OmniCube™ Features

VM Centricity

The SimpliVity OmniCube provides VM-centric Management in order to simplify deploying and managing the virtual infrastructure, so IT teams can now manage their VMs instead of the underlying infrastructure.

All analysis, reporting, actions and management tasks in the SimpliVity OmniCube are VM-centric to eliminate the disconnect that exists between vSphere and traditional storage arrays. This means all storage related policies, actions, and monitoring are accomplished on a per VM basis. This allows the virtual administrator to set a backup and replication policy for a virtual machine regardless of what datastore it resides in. It means a single VM can be migrated or failed over to another datacenter instead of having to move an entire datastore.   The SimpliVity vCenter plugin empowers the virtual admin to complete all of these tasks through a single user interface: the vSphere client.  The GUI allows for the view of a given VM, and all of its copies, across the globe including the Cloud.

OmniCube is fully compatible with VMware vSphere. All standard vSphere tools and operations including: vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, and cloning work exactly as expected. OmniCube is designed to be the industry’s best platform for vSphere.

Global Unified Management

Simplified, Elastic Scale Out

Global Deduplication and Compression

At the core of the OmniCube data architecture is an advanced real-time deduplication and compression engine.  As data is ingested or created within the system, it is deduplicated and compressed, and remains so throughout its lifecycle—within the node, across nodes in the data center, across data centers and to the Cloud.   The effect is that OmniCube only manages fine grain data elements within its architecture—this not only saves capacity within a given system, but fosters all of the core functionality required in today’s environment:  data mobility, intelligent use of flash media, infrastructure flexibility, and cloud integration. 

Public Cloud Integration

The Cloud is a significant part of the IT infrastructure today, and as such is a core attribute of OmniCube.  OmniCube makes the Cloud a seamless part of the Federation.  The Federation extends to include virtual OmniCube systems that run in the Public Cloud and participate in The Federation just like any other member. This allows a protection policy to move data to and from the cloud the same way it is moved between data centers.

Resource Pooling

At its core, the SimpliVity open federation is an elastic scalable pool of shared resources.  When an OmniCube joins a federation, all of its compute and storage resources are made available to the other OmniCube systems in the data center. The OmniCube systems can utilize resources across the federation, creating a powerful, yet elegantly simple virtualized data store. 

This elastic pool brings to life many of the core OmniCube features, including high availability, simplified scale out, and cache-accelerated performance. 

Bandwidth Efficient Replication for DR

This powerful but low cost DR solution allows IT teams to bring new levels of data protection to their applications, that have historically been too cost prohibitive to protect via remote replication. 

Cache Accelerated Performance

OmniCube comes pre-configured with several layers of caching media, which are used to deliver maximum IO performance to the demanding applications.  A key aspect of the underlying OmniStack technology is a series of intelligent algorithms that identify the “hot” data and place it within the caching media.  Moreover, OmniCube is extremely efficient in its use of this more expensive media given its management of fine grain globally deduped and compressed data elements.  The result is a lower cost system that delivers the IO performance required for the demanding datasets in the datacenter. 

Enterprise Table Stakes

OmniCube is designed to run the VMs and the applications that drive the business.  As such, it is the custodian and access point of the customers lifeblood—its data.  SimpliVity takes that role seriously and has delivered the core, baseline tablestakes functionality that the modern datacenter demands of an infrastructure solution.  This includes high availability with no single point of failure, multi-level protection of writes, extensive reporting, serviceability and diagnosis tools, alerting, and call home capabilities.  And all of this is backed by SimpliVity’s world class customer service and support offering, which includes 24x7x365 live support for calls and support tickets.