HPE Composable Rack

Open hybrid cloud platform enabled by rack-scale composability that delivers a cloud experience on premises.

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TRANSFORM IT OPERATIONS WITH COMPOSABILITY

To deliver the scale, speed, and efficiency that business demands, IT needs to break free from the complexity and cost of legacy silos. With composability, IT can automate operations and deploy any workload on demand while shifting investment to power digital innovation.

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INNOVATIONS

DRIVE A CLOUD EXPERIENCE ON PREMISES

HPE Composable Rack—a composable rack-scale solution with built-in security—offers enhanced capabilities such as end-to-end automation, built-in AI operations, and an innovative fabric built for composable environments that’s ready to scale.

DRIVE A CLOUD EXPERIENCE ON PREMISES

HPE Composable Rack—a composable rack-scale solution with built-in security—offers enhanced capabilities such as end-to-end automation, built-in AI operations, and an innovative fabric built for composable environments that’s ready to scale.

Accelerate time to market

Dynamically scale with ease

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Transform your HPE ProLiant DL environment to composable infrastructure

Modernize your rack environment with composability

Accelerate time to market

Accelerate time to market

Automate IT operations to deliver apps and services faster and more efficiently.

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Dynamically scale with ease

Dynamically scale with ease

Compose and grow infrastructure on demand, and non-disruptively.

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Modernize and transform to focus on innovation.

Transform your HPE ProLiant DL environment to composable infrastructure

Transform your HPE ProLiant DL environment to composable infrastructure

Get composability while protecting your investments. Add HPE OneView with Composable Fabric integration to existing HPE ProLiant DL380/360/560 Gen10 servers.

Modernize your rack environment with composability

Modernize your rack environment with composability

Automated deployment, scale, and management for any workload—virtualized, containerized or bare metal.

Read the solution brief

NEW HPE COMPOSABLE CAPABILITIES PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION OF AN AUTONOMOUS DATA CENTER

HPE Composable Rack now available with HPE Primera, delivers agility, resiliency, and scale, enabling IT to rapidly stand up and scale private cloud environments.

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Capabilities

Rack-scale composability for any workload

Single rack-scale architecture with automated deployment, scale, and management for mixed workloads

Software-defined control

Automate infrastructure through template-driven processes and lifecycle management with policy enforcement

Software-defined fabric

Easily scale and automate the configuration of networking within a rack, between racks, and across data centers.

Intelligent data operations

System continuously learns, predicts and prevents problems before they occur

Open API

Easily integrate existing automation and orchestration tools to support DevOps, automation, and IT management initiatives.

Flexible composable platform

Multiple use cases and workloads within a single environment

HPE Composable Rack solutions

Bring together IT automation, AI-driven operations, and security in a solution that’s ready to scale. Get more choices across building blocks to compose any workload, any service, across any cloud—reducing cost and complexity.

PRIVATE CLOUD

HPE Composable Rack

Flexible deployment choices for rack-scale composability running mixed workloads on HPE ProLiant DL360/380/560 Gen10 servers.

Explore HPE Composable Rack

BENEFITS

Accelerate time to market

Automate IT operations to deliver apps and services faster and more efficiently.

Dynamically scale with ease

Compose and grow infrastructure on demand, and non-disruptively

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Modernize and transform to focus on innovation.

Infrastructure Management Software

HPE OneView

Integrated IT management that transforms compute, storage and networking into software-defined infrastructure to automate tasks and accelerate your business.

Benefits

68

Less unplanned downtime¹

63

Faster server deployment¹

46

Faster storage deployment¹

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Software defined networking fabric purpose-built for workload-driven performance and scale.

Benefits

Agility and scale

Friction-free scale supercharges your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market.

Adaptability and performance

Serve your applications better with the isolation of critical workloads to ensure exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower the admin to manage, provision and implement traffic from a single portal.

Tier 0 Storage

HPE Primera

The world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

Key benefits

93

less time needed*

Deploy, manage and scale storage more efficiently.²

100

availability guaranteed*

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack.³

122

faster Oracle performance*

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk.⁴

Hyperconverged systems

HPE SimpliVity

An enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up/restores VMs in seconds.

Learn more Buy now

Benefits

Built-in backup and disaster recovery

Eliminate the need for third-party data protection.

Game-changing data efficiency

An average data efficiency improvement of 52:1 across deployments.

True hyperconvergence

Hyperconverge the complete IT stack.

Tier 1 Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

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

Capabilities

99.9999

guaranteed availability*

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base.⁸

86

issue resolution*

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved.⁹

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array.¹⁰

All-flash storage

HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Tier 1 flash arrays that scale from midsized organisations to the largest enterprises for instant application provisioning and high level of service.

Capabilities

Flexible

Deploy highly configurable, scale-out storage for multi-tenant workloads.

Fast

Experience consistent mixed-workload performance – up to 3M IOPs.

Predictive

Anticipate and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack.

AI-driven operations

HPE InfoSight

Optimize performance and predict and prevent problems by adding AI-driven operations that combine cloud-based machine learning with performance monitoring.

86

of issues automatically predicted and resolved ¹

Uncover and proactively resolve issues, and prevent other systems deployed globally from experiencing the same problems.

85

less time managing problems ²

Take the guesswork out of managing infrastructure, and simplify planning by accurately predicting capacity, performance, and bandwidth needs.

54

of problems resolved are beyond storage ³

Leverage actionable data for performance tuning, security recommendations, and automatic people and parts dispatching.

IT Consumption

HPE GreenLake

An infrastructure service that offers on-demand capacity and planning, combining the agility and economics of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT.

Key Capabilities

Accelerate digital transformation

Gain flexibility and lower your total cost of ownership.

Get scalability and control

Proactively plan and realise bottom-line efficiencies with flexible capacity.

Increase cost efficiency

Pay for what you use based on metered usage and access self-service reporting.

Services

Data Center Care Services

A new agile, cloud-like IT model for data centre support that modernises your IT operations.

KEY BENEFITS

11

successful transformation engagements per year

25

of the brightest minds in IT, dedicated to your digital transformation

80

countries covering 30 languages, delivering global scale and expertise

PRIVATE CLOUD

HPE Composable Rack

Flexible deployment choices for rack-scale composability running mixed workloads on HPE ProLiant DL360/380/560 Gen10 servers.

Explore HPE Composable Rack

BENEFITS

Accelerate time to market

Automate IT operations to deliver apps and services faster and more efficiently.

Dynamically scale with ease

Compose and grow infrastructure on demand, and non-disruptively

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Modernize and transform to focus on innovation.

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Software defined networking fabric purpose-built for workload-driven performance and scale.

Benefits

Agility and scale

Friction-free scale supercharges your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market.

Adaptability and performance

Serve your applications better with the isolation of critical workloads to ensure exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower the admin to manage, provision and implement traffic from a single portal.

Tier 0 Storage

HPE Primera

The world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

Key benefits

93

less time needed*

Deploy, manage and scale storage more efficiently.²

100

availability guaranteed*

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack.³

122

faster Oracle performance*

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk.⁴

Hyperconverged systems

HPE SimpliVity

An enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up/restores VMs in seconds.

Learn more Buy now

Benefits

Built-in backup and disaster recovery

Eliminate the need for third-party data protection.

Game-changing data efficiency

An average data efficiency improvement of 52:1 across deployments.

True hyperconvergence

Hyperconverge the complete IT stack.

Tier 1 Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

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

Capabilities

99.9999

guaranteed availability*

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base.⁸

86

issue resolution*

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved.⁹

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array.¹⁰

All-flash storage

HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Tier 1 flash arrays that scale from midsized organisations to the largest enterprises for instant application provisioning and high level of service.

Capabilities

Flexible

Deploy highly configurable, scale-out storage for multi-tenant workloads.

Fast

Experience consistent mixed-workload performance – up to 3M IOPs.

Predictive

Anticipate and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack.

AI-driven operations

HPE InfoSight

Optimize performance and predict and prevent problems by adding AI-driven operations that combine cloud-based machine learning with performance monitoring.

86

of issues automatically predicted and resolved ¹

Uncover and proactively resolve issues, and prevent other systems deployed globally from experiencing the same problems.

85

less time managing problems ²

Take the guesswork out of managing infrastructure, and simplify planning by accurately predicting capacity, performance, and bandwidth needs.

54

of problems resolved are beyond storage ³

Leverage actionable data for performance tuning, security recommendations, and automatic people and parts dispatching.

IT Consumption

HPE GreenLake

An infrastructure service that offers on-demand capacity and planning, combining the agility and economics of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT.

Key Capabilities

Accelerate digital transformation

Gain flexibility and lower your total cost of ownership.

Get scalability and control

Proactively plan and realise bottom-line efficiencies with flexible capacity.

Increase cost efficiency

Pay for what you use based on metered usage and access self-service reporting.

HPE Composable Rack with VMware Cloud Foundation

Get an enterprise-ready, hybrid cloud solution that is flexible, easy to deploy, and seamless to manage.

Read the Guide for VCF

EXPLORE OUR COMPOSABLE PARTNER ECOSYSTEM

Reduce the time spent managing environments and accelerate time to value. Explore the HPE Composable Partner Program and build solutions that are interoperable with the Unified API.

Mesosphere

Integrates with OneView to simplify production container and data services deployment and scale-out.

OpenStack®

Enables users to provision bare-metal servers within OpenStack the same way as virtual machines.

Red Hat®

Enables ITOps and application dev teams to deliver applications faster via OpenShift integration.

SUSE®

Provides ease, agility, control, and speed in provisioning and deploying hardware and software.

CANCOM

Enable end-to-end automation to create an integrated workspace of hardware, software, and services.

Morpheus

Get end-to-end visibility and control of hybrid infrastructure for all your app deployments.

Micro Focus

Enable end-to-end automation and service-oriented management in traditional and hybrid cloud environments.

Ansible

Automate provisioning of physical infrastructure on demand with software-defined templates.

Chef Infrastructure

Automate the spinup and update of fluid resource pools using software-defined templates.

Docker

Bring containerization out of the cloud and onto your bare-metal infrastructure.

HashiCorp Terraform

Provides a common workflow to provision hybrid infrastructure and deploy applications

Puppet

Automate configuration and provisioning of bare-metal infrastructure to deliver apps and services.

SaltStack

Retrieve managed server inventories, automate bare-metal server provisioning, and deploy apps.

Arista

Automates the network provisioning between HPE OneView and Arista EOS.

Densify

Automate provisioning and enable predictive capacity management for workloads

F5

Attaches to OneView and underlying physical servers to perform real-time monitoring and response.

Harpa Italia

Provides threshold-based alarming and advanced data-analysis functions via McuboICT and Mcuboenergy.

MagicFlex

Provides network analysis for HPE CI and enhances OneView and VirtualConnect environments.

Microsoft

Integrate HPE ProLiant and HPE BladeSystem manageability features with Microsoft System Center.

ServiceNow

Streamline lifecycle operations for infrastructure and IT service management.

Turbonomic

Attaches to OneView and a hypervisor for automatable placement, sizing, and provisioning decisions.

VMware

Seamlessly integrate manageability features with VMware virtualization solutions.

Eaton

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager software links power and environmental monitoring to data center IT.

Nlyte Software

Nlyte integration with HPE OneView connects the modeled data center world to the real-time world.

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric develops connected technologies and solutions to manage energy and process.

AROUND HPE

Gartner recognises HPE (Aruba) again

Gartner positioned Aruba as a Leader in 2019 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure Report, furthest for vision completeness.

Read the Gartner report

Exascale computing by the numbers

Exascale computing enables discovery and innovation that will profoundly change how we live and work. Here are some resources and stats to get started.

Read the exascale article

An innovation war: Cybersecurity vs. cybercrime

AI and machine learning help make security technology increasingly sophisticated, but advances in the cybercriminal world are close behind.

Read the cybersecurity article

Fear no Cloud with HPE at Microsoft Ignite 2019

Find answers for your business challenges in 60+ theater sessions, great demos, and the Edge and Cloud Luncheon panel sessions. November 4–8, 2019, Orlando, FL.

Combat cyberattacks with hyperconverged infrastructure

Don't let your data be bullied. HCI with built-in data protection provides better protection from cyber criminals.

Gartner recognises HPE (Aruba) again

Gartner positioned Aruba as a leader in 2019 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure Report, and furthest for completeness of vision.

Read the Gartner report

Kronos sparks reinvention by trying to put itself out of business

Kronos, a global workforce management company, created an internal start-up to disrupt its business to enable its future to be as successful as its past.

Supercomputing leader Cray joins the HPE family

HPE, now with Cray, establishes the most comprehensive portfolio in high performance computing and artificial intelligence.

Your competition has a digital transformation plan. Do you?

New competitors arrive, scale and begin to take your market share so much faster today. To win, you need to toss out your old way of thinking.

Drone traffic jams and integrated air traffic control

Unmanned aircraft systems are making the skies crowded. But technology exists to monitor and manage these machines so that the skies stay friendly.

1,2,3 Based on HPE Nimble Storage’s installed base