary and closing words
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🌐 Relevant resources
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Hyperconvergence - Simple is Beautiful:
• Hyperconvergence - Sim...
What is HPE InfoSight:
• What is HPE InfoSight?
Official HPE Nimble Storage dHCI website:
www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/nim...
ESG economic validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Nimble Storage dHCI:
www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a500054...
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[@naumanallauddin4362]

Amazing Video I like the way How you addressed all customer objections 👏

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Nauman! Great to have you around. :)

[@andrevangijsel957]

What would be a use case be for the stormagic? Where is the change over point to simplivity from a workload perspective?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

That's a great question. There are definitely similarities but also lots of differences. First of all, with StorMagic you can choose basically whatever two HPE Proliant servers with whatever storage configuration. Then you license and Install StorMagic SvSAN software on them and off you go! It's super simple and affordable solution for small and simple environments. But that's also the downside, you can't go beyond 2 nodes, so there're capacity and resiliency limitations. In addition to much greater scalability and resiliency, Simplivity will provide you global deduplication, in-build data protection and appliance level InfoSight support.

[@andrevangijsel957]

@@TechEnthusiastInc Can you make a video on the Stormagic setup? I looked at it for a client but had doubts so I offered them a 2 node simplivity 380 config. It's in production now waiting for delivery so it can be installed.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Would be a great topic! Hopefully I have time at some point to make that video but I am afraid it has to wait a bit since I have so many other videos in the pipeline before that. :/ However, my friend Bart Heungens held a great webinar about this topic two years ago and you can watch the recording from here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5SanH-hl55laLs. Hope that helps!

[@andrevangijsel957]

@@TechEnthusiastInc great will check it out thanks.

[@IanOnyango]

Great video. Amazing visulas. 👍 I'm curious however how this solution differs from what we would traditionally call Converged Infrastructure like Flexpod from NetApp/Cisco or VxBlock from DELL/EMC? Is dHCI a marketing term or is it completely different from the solutions I've mentioned?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi, Ian! Apologies for a delayed response. That's a great question, tho! And you are spot on, as I mentioned in the video...I don't really consider HPE Nimble Storage dHCI as a real HCI, hence the thumbnail, but rather sophisticated converged system that sits somewhere in between HCI and CI. But where it differs from the aforementioned other solutions is how "hyperconverged" the user experience is: there's no need to go jiggling around in the storage array management UI or hassle with server management. Instead, there's a dedicated simple UI for managing the whole stack and the rest of the lifecycle operations are done thru VMware UI. So, in this sense...dHCI is not completely a marketing slogan. There is truth to it: it is closer to a seamless HCI user experience than VxBlock or FlexPod, which are more comparable to HPE ConvergedSystem portfolio.

[@IanOnyango]

@@TechEnthusiastInc thanks. Makes sense… Could you share a link to your socials? LinkedIn, Twitter? Would love to keep up with you & be updated whenever you post.

[@mdd1963]

08:14 the graphic 'up to 2.5X lower TCO' is utter nonsense; when something is 100% less, the cost is then 0, ergo the product is then free. Something cannot cost '2.5X lower'.... Is HPE's team attempting to interpret 50% less as 2x lower? numbers and percentages do not work that way.

[@mdd1963]

the numbers seemed to be $1M vs. $2.5M...; yes, the latter is 2.5X as much. But we don't say the former costs '2.5X less'....

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Haha! Agreed. Should be "40% compared to..." or "60% less than..." or "competitions' TCO is 2.5x higher". But in all fairness, even though this study was funded by HPE, it was ESG who wrote it so this feedback should go to them...

[@mdd1963]

@@TechEnthusiastInc I am aware the narrator/presenter did not make HPE's graphics slides! :)