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Copy SimpliVity Backups to another SimpliVity Cluster

April 3, 2017 Hersey 0 Comments backups, OmniStack, powershell, REST API

I put together a powershell script which uses the SimpliVity REST API to automate copying backups across OmniStack Clusters.

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Locating SimpliVity Manual Backups

December 22, 2016 Hersey 0 Comments backups, data protection, policy, powershell, REST API, SimpliVity

Policy based SimpliVity backups have a retention period defined in the backup policy. When the retention period expires the backup is removed from the system. When a Manual SimpliVity Backup is taken, no retention period is set and the backup will never expire. This post provides some details on how to locate Manual SimpliVity Backups using the vSphere Web Client or the SimpliVity REST API.

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SimpliVity Effective Storage Capacity

May 16, 2016 Hersey 3 Comments backups, capacity, compression, data, deduplication, DVP, SimpliVity

The SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes all data, at inception, once and forever, globally. When sizing a SimpliVity environment we take into account the capacity efficiency provided by the SimpliVity DVP, the effective capacity.