| Cloud-adjacent, scale-out, future-proof compute, dedicated and privately managed, completely on your terms. |
SecureCloud HCI on Equinix Metal combines Oncore's powerful, private virtualization platform based on the proven, cloud-scale KVM hypervisor with the extensibility of Equinix's Cloud-Adjacent Metal Platform. Equinix Metal delivers digital infrastructure in line with your organization's cloud data path on flexible terms or month-to-month.
- Equinix Metal provides on-demand, highly available, cloud-adjacent compute infrastructure;
- The Oncore SecureCloud HCI Platform delivers our industry-proven KVM hypervisor that aggregates Equinix Metal resources into a highly resilient cluster (CPU, Memory and Storage), all fully managed and turn key for your organization's consumption. All SecureCloud HCI managed infrastructure includes UniversalEdge interconnection and data protection services for all SecureCloud HCI deployed workloads.
Organizations adopting SecureCloud HCI on Equinx Metal realize 40-70% (most average 54%) savings compared with other enterprise and cloud platforms. SecureCloud HCI reduces complexity, accelerates digital transformation, and modernizes your hybrid enterprise computing platform.
Secure Cloud HCI Clusters feature:
- Current generation x86-64 Intel or AMD multi-core compute;
- Scaleable memory;
- Built-in elastic all-flash block storage;
- High Availability, Resource Scheduling, Fault Tolerance;
- Hypervisor-level firewall and micro-segmentation;
- UniversalEdge (Internet, Internet Exchange peering, Equinix Fabric Access, managed Security Perimeter);
- Included Data Protection for all cluster-deployed workloads and data;
- Available DR configurations and multi-site data replication
- Available replication to a tertiary Equinix IBX metro or cloud storage.
Use Cases
- Hybrid Cloud Adjacency;
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Production Enterprise Services;
- Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity;
- Development Environments;
- Regulatory / compliance-sensitive data sets;
- Latency-sensitive workloads;
- Single-instance, multi-cloud attached private compute;
Benefits
- Elastic scale-out / in capacity;
- Rapid provisioning;
- DevOps Ready – Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc;
- Included data protection for all deployed workloads (backup interval – every 15 min - 24 hrs - workload dependant) with ransomware-resilient capabilities, including customer-directed encryption;
- Native integration with cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle;
- Easy migration / onboarding – run existing VMDKs, QCOW2 or RAW disk images;
- Available Data Stream migration appliance.
Tech Details
The Solution
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On-premises customer environment, offices, data center, etc. |
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Private interconnection – Equinix Fabric, Data Center Cross Connect, Private Circuit. |
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Oncore UniversalEdge - managed network. security and interconnection platform. UniversalEdge includes a managed (extensible) security perimeter, optimized upstream Internet, as well as managed Equinix Fabric and Interconnection services. |
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Oncore SecureCloud HCI on Equinix Metal. SecureCloud HCI is a cloud-scale, hyper-converged KVM hypervisor and computing platform aggregating Equinix Metal hardware resources into an extensible enterprise computing platform. SecureCloud HCI compute clusters are compatible with VMware VMDK, HyperV VHD(X), QCOW2 and RAW disk images. |
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All SecureCloud HCI clusters come standard with the UniversalEdge Data Protection Platform for all cluster-deployed workloads and resources. UniversalEdge Data Protection provides enterprise backup and recovery services featuring configurable protection intervals ranging from 15 minutes to 24 hours (workload-dependent) and geo-replication options. The Data Protection Platform can help mitigate and recover from ransomware events by delivering continuous protection for all SecureCloud HCI deployed workloads with configurable retention and recovery point intervals. |
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UniversalEdge delivers extensible managed interconnection services - Cloud Exchange, Equinix Fabric, optimized upstream Internet, in-market Internet Exchange peering, as well as traditional cross-connections and carrier circuits. |
How it works
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Fully managed SecureCloud HCI on Equinix Metal delivers elastic compute leveraging current-generation hardware, all-flash primary storage, and software-defined networking. SecureCloud is available across all Oncore Cloud Adjacent Platform serviced metros, supporting fault-tolerant, geographically redundant, high-availability scenarios. |
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The Oncore Data Protection Platform captures continuous incremental backups of SecureCloud HCI deployed workloads. Backup intervals are configurable from 15 min - 24 hr intervals and feature customer-defined data encryption controls. Multiple recovery points and flexible retention options provide recovery snapshots, helping mitigate ransomware attack scenarios. All protected data is securely stored within Equinix IBX facilities. |
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The Oncore Data Protection Platform features configurable replication, including intervals and available secondary metros. All protected data is securely replicated between Equinix IBX facilities. |
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UniversalEdge delivers standard interconnection to your organization's SecureCloud HCI on Equinix Metal Environment. Standard interconnections include On-net Cloud Exchange and Equinix Fabric access, optimized upstream Internet and in-metro Internet Exchange Peering, configurable optional managed cross connections and traditional carrier circuits. |
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Oncore's exclusive Complete Path Monitoring ensures transparent, real-time visibility of your services and uptime of vital resources and interconnection. Complete Path Monitoring, by default, provides visibility of all Oncore services, including +/- 1 hop into customer-premise and cloud provider environments. |
