Manage MyLibrary tab You can access delegated configurations in OCA by clicking on the Manage MyLibrary tab at the top of the interface. This tab will show you the configurations that you have created, saved, or imported, as well as the configurations that have been delegated to you by other users. You can filter the configurations by various criteria, such as name, date, status, or owner, and you can also search for specific configurations using the search bar. You can open, edit, copy, or delete the delegated configurations, as well as delegate them to other users.

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Based on the customer’s requirements, the following strategy would meet their needs:

Server: Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus Storage: Alletra 6000 Data Protection: StoreOnce with Veeam Data

Protection backup: full/synthetic full local backup rotation

Explanation:

Server: Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus

The Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus is a composable, scalable, and flexible server that can support VMware

clusters with high performance, availability, and efficiency. It offers the following benefits for the

customer:

Composable: The Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus can be dynamically configured and reconfigured using

software-defined templates and profiles, allowing the customer to optimize their resources for

different workloads and applications. The customer can also leverage HPE OneView and HPE

Composer to automate and orchestrate their infrastructure management, reducing the complexity

and overhead.

Scalable: The Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus can support up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 3

TB of memory, and up to 24 SFF drives or 12 LFF drives per node. It can also be expanded with up to

six mezzanine options, including Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and InfiniBand adapters. The customer can

scale their VMware cluster horizontally or vertically as their needs grow, without compromising on

performance or efficiency.

Flexible: The Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus can support various operating systems, hypervisors, and

applications, including VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware Cloud Foundation. It can also

integrate with HPE GreenLake, HPE’s edge-to-cloud platform, to provide the customer with a pay-

per-use, as-a-service model that can lower their costs and risks.

Storage: Alletra 6000

The Alletra 6000 is a mid-range storage solution that offers flexible performance, scalability, and

resiliency for business-critical workloads. It is suitable for the customer’s VMware cluster because:

Flexible performance: The Alletra 6000 can deliver up to 900K IOPS with sub-300 microseconds

latency, supporting the customer’s business and customer-facing applications with consistent and

reliable performance. It can also support NVMe and SAS technologies, and offer three performance

tiers: Performance, Business Critical, and Mission Critical, allowing the customer to choose the best

option for their workloads and service level objectives.

Scalability: The Alletra 6000 can support up to 16 PB of raw capacity, and up to 64 hosts per system. It

can also scale out with HPE Cloud Volumes, HPE’s cloud-native storage service, to provide the

customer with hybrid cloud capabilities and flexibility. The customer can scale their storage capacity

and performance as their VMware cluster grows, without compromising on availability or efficiency.

Resiliency: The Alletra 6000 offers a 100% data availability guarantee, ensuring that the customer’s

data is always accessible and protected. It also supports various data protection features, such as

snapshots, replication, encryption, and erasure coding, to enhance the customer’s data security and

recovery. The customer can also leverage HPE InfoSight, HPE’s AI-driven predictive analytics

platform, to monitor and optimize their storage performance, health, and utilization, and to prevent

issues before they impact their operations.

Data Protection: StoreOnce with Veeam

The StoreOnce with Veeam is a data protection solution that combines HPE’s deduplication

appliance and Veeam’s backup and recovery software to provide the customer with fast, efficient,

and reliable backup and recovery for their VMware cluster. It offers the following benefits for the

customer:

Fast backup and recovery: The StoreOnce with Veeam can reduce the backup window and the

recovery time objective (RTO) for the customer’s VMware cluster, by leveraging source-side

deduplication, synthetic full backups, and instant VM recovery. The customer can back up and restore

their data in minutes, minimizing the impact of downtime or data loss on their business and

customers.

Efficient storage utilization: The StoreOnce with Veeam can reduce the storage footprint and the

bandwidth consumption for the customer’s backup data, by leveraging target-side deduplication,

compression, and encryption. The customer can store up to 20 times more backup data on the same

amount of storage, and reduce the network traffic by up to 95%, lowering their costs and risks.

Reliable data protection: The StoreOnce with Veeam can provide the customer with multiple levels of

data protection, by supporting local, remote, and cloud backup and recovery options. The customer

can also leverage HPE Cloud Bank Storage, HPE’s cloud storage service, to store their backup data in

the cloud, enhancing their data durability and availability. The customer can also leverage Veeam’s

features, such as backup verification, ransomware protection, and data governance, to ensure their

data integrity and compliance.

Data Protection backup: full/synthetic full local backup rotation

The full/synthetic full local backup rotation is a backup strategy that involves creating a full backup of

the customer’s VMware cluster once, and then creating synthetic full backups periodically by

combining the previous full backup with the incremental backups. This strategy offers the following

benefits for the customer:

Reduced backup window: The full/synthetic full local backup rotation can reduce the time and

resources required to create full backups, by eliminating the need to read the entire data set from

the source every time. The customer can create synthetic full backups faster and more efficiently,

without impacting their production environment or performance.

Improved recovery point objective (RPO): The full/synthetic full local backup rotation can improve

the frequency and granularity of the customer’s backups, by creating incremental backups daily or

more often. The customer can capture the changes in their data more frequently, reducing the

amount of data loss in case of a disaster or failure.

Simplified backup management: The full/synthetic full local backup rotation can simplify the

customer’s backup management, by reducing the number of backup files and chains that need to be

maintained and monitored. The customer can also leverage Veeam’s features, such as backup copy

jobs, backup retention policies, and backup reports, to automate and optimize their backup

processes and operations.

HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that combines compute, storage,

networking, and data services in a single appliance1. HPE SimpliVity clusters are groups of HPE

SimpliVity nodes that share the same federation and data center2. HPE SimpliVity clusters can be

expanded by adding new nodes to increase the capacity and performance of the cluster3.

However, adding new nodes with newer generation Intel CPUs to an existing HPE SimpliVity cluster

may cause compatibility issues for vMotion, the VMware technology that enables live migration of

virtual machines between hosts4. vMotion requires that the source and destination hosts have

compatible CPUs, meaning that they support the same set of CPU features4. If the new nodes have

different or additional CPU features than the existing nodes, vMotion may fail or be restricted4.

To facilitate adding the new hosts to the cluster, one possible solution is to enable Enhanced vMotion

Compatibility (EVC) on the cluster5. EVC is a feature of VMware vSphere that ensures vMotion

compatibility for the hosts in a cluster that are running different CPU generations5. EVC masks the

CPU features that are not common among all hosts in the cluster, so that all hosts present the same

CPU feature set to the virtual machines5. This way, vMotion can be performed without CPU

compatibility errors5.

To enable EVC on the cluster, the following steps are required5:

Power off all virtual machines in the cluster, or migrate them to another cluster.

Edit the cluster settings and select the EVC mode that corresponds to the baseline CPU feature set

for the cluster. The EVC mode must be equivalent to or a subset of the feature set of the host with

the smallest feature set in the cluster.

Add the new hosts to the cluster and verify that they are compatible with the EVC mode.

Power on the virtual machines in the cluster, or migrate them back from another cluster.

By enabling EVC, the cluster can benefit from the improved vMotion compatibility and flexibility of

adding new hosts with newer generation Intel CPUs. However, enabling EVC also has some

limitations and trade-offs, such as5:

EVC does not allow vMotion between hosts with different CPU vendors, such as AMD and Intel.

EVC does not prevent vMotion from failing for other reasons, such as network or storage

incompatibility.

EVC may prevent virtual machines from accessing some CPU features that are available on newer

hosts, but not on older hosts.

EVC may not work with some applications that do not follow the CPU vendor recommended

methods of feature detection.

Therefore, enabling EVC should be carefully planned and tested before adding the new hosts to the

cluster.

Reference:

1: HPE SimpliVity

2: HPE SimpliVity User Guide

3: HPE SimpliVity Expansion Installation and Startup Service

4: VMware EVC and CPU Compatibility FAQ

5: About Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

HPE Cloud Bank Storage is a feature of HPE StoreOnce Systems that enables cost-effective and secure

long-term retention of backup data in the cloud. It integrates with HPE GreenLake backup solutions

to provide a flexible and scalable cloud storage option for customers who want to optimize their

backup costs and simplify their operations. HPE Cloud Bank Storage supports multiple cloud

providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Scality. It also provides deduplication,

encryption, and compression to reduce the storage footprint and bandwidth consumption of backup

data. HPE Cloud Bank Storage is compatible with various backup applications, such as Commvault,

Data Protector, and Veeam. Reference: HPE GreenLake - Edge-to-cloud platform | HPE, Edge to Cloud

| HPE GreenLake | HPE EUROPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Edge-to-Cloud Data Protection: HPE +

Veeam Solutions, HPE Edge-to-Cloud Solutions | H61X1S - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE Edgeline 8000 is a ruggedized and modular edge system that delivers high performance,

availability, and scalability for compute-intensive workloads in harsh environments. HPE Edgeline

8000 supports up to 16 blades with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 1.5TB of memory per blade,

and up to 48TB of storage per system. HPE Edgeline 8000 also offers integrated networking, security,

and management features, as well as optional GPU and FPGA acceleration. HPE Edgeline 8000 can

operate in temperatures ranging from -10°C to 55°C, exceeding the ASHRAE Class4

standard12. Reference: HPE Edgeline 8000 | HPE Store US, HPE Edgeline 8000 - Data Sheet