Watch this Ask the Expert session to learn how you can bring the cloud experience to where your data lives.
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You will learn how:
SAS Viya can be deployed in either bare-metal or virtualized fashion.
SAS CAS and Compute benchmarks have performed on the HPE solution.
The HPE GreenLake design brings the cloud experience to your data: at the edge, on-premises, or co-location.
HPE offers managed services for the platform as well as the infrastructure in a pay-as-you-go model.
The questions from the Q&A segment held at the end of the webinar are listed below and the slides from the webinar are attached.
Q&A
What kind of DR capabilities does HPE GreenLake storage offer here?
HPE storage and especially the HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP (new brand name: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000) offers a lot of capabilities in terms of disaster recovery. We have something called as remote copy, which offers replication from one storage array to another. And you could do this replication both in a synchronous as well as in asynchronous fashion. Then we have something called as Peer Persistence. Here we have two storage arrays in an active-active setup presented to the same SAS Viya layer and both of them act as the active IO path for SAS Viya. If one array goes down, it is totally a seamless failover for the application and the other storage array can keep taking the I/O. This offers a decent level of disaster recovery. And then I would say it depends on the RPO and RTO requirements of a particular customer and we can tune these features and capabilities accordingly. Additionally, HPE is working with market leading cyber resilience ISVs like Commvault and Veeam to create holistic backup and restore workflows for SAS Viya running on HPE GreenLake.
Is this solution offered in a traditional purchase model as well along with pay-as-you-go?
Yes, we can offer this solution in a traditional way i.e. upfront payment for the entire infrastructure and also in a more consumption-based model with variable payment. Each offering has different advantages when it comes to cash flow, the influence on assets management for example. The services capabilities that we were talking about are available in both options. So, you can have the traditional way with the management services, the same way you can have that with the pay-as-you-go.
Does HPE offer capabilities to manage the Red Hat components in this solution? And what about SAS Viya, can that be managed by HPE as well?
The answer is yes. We offer three options for management. First, you manage the entire stack yourself. Second, we manage the infrastructure only. And third we offer the management of the infrastructure and the platform and that will include the Red Hat OpenShift layers. At the moment, SAS Viya is out of scope. There are SAS partners that can take the management of that. We are working with distributors and partners to have that communication if a customer doesn't want it managed all the way up. It just would not be through HPE.
Do we have any published material/ link which can be shared with customers?
We absolutely do on that resource page. All those links are publicly available.
Recommended Resources
SAS Viya on HPE and Red Hat OpenShift technical paper
Deploying SAS Viya on HPE GreenLake and Red Hat OpenShift blog
Solution brief: HPE GreenLake Flex Solution for SAS Viya
Video: Why SAS Viya on HPE GreenLake?
Video: SAS Viya on HPE GreenLake: Architecture, sizing & configuration
Video: SAS Viya on HPE GreenLake: Performance
Blog: Modernize confidently to SAS® Viya® with HPE GreenLake Flex Solution
Please see additional resources in the attached slide deck.
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