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

Modernise 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

Modernise 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.

Modernise your rack environment with composability

Modernise your rack environment with composability

Automated deployment, scale and management for any workload – virtualised, containerised or bare metal.

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BUSINESS IMPACT OF ENABLING CLOUDLIKE EFFICIENCY WITH COMPOSABILITY

Read why 451 Research thinks HPE Composable Rack provides an efficient, autonomous, highly scalable private cloud on-premises

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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 centres.

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

Technical Videos

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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 supported HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 rack 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

Modernise 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.

Capabilities

Transform to software-defined automation

Compose for any workload

Connect from core to cloud

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 apps ¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

Benefits

93

less time needed ²

Deploy, manage and scale storage more efficiently. ³

100

availability guaranteed ⁴

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack. ⁵

122

faster Oracle performance ⁶

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk. ⁷

Hyperconverged systems

HPE SimpliVity

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

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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 ⁸

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base. ⁹

86

issue resolution ¹⁰

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved. ¹¹

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array. ¹²

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

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

CAPABILITIES

86

of issues automatically predicted and resolved ¹³

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

85

less time managing problems ¹⁴

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 ¹⁵

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.

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 supported HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 rack 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

Modernise 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 apps ¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

Benefits

93

less time needed ²

Deploy, manage and scale storage more efficiently. ³

100

availability guaranteed ⁴

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack. ⁵

122

faster Oracle performance ⁶

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk. ⁷

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 ⁸

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base. ⁹

86

issue resolution ¹⁰

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved. ¹¹

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array. ¹²

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

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

CAPABILITIES

86

of issues automatically predicted and resolved ¹³

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

85

less time managing problems ¹⁴

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 ¹⁵

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.

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.

TAKE HPE COMPOSABLE RACK FOR A TEST DRIVE

Learn how rack-scale composability delivers a cloud experience on premises in this new interactive demonstration.

Try the Composable Rack demonstration

EXPLORE OUR COMPOSABLE PARTNER ECOSYSTEM

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

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 containerisation 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.

Arista

Automates the network provisioning between HPE OneView and Arista EOS.

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 virtualisation solutions.

Eaton

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

Schneider Electric

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

ABB

ABB power management systems enable enterprises to dynamically optimise datacentre demand and power supply.

Prometheus

An end to end platform which enables monitoring of existing hardware, container apps and virtualisations.

Grafana

An end to end platform which enables monitoring of existing hardware, container apps and virtualisations.

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1 HPE Storage Substantiation
2,4,6,8,10 Up to
3 Based on HPE internal testing of a leading Tier-1 storage system versus HPE Primera
5 HPE 100% Availability Guarantee
7 Based on HPE internal testing, compared to HPE 3PAR 8450, April 2019
9 "HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage", September 2017
11 HPE Business White paper "Redefining the standard for system availability", August 2017
12 HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays brochure
13,14,15 Based on HPE Nimble Storage’s installed base