HPE GreenLake for General Purpose Storage
Reliable, cost-effective storage delivered on a pay-per-use basis.
Storage capacity for general-purpose workloads, delivered as a service
Data is at the heart of your business, so your storage infrastructure needs to have the performance, scale, agility, and efficiency to keep up with the demands of your enterprise. The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform offers Tier-2 storage configurations that provide reliable storage with great performance and good latency. Featuring cost-effective flash storage for your primary, secondary, and backup/data recovery workloads, these solutions are delivered on a pay-per-use basis, without the need for a large up-front capital expenditure. And HPE Financial Services can help you streamline the retirement process for your existing storage assets and recover value to help fund your transition to an as-a-service model.
Rapid deployment, with scalability on demand
Preconfigured options enable delivery in as little as 14 days to your on-premises or co-located data center, with scalability to add extra capacity ahead of business growth.
Managed for you
HPE delivers, installs, maintains, owns, and meters your storage infrastructure, and manages your capacity. You can also add full management services from HPE for a complete turnkey experience.
No overprovisioning risk
Your HPE GreenLake platform is designed to meet your current needs—with built-in buffer capacity to address any unexpected spikes in demand.
Real-time cost visibility
Get near-real time insight into your consumption and costs with the HPE GreenLake Central platform.
General purpose storage configurations
For workloads that do not require an all-flash solution, these HPE GreenLake platform configurations—based on HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays—offer reliable, cost-effective storage. These arrays are truly adaptive—designed for both primary and secondary flash workloads. The flash-enhanced architecture is combined with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics for fast, reliable access to data and 99.9999% measured availability. HPE InfoSight:
- Predicts and prevents issues across the entire stack
- Defends against storage and site failures for business continuity
- Extends app-aware data production to the cloud
- Protects SLAs with quality of service (QoS)
We offer three tiers of general-purpose storage configurations, designed to suit different business requirements.
Balanced
Intended for mixed, general, or non-mission critical production workloads with higher performance and capacity requirements. Ranges from 307 TB to 924 TB usable storage. HPE Nimble HF40 adaptive, dual controller array providing up to 220,000 IO/s using 16GB fiber channel host connectivity in HPE 42U G2 Enterprise Shock Rack.
Compare HPE GreenLake for storage configuration
Configuration | Mission Critical | Business Critical | General Purpose | Data protection |
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Who is this recommended for? | Businesses running mission critical, low latency, and high-availability workloads with high performance requirements, extreme latency sensitivity, and need resiliency for 100% availability | Businesses running business critical applications, medium-scale databases, mixed workloads, and/or virtual machine farms | Businesses running general-purpose applications, mixed workloads, disaster recovery, and backup data for development, testing, quality assurance, or analytics | For businesses that need rapid backup and recovery on premises |
Technology and capacity | HPE Primera all flash:
| HPE Nimble All Flash:
| HPE Nimble Adaptive Flash:
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How is usage measured? | Per GiB | Per GB | Per GB | Per GB |
Additional services | Generally, it is more complex due to dynamic adjustments | HPE GreenLake Management Services | HPE GreenLake Management Services | HPE GreenLake Management Services |
See how HPE GreenLake works
Complete your hybrid cloud by implementing a unified cloud operating model across all your workloads and data with HPE GreenLake. These guided, hands-on demos let you experience some of the platform’s key capabilities.