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, modernise 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, modernise 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

Realise 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 sockets – 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

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

Realise your digital transformation

Realise 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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What’s New

HPE starts shipping new as-a-service building block for digital transformation

30 November 2020 HPE Superdome Flex 280 server will 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 an HPC workhorse. Get breakthrough performance, extreme reliability and superior security for your demanding workloads.

What’s New

HPE starts shipping new as-a-service building block for digital transformation

30 November 2020 HPE Superdome Flex 280 server will 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 an HPC workhorse. Get breakthrough performance, extreme reliability and superior security for your demanding workloads.

The value of HPE Superdome Flex through the lens of customers

Scale up – and up – with SAP HANA® and persistent memory

07 October 2019

Modernise and save: move from proprietary to standards to lower risk and costs

Tools to trim Oracle licensing costs

11 January 2019

Powering Microsoft SQL Server 2019

01 November 2019

Tackle complex data-intensive problems holistically

Power Epic healthcare environments with Superdome Flex

01 November 2019

Accelerate cyber-security threat detection

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 licence 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 organisations 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, customisable building blocks.

Process and analyse 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.²

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

Optimise 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

#

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 centres for SAP customers. ¹

1,000s

HPE has thousands SAP HANA customers.

IT transformation

HPE solutions for Oracle

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

Benefits

30-50

More speed with latest generation of x86 processors. ²

Up to 50

Reduction in licensing costs. ³

100

Faster analytics with in-memory compute. ⁴

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.

Learn More Read the solution brief

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.

Learn more Download the white paper

FEATURES

Outpace evolving data demands

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

Process and analyse 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.²

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

Optimise 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

#

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 centres for SAP customers. ¹

1,000s

HPE has thousands SAP HANA customers.

IT transformation

HPE solutions for Oracle

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

Benefits

30-50

More speed with latest generation of x86 processors. ²

Up to 50

Reduction in licensing costs. ³

100

Faster analytics with in-memory compute. ⁴

Featured Case Study

AU KABUCOM SECURITIES SUPPORTS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Au Kabucom Securities needed to realise the highest degree of secure, low cost, flexible and agile next-generation system to support the company’s transformation into a digital financial enterprise. A full data centre refresh applied tiered system requirements and allocated the most appropriate technology to each system tier to maximise performance and lower cost.

Challenge

Support the company’s transformation into a digital financial enterprise through a broad data centre refresh used for securities trading.

Solution

Fully redefined the system infrastructure architecture and applied tiered system requirements to best meet the performance assurance, disaster recovery and disaster control objectives.

“On HPE Superdome Flex, we are deploying our most critical applications, the ordering infrastructure system RAIDEN and the Core Banking system.”

Yousuke Takeuchi, junior specialist, Infrastructure Group System Engineering Department, au Kabucom Securities Co., Ltd.

Result

Au Kabucom Securities reduced the number of servers from over a thousand to a few hundred with the expectation of reducing the total cost of infrastructure by 11% in 5 years.

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Czech Technical University powers up research capacity

The university strengthens its research capabilities and expands computing resources with HPE Superdome Flex.

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Burger King Russia optimises for Microsoft Dynamics AX and SQL Server

Burger King Russia moved from an aging, underperforming legacy x86 system to a modular, x86-based, reliable computing platform to run its business-critical Microsoft Dynamics AX applications and Microsoft SQL Server database. The new platform enabled Burger King Russia to realise higher performance and greater scalability across the company and streamline every critical process from supply chain management to financial reporting.

India’s national oil company implements end-to-end SAP HANA solutions

IndianOil completed one of the world’s largest SAP HANA® migrations in just four months and reduced report generation time from five hours to 30 minutes.

National Institute of Genetics in Japan accelerates life science and genomic research

National Institute of Genetics built its 5th generation supercomputer system resulting in higher performance and more efficient research.

Understanding the origins of the universe - Podcast with Dr. James Fergusson, COSMOS

Dr. James Fergusson describes his exciting research into the origins of the universe and how in-memory systems accelerate time-to-solution for COSMOS.

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1 Internal Hewlett Packard Enterprise customer data
2 SPEC CPU2006 benchmark results, January 2018
3 HPE internal lab testing, March 2017; HPE internal analysis results using publicly available competitive data, February 2017
4 “When to Use Oracle Database In-Memory,” Oracle, 2015