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

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 retentionpolicies, and backup reports, to automate and optimize their backup processes and operations.