#NIMBLE INFOSIGHT FULL#
"It's now tracking at a full system level," Singh said of InfoSight on SimpliVity. HPE has ported Nimble's InfoSight predictive analytics management tool onto several of its hardware platforms, including 3PAR storage and the ProLiant servers on which SimpliVity runs.
#NIMBLE INFOSIGHT DRIVER#
InfoSight was a major driver of HPE's $1.2 billion Nimble acquisition in 2017.
#NIMBLE INFOSIGHT SOFTWARE#
Now, it is trying to give SimpliVity a boost with InfoSight software and new hardware models for remote sites and bulk storage. HPE acquired early HCI vendor SimpliVity for $650 million in 2017. SimpliVity gets InfoSight, capacity nodes It stood a distant third behind Dell and Nutanix in branded appliances and behind Dell-owned VMware and Nutanix in HCI software. According to IDC, hyper-converged revenue surpassed converged infrastructure revenue in 2018 and has continued to increase year over year every quarter, while converged infrastructure revenue has declined in recent quarters.įor the fourth quarter of 2018, IDC put HPE at 5.4% of the HCI market. Why not just use converged infrastructure? Perhaps because the market has shifted to HCI systems. You can scale compute and storage independently - something that traditional HCI was missing." He said Nimble dHCI provides "HCI-like functionality without SimpliVity hardware. Steve McDowell, senior analyst for data center technologies at Moor Insights & Strategy, also said he doesn't consider Nimble dHCI true HCI, but said it can bring value to the same type of customers who want HCI. Singh said the new automation software will enable Nimble Storage customers to turn their arrays into dHCI systems by adding ProLiant servers. He said SimpliVity HCI is better for customers who know how their storage and compute will scale ahead of time, while Nimble dHCI would help those who are not sure if their future needs will require more compute or storage. Sandeep Singh, vice president of storage marketing at HPE, described Nimble dHCI as combining "the simplicity of hyper-converged experience with the flexibility of converged." HPE marketing materials on Nimble dHCI refer to it as both at times. HPE is hedging on whether it considers Nimble converged or hyper-converged. But they don't have that software-pooled storage. If they ran vSAN on these servers, it would be hyper-converged. It's VMware running on servers connected to Nimble storage systems. "All converged systems are disaggregated," said Eric Slack, senior analyst at the Evaluator Group, based in Boulder, Colo. But its core architecture is more similar to Dell EMC VxBlock or NetApp FlexPod, which combine Cisco servers with storage arrays, than it is HCI appliances. The Nimble dHCi architecture is similar to products such as NetApp HCI and Datrium DVX, which bill themselves as HCI 2.0, because they allow compute and storage to scale independently. Nimble dHCI lacks the ability to provision storage through the hypervisor and a software-defined storage layer such as VMware vSAN and the Nutanix HCI software stack.
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