HPE Superdome Flex Servers

Modular compute platforms that power critical applications, accelerate analytics, and tackle HPC and AI workloads holistically.

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AS-A-SERVICE BUILDING BLOCK FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Handle SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, and Epic user demand while delivering real-time analytics. Comb through massive IoT and AI datasets at the edge or in the core. And tackle complex problems holistically as a standalone HPC workhorse or within petascale clusters. HPE Superdome Flex servers will help you extract value from all your data and grow cost-efficiently with its modular, building-block architecture.

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INNOVATIONS

SCALE UP COMPUTE BREAKTHROUGH THAT SUPPORTS YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH FROM EDGE TO CORE

Extract value from vast amounts of data, modernize applications and accelerate innovation with a compute breakthrough delivering an unmatched combination of scalability, performance, reliability, and security for enterprise environments of any size.

SCALE UP COMPUTE BREAKTHROUGH THAT SUPPORTS YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH FROM EDGE TO CORE

Extract value from vast amounts of data, modernize applications and accelerate innovation with a compute breakthrough delivering an unmatched combination of scalability, performance, reliability, and security for enterprise environments of any size.

Grow your system cost efficiently

Power critical apps and data with optimum flexibility

Guard against downtime with extreme RAS

Protect against firmware attacks and malware

Realize your digital transformation

Grow your system cost efficiently

Grow your system cost efficiently

Start small and grow seamlessly as the demands of your business evolve by using a modular design. Superdome Flex starts at 4 and scales up to 32 sockets in 4-socket increments. Superdome Flex 280 starts at 2 and scales up to 8 sockets in 2-socket increments.

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Power critical apps and data with optimum flexibility

Power critical apps and data with optimum flexibility

Leverage a cost-efficient entry point for mission-critical workloads at 4 sockets, and scale up to 32 socket—avoiding overprovisioning—with a choice of economical Gold or high-end Platinum Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

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Guard against downtime with extreme RAS

Guard against downtime with extreme RAS

Discover innovative reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features in HPE Superdome Flex that simply don’t exist in other x86 server platforms.

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Protect against firmware attacks and malware

Protect against firmware attacks and malware

Minimize threat exposure to vulnerabilities, including those found in common firmware. Silicon root of trust protection has been added to HPE Superdome Flex 280.

Realize your digital transformation

Realize your digital transformation

Learn how HPE is expanding the HPE Superdome Flex server line to accelerate your transformation vision.

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MISSION-CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE DATA-DRIVEN ENTERPRISE

Data is at the core of the modern enterprise, regardless of size, industry, or customer type. Find out why IDC believes that modular, flexible x86-based `servers are ideal for mission-critical workloads in data-driven enterprises.

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DEMANDING ENTERPRISE, HPC, AND AI ENVIRONMENTS

Industry-leading versatile, flexible, and scalable solutions for your critical SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA workloads.

A better approach for powering Oracle Database that meets increasing performance demands while reducing license costs and infrastructure complexity.

HPE shared memory for high performance computing

Scale-up mission-critical SQL server workloads to increase performance, ensure availability, and lower the cost of your SQL environment.

Enterprise-grade AI and advanced analytics at the edge, in the cloud, and on premises that unlocks your data, now and into the future.

High-performance computing products and expertise that make supercomputing more accessible and affordable for organizations and industries of all size.

Faster response and around-the-clock availability for Epic healthcare environments.

BREAKTHROUGH SERVERS FOR DIVERSE, DATA-INTENSIVE AND CONVERGING WORKLOADS

Here’s the full portfolio of Superdome Flex products and solutions with the software, services, and support to help you scale your business and turn your data into insights.

Servers

HPE Superdome Flex 280

Highly scalable, reliable, and secure server that scales from 2 to 8 processors as a single system. Designed to deliver 64 GB – 24 TB of shared memory using DRAM only or in combination with persistent memory.

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FEATURES

Modular scalability

2 – 8 sockets, 3^rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.

Fast I/O

Up to: 32 PCIe 3.0 cards, 20 SAS/SATA/NVMe drives, 16 GPUs

Extreme RAS and security

Self-healing, advanced memory, and I/O resiliency, silicon root of trust.

Servers

HPE Superdome Flex

Uniquely modular, highly flexible, and reliable platform that scales from 4 to 32 processors as a single system and delivers 768 GB to 48 TB of shared memory.

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FEATURES

Outpace evolving data demands

Scale up your environment with 4-socket modular, customizable building blocks.

Process and analyze growing data at extraordinary speed

Achieve breakthrough performance at any scale.

Safeguard your mission-critical workloads

Contain errors at the firmware layer, predict faults and self-repair.

Software

HPE Serviceguard for Linux

A high availability and disaster recovery clustering solution that increases uptime for your critical applications by protecting them from faults across physical or virtual environments over any distance.

Features

Fast failover

Fast failover in the event of a failure, in as little as 4 seconds without comprising on data integrity.Failover%20recovery%20observed%20in%20Hewlett%20Packard%20Enterprise%20internal%20lab%20testing.%20The%20system%20was%20based%20on%20an%20HPE%20ProLiant%20DL560%20Gen10%20Server%20with%20Red%20Hat%C2%AE%20Enterprise%20Linux%207.3%20running%20HPE%20Serviceguard%2012.10.00%20Configuration%20dependent%2C%20excluding%20cluster%20reformation%20time.

Near zero downtime maintenance

Rolling upgrades of infrastructure components, OS, and apps reduces downtime.

Easy administration

Visually configure, monitor, and manage a cluster and its components.

IT transformation

HPE Digital Transformation Services

Collecting data is only the first half of the challenge—knowing what to do with it is the other. Get expert advice and implementation to take your digital enterprise to the next level.

Features

Adaptability

Transform IT operations and technology platforms to drive adaptability.

Speed

Optimize workloads across clouds to gain speed for business.

Simplicity

Simplify operations and create financial flexibility and market growth by consuming IT.

Services

HPE Operational Support Services

Remove complexity and respond rapidly to business demands. HPE Operational Support Services will help you manage the day-to-day IT operational tasks and keep your business ahead of the competition.

Benefits

Simplify with one point of contact

Easily manage multi-vendor hybrid IT environments through a single service provider. HPE Pointnext experts provide 24x7 support coverage for all of your infrastructure and applications.

Improve operational automation and efficiency

Free time and money for innovation by improving the quality and efficiency of your IT operations at a lower cost.

Reduce unplanned outages

Keep your business up and running. HPE Pointnext experts know your environment and will help you decrease the risk of unplanned outages.

IT transformation

HPE solutions for SAP HANA

Accelerate your business with an in-memory database platform. It will help you extract meaningful insights from your business data, and give you a 360-degree view of your business.

Benefits

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HPE has deployed more SAP HANA servers than the next three vendors combined.

9,500

Over 9,500 HPE SAP experts manage over 2,000 data centers for SAP customers.Internal%20Hewlett%20Packard%20Enterprise%20customer%20data

1,000s

HPE has thousands SAP HANA customers.

IT transformation

HPE solutions for Oracle

Optimize your Oracle environment, reduce complexity, and dramatically increase performance by using server, storage, services, and networking infrastructure engineered for the highest levels of availability.

Servers

HPE Superdome Flex 280

Highly scalable, reliable, and secure server that scales from 2 to 8 processors as a single system. Designed to deliver 64 GB – 24 TB of shared memory using DRAM only or in combination with persistent memory.

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Succes in action

Mandiri Tunas Finance (MTF) - Empowering people to move

PT Mandiri Tunas Finance is a vehicle financing company that’s making mobility more accessible to more Indonesians across the archipelago. After transforming its digital platform, applying for a loan is now simple, fast, and convenient.

Challenge

MTF was struggling with the performance of legacy infrastructure and needed to accelerate data processing to facilitate data-driven decision-making and transition to a paperless loan application process

Solution

Scale confidently with an enterprise partner to manage large and demanding workloads

“The end-of-day processing time is 8 times better right now. The usual 4-hour processing time has been cut down to just 30 minutes."

William Francis, Head of IT, Strategy & Human Capital, Mandiri Tunas Finance

Result

MTF end-of-day processing is 8x faster and loan approval process is accelerated from 2 days down to four hours.

Solution Recipe

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Reference Guide

Reference Guide

HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage

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Reference Guide

Reference Guide

HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle Database 19c On HPE Superdome Flex 280 with HPE Primera

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Technical White Paper

Technical White Paper

HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server Architecture and RAS technical white paper

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Your as-a-service building block for digital transformation

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