Extending the data center into the cloud to ensure business continuity has gotten a whole lot easier. By combining the simple, scalable, and highly available infrastructure of a hyperconverged private cloud with the elasticity of Google Cloud Platform, Scale Computing and Google have re-imagined hybrid cloud for backup and disaster recovery.
Hyperconverged Private Cloud
For on-premises infrastructure, no solution is easier to implement and manage than Scale Computing Platform. Software and appliances join together seamlessly to create a scalable, highly available virtualization platform. The automated management of server resources and storage means that the management interface is as simple (or simpler) than any public or private cloud environment. The ease of implementation and management not only provides a reliable, high-performance, local infrastructure but also reduces the cost of ownership over traditional virtualization and private cloud solutions.
Google Cloud Platform
Using nested virtualization, Scale Computing can run a fully virtualized appliance within the Google Cloud. Just like a physical node, this virtual appliance is able to act as a target for the built-in replication feature, as well as run virtual machines when needed for recovery. And because it’s the same Scale Computing HyperCore software, it is managed using the same automation and management features of SC//HyperCore on-premises.
Disaster Recovery for SC//Platform Cloud Unity
As a service, on-premises SC//HyperCore virtual machines are replicated to the cloud over a secure network connection. Using a passive SC//HyperCore instance on Google Cloud Platform, VMs are kept in a passive, low- resource state until needed for failover. When a disaster is declared, the SC//HyperCore instance is expanded with more compute resources and VMs are failed over. The built-in Layer 2 (L2) network tunnel allows users to easily reconnect across the same LAN connections to the VMs now running in the cloud. When on-premises assets are brought back online, replication and recovery to the on-premises infrastructure are virtually seamless.