Future Proof Your Storage

Ultima have developed into one of the UK's leading intelligent infrastructure, cloud
and automation companies, focused on the provision of tailored IT solutions and services.
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Flexibility of converged. Simplicity of HCI.

Accelerate your time to market, end firefighting and optimise everything with an intelligent platform designed for the unpredictable.


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Scale Compute and Storage Independently

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI (disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure) provides the flexibility to scale storage and compute independently, making it ideal for mission-critical data bases and data warehouses. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is a Converged System built on HPE Infosight and integrated VM management which makes it simple to manage and can scale rack-to-apps in minutes.

Powered by HPE InfoSight, it provides self-optimising performance, predictive support automation and problem prevention. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is a fast, resilient platform that delivers sub-millisecond latency and six-nines (99.9999%) measured availability.

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POWERING HPE NIMBLE STORAGE DHCI

As the industry’s only intelligent cloud for virtual machines, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is powered by AI-driven intelligence and built on
industry-leading servers, storage, and networking solutions.

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HPE InfoSight

HPE Nimble Storage

HPE ProLiant DL

Self manage & optimise your IT, reducing
operating costs by up to 79%, while predicting & preventing 86% of problems before you notice them.

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Radically simplify operations with powerful
predictive analytics. Deploy workloads on flash
arrays, converged infrastructure and public cloud.

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Take a look at HPE's secure and versatile rack-optimised servers with a balance of performance, capacity, and manageability.

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Cloud physics

CloudPhysics is a SaaS-based Big Data analytics platform for virtualised infrastructures that provides data-driven insights to improve
IT performance, ROI, and data protection through analysis of IT metadata. CloudPhysics is a resource which provides a single pane of
glass through which multiple customer environments can be viewed and assessed in great detail. It far exceeds the capabilities of mainstream
analysis tools because it gathers full-resolution metadata continuously – compensating for changes to infrastructure and workload placement
and creating a source of truth for proposals.


The platform correlates various sources of data and uses advanced analytics and modelling to generate high-impact pre-templated assessment
reports. With CloudPhysics, you will dramatically improve your understanding of your current IT environment, clearly identify performance bottlenecks
and end-of-life hardware in need of refresh; and dramatically accelerate your sales process.

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Cloud Physics Security FAQ

CloudPhysics collects data from your environment using a virtual appliance called the CloudPhysics Observer. This virtual appliance is a minimum resource appliance designed to collect data from within your VMware vCenter and cloud environment through read-only APIs, process the data, and share the data to CloudPhysics through secure means.


Additional levels of data collection are available with elevated privileges for guest process discovery using VMware Tools APIs and limited guest credentials at the discretion of the vSphere Admin.

The virtual appliance requires the following resources:

8GB of RAM, 2 Virtual CPUs, and 20GB of disk space when deployed. Total network traffic resources will be approximately 5MB per hour per 100 VMs in the data centre. The CloudPhysics observer will also require internet access to send collected data to the public cloud through an encrypted connection to the internet domain entanglement.cloudphysics.com. These communications will occur on Port 443.

The Virtual Appliance must be on a network LAN segment that has access to VMware vCenter for VMware vSphere data collection. Data collection for cloud providers will be conducted directly from CloudPhysics to the public cloud through published APIs.

CloudPhysics does not deploy any probes or agents to VMware ESXi Hosts or any guest OS. All communications are achieved through existing management interfaces and results in no additional load to the host environment.

CloudPhysics can take advantage of VMware Tools to collect process details within a guest if already deployed but is not required for infrastructure data collection.

CloudPhysics Observer collects data from VMware vCenter and cloud providers by public APIs. For VMware vCenter, CloudPhysics collects performance, configuration, and other metadata from the VMware vCenter on a defined schedule.

Natively, vCenter collects performance and configuration data from its managed resources on a 20-second granularity. This data is typically rolled-up and destroyed once data is an hour old by vCenter. Before data is rolled-up and destroyed, CloudPhysics collects this performance and configuration data frequently enough directly from vCenter to maintain the 20-second granularity.

This data collection process is agentless and has no impact on the VMs or hosts being analyzed since it already exists in vCenter. For cloud providers, CloudPhysics collects configuration and performance history data from the public APIs once per day. For VMware vCenter, CloudPhysics requires a Read-Only account with access to list and read configurations of the virtual environment.

Infrastructure Configuration Data
This data describes either the virtual data centre or the cloud environment under observation by CloudPhysics. This data defines the environment to be monitored including the vCenter and its configurations as well as the resources consumed by the systems and resources under management by vCenter.

This data does not include network topology or data to recreate the network architecture. For VMware vCenter v4.0 and above, this data will consist of vCenter details, data centre details, VM details, host details, virtual domain details, data-store details, network port details, virtual network details, and resource group details.

Performance Data
This data will consist of CPU, Storage, Network, and RAM usage details. Utilisation, peak performance, bandwidth, and characteristics of these will all make up the performance data. CloudPhysics will also generate derivatives of this data for averages, means, 99th Percentile, and 95th Percentiles.

Event and Task Data
Event and Task data provides a view of major events and scheduled services in the environment such as resources starting and stopping, vMotions, and environmental changes. These events and tasks often include the event, a brief description, and the associated service or username that initiated the event.

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