So the guarantee is satisfied by default, for every customer and without actually providing data efficiency for your actual data!
Actual Size on Disk is only ~1TB (This is because snapshots don’t create any copies of the data).Data stored now equals 31TB (1 TB + 30 TB).Take 30 snapshots (1 per day for 30 days) and count each snapshot as if it was a full “backup” to disk.Let’s use a single 1 TB VM as a simple example.Let’s do the math on how HPE/SVT can guarantee 10:1 without giving customers ANY real data efficiency compared to even legacy solutions such as Netapp or EMC VNX type platforms. The first issue is if you use an enterprise backup solution such as Commvault, or SMB plays such as Veeam? The guarantee is void and with good reason as you will (HPE)discover shortly. Hold on, I thought we were talking about a data reduction guarantee but the fine print is talking about a caveat requiring we configure HPE/Simplivity “backups”? Let’s read the fine print about “across storage and backup combined”.
The first is “relative to comparable traditional solutions” which excludes any modern storage which has this functionality (such as Nutanix) and the words “across storage and backup combined”. It sounds pretty good, but two things caught my eye. Let’s go over what the “ HyperGuarantee” states and why it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. In fact, if you have 100TB today, you’ll likely need to purchase a similar capacity of HPE/SVT as most platform, even older/legacy ones have some data efficiency already, so what HPE/SVT is offering with deduplication and compression is nothing new or unique. If you’re a potential customer, it would be fair for you to assume that if you have 100TB on your current SAN/NAS and you purchase HPE/SVT, you would only need to buy 10TB plus some room growth or to tolerate failures.īut this couldn’t be further from the truth. In part of this series, I will respond to the claim (below) that Nutanix can’t guarantee at least a 10:1 data efficiency ratio.įirstly let’s think about what is being claimed by HPE/SVT. But since existing and prospective customers have been asking for clarification I thought I would do a series of posts addressing each claim. HPE have been relentless with their #HPEDare2Compare twitter campaign focused on the market leading Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform and I for one have had a good laugh from it.
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