Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR, but hyperconvergence promises to take things further. Is what VMware and Hyper-V offer good enough? If not, is hyperconverged infrastructure the answer? That’s what W. Curtis Preston, Senior Analyst from Storage Switzerland and Mike Lyon, Service Delivery Manager from Scale Computing discuss in this on demand webinar.

1. In this webinar you will learn:
● The DR limitations of VMware / Hyper-V
● The challenges with a 3rd party DR product
● The advantages of alternative hypervisors
DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures
Available On Demand
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2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
W. Curtis Preston is a Senior Analyst at Storage
Switzerland. He has been specializing in data
protection for over 20 years, having designed and
implemented backup, DR, and archive systems for
some of the largest companies in the world. He is
the author of O’Reilly’s Backup & Recovery and
Using SANs and NAS.

4. Our Speakers
Mike Lyon is the service delivery manager for Scale
Computing, and he works to develop professional services
as well as integrations and partnerships that enhance the
ecosystem of Scale Computing’s HC3 Hyperconverged
infrastructure platform.
Lately, he worked to launch a DRaaS offering that provides
a managed disaster recovery solution, along with the SSD
Retrofit service to enable existing HC3 clusters to take
advantage of flash. Mike has 20 years of experience as an
IT professional, in financial services, higher education, and
national retail.

5. Who is Scale?
International Presence
Indianapolis (HQ)
Silicon Valley
London
Paris
Toronto
Dubai
1500+ Customers
5500+ Systems
• HC3 launched in 2012
• Market Leader in SMB/SME Hyperconvergence
• Integrated IT Infrastructure
– Unique technology powered by 24 patents.
• Scale’s DNA
– Radically simplified management
– High availability designed in
– Comprehensive support
• Net Promoter Score: 88
– Higher customer loyalty than the Apple iPhone
• Healthcare, Education, Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Government & Defense.
Servers, Storage, and Virtualization.
Simplified.

6. Polling Question
What is your DR plan for your VMs?

7. Array-Based Limitations
• Most HCI vendors do not support external storage
• Must have same exact array setup
• Cannot do many to one, one to many
• All virtual disks, VMX files, RDM devices and LUN
working directory must all be in the same array
• Cannot change snapshot location (WorkingDir)
• Supports linked clones, but all nodes in a snapshot tree
must be replicated

8. Software Replication
Limitations
• Only recover to last snapshot in VMware
• Previous snapshots wiped out in a restore
• Multiple VMware snapshots a bad idea anyway
• vSphere Replication does not support linked clones
• Hyper-V limited to 24 recovery points and 24 hours of
history
• Hyper-V DR only supports Windows 2012

9. Shared Site Limitations
• SRM does not support one to many replication
• Each SRM pair must have its own physical host
machine at recovery site
• Shared recovery site can handle max of 10 protected
sites
• Every customer at a shared recovery site can see every
other customer’s data!
• Hyper-V extended replication doesn’t support
application consistency

10. CPU Limitations
• Must have 100%
compatible CPUs on
BIOS settings if using
memory state
snapshots

11. The Challenges With Adding A Third
Party DR Product
• Cost
• Complexity of learning,
integrating and managing
3rd party product

12. The Advantages Of Alternative
Hypervisors
• Integrated DR without these
limitations
• No “VMware tax”
• No 3rd party backup product
to buy, learn, manage

13. Scale HC3 Features
• Single Unified Management Interface
• Block Access, Direct Attached Storage System
• Hybrid Flash with Automated Tiering
• Cluster to Cluster Replication and Failover
• Thin Cloning and Snapshots
• Rolling, Non-Disruptive Updates
• Deploy a Cluster with Live VMs in <1 Hour
• Deploy a New Node with No Downtime in Minutes

14. HC3 Simplified Management

15. HC3 Advantages
• Designed Specifically for the SMB
• Hyper-Efficient I/O Path – No VSA Architecture
• Hypervisor Included – No 3rd Party Licensing
• Fully Redundant, Fault Tolerant, Stress Free
• 24/7/365 In-House ScaleCare Support
• Near Turnkey Deployment
• No Expertise Required (Storage, HA, Virtualization)

16. What’s New?
New in 2016!
• Hybrid Flash, Tiered Storage Nodes
– HC1150, HC2150, HC4150
• New HC1100 Node
• HEAT – Turn it up to 11
• Snapshot Scheduling
• Per-VM Real-Time Statistics
• Cluster-wide IOPS Statistic

17. HC3 Systems
Sample Configurations: Compute
# of Cores: 18
RAM: 192GB
Storage
SSD Raw Capacity: 12TB
Disk Speed: 7.2k RPM
Network
6 x 11GbE bonded active/passive
Compute
# of Cores: 160
RAM: 4TB
Storage
SSD Raw Capacity: 12.8TB
SAS Raw Capacity: 96TB
Network
16 x 10GbE bonded active/passive
8 x HC4150
3 x HC1100
$25,500 $350,000
HC1100
HC2100
HC2150
HC4100
HC4150
6 - 8 $8,5001GbE or 10GbE64GB – 128GB
$11,700
$20,50010GbE
$22,60010GbE
$35,87510GbE
Cores RAM
6 - 8 64GB - 256GB
8 128GB - 256GB
12 - 20 128GB – 512GB
16 - 20 384GB - 512GB
4TB - 16TB 7.2k
Raw Capacity
2.4TB – 7.2TB 10k
7.2k
4.8TB – 14.4TB 10k
7.2k
1GbE or 10GbE
COMPUTE
per node
STORAGE
per node
NETWORK
per node
PRICE
per node starting at
SSD: 400GB - 800GB
SAS: 3TB – 18TB
SSD: 800GB - 1.6TB
SAS: 6TB – 12TB
Disk Speed (RPM)
HC2000HC4000
HC1150 1GbE or 10GbE8
SSD: 480GB – 1.92TB
SAS: 3TB – 12TB
$10,000
HC1000
64GB - 256GB
7.2k

18. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Scale Computing
https://www.scalecomputing.com
Scale Computing on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/scalecomputing
Scale Computing on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScaleComputing
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https://www.facebook.com/ScaleComputing/

19. DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures
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