Software-Defined Storage For Large VMware Environments

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Hedvig is software-defined storage

Standard Serverswith HDDs, SSDs Software Hedvig Distributed

Storage Platform

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Software decoupled from commodity

hardware

1Distributed systems

engine with app-focused storage policies

2Automated and

API-driven

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Hedvig is aunique storage architecture

VMware vSphere hosts

Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform

VM VM VM VM VMVM

Datacenter #1 Datacenter #2 Public cloud

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Hedvig is a hyperscale approach to software-defined storage

Unique two-tier architecture:Enables independent scaling of application and storage tiers

Any compute, any scale Connects any OS, hypervisor, or container

Modern programmable infrastructure:Automates and integrates with all common virtualization & cloud tools

Application servers

Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform

VM VM App App

Datacenter #1 Datacenter #2 Public cloud

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Tune storage and HA capabilities for each VM,

container, or app

The Hedvig Virtual Disk

Size Disk type Residence Replication factor DR policy Compression Deduplication Caching

With Hedvig you can . . .

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Disaster Recovery Sites

Extend vSphere Metro Storage Clusters to 3 or more sites

Single Hedvig storage cluster, active in all locations

VMware Stretched Cluster

VM VM VM VM VM VM

Data Center A Data Center B

VM

Data Center D

VM

Data Center C

With Hedvig you can . . .

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Flexible architectures to align with your workloads

HyperscaleScale compute &

storage independently

Deploy an elastic storage cluster using standard servers

HyperconvergedScale compute &storage together

Deliver app compute & storage in a single node

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Deployment Options

Apps and storage software together on

same nodes

Hyperconverged

App nodes with storage proxies

Storage service nodes

Hyperscale

App nodes

Storage service nodes

Hyperscale

Storage proxy nodes

With Hedvig you can . . .

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Single Hedvig storage cluster, active across private and

public cloudsVM VM VM

Data Center A

VM

VM

Extend storage across private and public clouds

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. . . and manage it all from within vSphere Web Client

Learn more at:hedviginc.com/vmware