SimpliVity (OmniCube)

[qwert1235]

Hi folks,

Can someone share experience about SimpliVity (OmniCube) product if you ever used it, please?

Thank you

[qwert1235]

somebody... anyboddy... ???

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OmniCube allowed us to radically simplify our infrastructure of server, storage and networking.  The solution provides superior value and innovation in a converged offering. We chose SimpliVity over Nutanix because OmniCube is architected with inline dedupe and compression, includes simple backup and data protection for all our VMs including Microsoft Dynamics, and can be managed centrally from one login and one interface through VMware vCenter.  SimpliVity support is also world class.

[qwert1235]

Thanks a lot!!!

Can you please help me figure out why "OmniCube" also have hardware part? I thought they are selling only software solution, but looks like they offer hardware with Virtual Appliance on top of it.  Is it correct?

Thanks a lot, again!

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The Omni Cube is a Hyper-Converged Platform. SimpliVity currently offers this infrastructure on Dell server hardware. This also includes the OmniStack Accelerator, which is a specially designed PCIe card that handles all phases of the data lifecycle. I believe they offer licensing options for additional x86 platforms.

The OmniCube appliance combines storage, compute and VMware ESXi hypervisor in one box.  Each 2U OmniCube has CPU, memory, SSD, HDD and inline deduplication, compression acceleration w/multiple 10GbE interfaces.  OmniCube supports a horizontal, scale-out design allowing simplified performance and capacity scaling in 2U increments.  We have a Federation, or cluster, made up of 3 OmniCubes.

[fmaulana]

nice explanation