Why upgrade from USX™ to Hive Fabric™?

By: Greg Dietrich, Solution Architect – HiveIO Inc.

HiveIO USX continues to be a valuable asset for many organizations globally. It provides primary storage for Virtual Server (VSI) and Desktop (VDI) environments. As the original all-software SDS platform, USX introduced a new concept. It allowed customers to create an optimized storage infrastructure. This leveraged any storage resource within their environment. USX transformed storage platforms with its unique ability to provide exceptional deduplication while continuing to accelerate IO performance. This evolution now culminates in Hive Fabric, setting a new standard for software-defined data centers (SDDC).

USX supported various storage types, including:

  • Shared SAN/NAS
  • Local standalone disks
  • Direct attached storage
  • RAM as primary storage
  • Local disks as hyperconverged storage

As significant as USX technology is, we continuously work to improve its architecture. This enhances an already great platform. Just as USX served as an upgrade to enhance the flagship ILIO platform, Hive Fabric serves as the upgrade for USX. This next-generation platform maintains USX’s technical superiority. It also builds on capabilities that define the next Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC).

Hive Fabric™: The SDDC Building Block

Hive Fabric has a building block architecture. It extends beyond the capabilities of ILIO and USX. It continues to incorporate features that established them as industry-standard platforms for VDI and VSI. Hive Fabric provides additional functionality. This further optimizes your data center in a simple, low-cost model.

Hive Fabric for SDDC includes a comprehensive suite of features:

  • Software Defined Storage (SDS)
  • Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) capabilities
  • Full support for VDI and VSI VMs
  • Cluster Resource Scheduler (CRS)
  • Cluster HA (High Availability) services
  • Storage acceleration using RAM
  • Deduplication and compression
  • Shared storage functionality
  • Block storage support
  • An optimized operational cost model
  • The ability to augment current infrastructure or deploy Green Field

Hive Fabric™ Deployment Models: Flexibility for Your SDDC Needs

Leveraging the same RAM, Disk, and Network resources, Hive Fabric fulfills a wide range of deployment scenarios. These are familiar to our ILIO and USX customers. It also paves the way for the next-generation data center. Use any of the delivery approaches below. Leverage all or part of the technology to suit your specific needs for Hive Fabric SDDC deployments.

Bare Metal Fabric

Harness the power of Hive Fabric on bare metal. This allows Fabric to manage the underlying resources. It provides the ultimate VDI/VSI platform in a single, easy-to-use solution. Hive Fabric provides an impressive list of functionalities. These include the bare metal hypervisor and guest orchestration, shared storage presentation, and Cluster Resource Scheduler to balance workloads. It also offers full REST API and Message Bus for monitoring. Delivering this elaborate technology in a single installation behind a single user interface, without the bloat of separate management platforms, continues to put Hive Fabric at the forefront of SDDC solutions.

Virtualized Fabric

Hive Fabric will run on top of your current hypervisor. You can choose which features make sense for your environment. Use it as a RAM disk for VDI acceleration, or as an SDS platform for shared storage in an existing environment. You can even take the entire Hive Fabric platform on a road test, provisioning and brokering guest desktops or supporting a virtualized server environment.

Managed Fabric

Further simplify the management of your entire VSI or VDI environment. Do this by moving to a managed service provider leveraging the power of Hive Fabric. Let any of our partners remove concerns over IT upgrades, management, or operations. This further reduces your entire IT budget to a simple per-VM (VDI or VSI) per-month OPEX model.

Choosing Hive Fabric™ for Your Next-Gen SDDCHiveIO is committed to creating a simplistic approach to the next evolution of the data center. We focus on an intelligent event- and alert-driven management paradigm. Let Fabric decide on the right resources to leverage. This ensures a resilient and scalable platform. Choose Hive Fabric for a truly transformative SDDC experience.

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