backups – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

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

December 22, 2016 Hersey

Locating SimpliVity Manual Backups

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.

SimpliVity Storage vHersey

May 16, 2016 Hersey

SimpliVity Effective Storage Capacity

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.