QuickSpecs
HPE SimpliVity RapidDR Software QuickSpecs
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HPE SimpliVity RapidDR is a disaster recovery (DR) orchestration tool for HPE SimpliVity platforms to automate the recovery of preconfigured sets of virtual machines, from a production site to a recovery site and vice versa.
HPE SimpliVity RapidDR solution simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. It is built on the inherent HPE SimpliVity HyperProtected and HyperSimple capabilities, confirming to customer SLAs around Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) in the order of seconds and reducing Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) from days or hours to minutes. It can be used in the event of disaster to efficiently protect enterprise data centers, regional sites, remote offices or branch offices even over bandwidth constrained WAN links.
Overview
What's New
- − Support for Windows Server 2022 (Guest Operating System)
- − Support for VMware NSX-T configuration
- − Support for VMware vCenter Server 8.0
- − Support for VM recovery from HPE Cloud Volume backup. The external stores can be HPE StoreOnce appliance or HPE Cloud Volumes.
Standard Features
HPE SimpliVity RapidDR Features and Benefits
Rapid Recovery
- − Minimize service disruption by automating site recovery and eliminating manual errors
- − Simplified, configurable recovery workflow includes the order in which VMs are powered on, activate IP addresses and execute pre and post recovery scripts.
Simplified DR setup and execution
- − An intuitive, VM-centric graphical user interface guiding the configuration process in five easy steps.
- − Avoids complicated manual runbooks that consume time, resources and budget
Reduced cost and complexity
- − Eliminates the cost and complexity of special-purpose disaster recovery automation tools and stand-alone replication products.
- − Support from the same hyper-converged infrastructure vendor.
Improved Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- − Helps to ensure strict compliance with stringent disaster recovery and business continuity regulations
- − Creates well documented and detailed historical reports automatically for compliance audits
Service and Support
HPE Services
No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, you can count on HPE Services to deliver the expertise you need when, where and how you need it. From planning to deployment, ongoing operations and beyond, our experts can help you realize your digital ambitions.
Consulting Services
No matter where you are in your journey to hybrid cloud, experts can help you map out your next steps. From determining what workloads should live where, to handling governance and compliance, to managing costs, our experts can help you optimize your operations.
https://www.hpe.com/services/consulting
HPE Managed Services
HPE runs your IT operations, providing services that monitor, operate, and optimize your infrastructure and applications, delivered consistently and globally to give you unified control and let you focus on innovation.
Operational services
Optimize your entire IT environment and drive innovation. Manage day-to-day IT operational tasks while freeing up valuable time and resources. Meet service-level targets and business objectives with features designed to drive better business outcomes.
https://www.hpe.com/services/operational
HPE Complete Care Service
HPE Complete Care Service is a modular, edge-to-cloud IT environment service designed to help optimize your entire IT environment and achieve agreed upon IT outcomes and business goals through a personalized experience. All delivered by an assigned team of HPE Services experts. HPE Complete Care Service provides:
- − A complete coverage approach -- edge to cloud
- − An assigned HPE team
- − Modular and fully personalized engagement
- − Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
- − Digitally enabled and AI driven customer experience
https://www.hpe.com/services/completecare
HPE Tech Care Service
HPE Tech Care Service is the operational support service experience for HPE products. The service goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Tech Care Service delivers a customer-centric, AI driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward. HPE Tech Care Service is available in three response levels. Basic, which provides 9x5 business hour availability and a 2-hour response time. Essential which provides a 15-minute response time 24x7 for most enterprise level customers, and Critical which includes a 6-hour repair commitment where available and outage management response for severity 1 incidents.
HPE Lifecycle Services
HPE Lifecycle Services provide a variety of options to help maintain your HPE systems and solutions at all stages of the product lifecycle. A few popular examples include:
- − Lifecycle Install and Startup Services: Various levels for physical installation and power-on, remote access setup, installation and startup, and enhanced installation services with the operating system.
- − HPE Firmware Update Analysis Service: Recommendations for firmware revision levels for selected HPE products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
- − HPE Firmware Update Implementation Service: Implementation of firmware updates for selected HPE server, storage, and solution products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
- − Implementation assistance services: Highly trained technical service specialists to assist you with a variety of activities, ranging from design, implementation, and platform deployment to consolidation, migration, project management, and onsite technical forums.
- − HPE Service Credits: Access to prepaid services for flexibility to choose from a variety of specialized service activities, including assessments, performance maintenance reviews, firmware management, professional services, and operational best practices.
Notes: To review the list of Lifecycle Services available for your product go to:
https://www.hpe.com/services/lifecycle
For a list of the most frequently purchased services using service credits, see the HPE Service Credits Menu
Other Related Services from HPE Services:
HPE Education Services
Training and certification designed for IT and business professionals across all industries. Broad catalogue of course offerings to expand skills and proficiencies in topics ranging from cloud and cybersecurity to AI and DevOps. Create learning paths to expand proficiency in a specific subject. Schedule training in a way that works best for your business with flexible continuous learning options.
https://www.hpe.com/services/training
Defective Media Retention
An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.
Consult your HPE Sales Representative or Authorized Channel Partner of choice for any additional questions and services options.
Parts and Materials
HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements.
Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.
How to Purchase Services
Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:
- − Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
- − Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find services at https://ssc.hpe.com/portal/site/ssc/
AI Powered and Digitally Enabled Support Experience
Achieve faster time to resolution with access to product-specific resources and expertise through a digital and data-driven customer experience
Sign into the HPE Support Center experience, featuring streamlined self-serve case creation and management capabilities with inline knowledge recommendations. You will also find personalized task alerts and powerful troubleshooting support through an intelligent virtual agent with seamless transition when needed to a live support agent.
Consume IT On Your Terms
HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform brings the cloud experience directly to your apps and data wherever they are— the edge, colocations, or your data center. It delivers cloud services for on-premises IT infrastructure specifically tailored to your most demanding workloads. With a pay-per-use, scalable, point-and-click self-service experience that is managed for you, HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform accelerates digital transformation in a distributed, edge-to-cloud world.
- − Get faster time to market
- − Save on TCO, align costs to business
- − Scale quickly, meet unpredictable demand
- − Simplify IT operations across your data centers and clouds
To learn more about HPE Services, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative or Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partner. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at "Contact HPE" https://www.hpe.com/us/en/contact-hpe.html
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Technical Specifications
How to Order
HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software is available in 25 VM or 100 VM license packs to protect virtual machines in the case of disaster across the primary and secondary sites, which consist of multiple HPE SimpliVity nodes.
- Start with HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software E-LTUs.
- Choose a mandatory Service and Support level
Step 1: Start with HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software E-LTUs
Choose the required number of HPE SimpliVity RapidDR license packs based on the number of virtual machines that need to be protected.
E-LTU is an electronic license used when the HPE electronic delivery method is requested. Customers will receive an email after the order is processed from Hewlett Packard Enterprise with an “Access Your Products” option to download the software.
| Select the RapidDR license pack | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 100VM Pack E-LTU | Q8E45AAE |
| HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 25 VM Starter Pack E-LTU | Q8E46AAE |
| HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 25 VM Add-on Pack E-LTU | Q8E47AAE |
| Notes: Maximum number of HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 25 VM Starter packs E-LTU per order is one. | |
Step 2: Choose a mandatory Service and Support level
Services for customers purchasing from Hewlett Packard Enterprise or an enterprise reseller for the above HPE SimpliVity RapidDR part numbers are quoted automatically using Hewlett Packard Enterprise order configuration tools.
HPE Tech Care NBD 3yr is the minimum required support level for all the above HPE SimpliVity RapidDR part numbers. Additional levels of Tech Care and Tech Care Advanced options are also available. It is recommended that the customers choose the same level of support that is sold with HPE SimpliVity platforms.
Technology Services for increased uptime, productivity and ROI.
At HPE, our priority is to maximize your workload uptime, avoiding problems before they occur. As the experts for the HPE SimpliVity, HPE Services support will be your single point-of-contact for all of your support needs. This means you can spend more time developing apps and adding value to the business rather than maintaining your infrastructure.
If there is a potential risk in your infrastructure, our remote support technology will proactively notify HPE and initiate the resolution process. If you are experiencing any issue with your solution and you purchased Tech Care, you will have immediate access to our team of solution experts, whose first priority is to ensure your workloads are up and running, and then immediately start diagnosing the failure.
HPE SimpliVity is supported by the power of HPE, in 30+ different languages, with local presence across 140 countries.
Installation and Startup Services
HPE Services provides optional HPE SimpliVity Remote RapidDR software installation and startup services to meet your unique disaster orchestration deployment requirements.
| HPE SVT RDR install services | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE SimpliVity Remote RapidDR software installation and startup service | HA124A1#5YR |
| Notes: − Please consult your HPE Sales Representative for any additional questions and support options. − For more information on Technology Services Please visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/services.html | |
Summary of Changes
| Date | Version History | Action | Description of Change |
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| 16-Feb-2026 | Changed | HPE Rebranding applied | |
| 28-Jul-2025 | Changed | Update survey link. | |
| 14-Apr-2025 | Changed | Overview section was updated | |
| 12-Feb-2024 | Changed | Overview and Service and Support sections were updated | |
| 01-Nov-2021 | Changed | Service and Support Pointnext Tech Care and Complete Care information updated | |
| 06-Jul-2021 | Changed | Overview section was updated | |
| 08-Sep-2020 | Changed | Overview and Configuration Information sections were updated. | |
| 03-Feb-2020 | Changed | Overview and Configuration Information sections were updated. | |
| 17-Jun-2019 | Changed | Overview section was updated. | |
| 03-Jun-2019 | Changed | Overview, Standard Features, and How to Order sections were updated. SKU added: HA124A1#5YR. | |
| 02-Apr-2018 | Changed | Overview, Standard Features and How to Order sections were updated. | |
| 04-Dec-2017 | Changed | Overview, Standard Features, and How to order sections were updated. | |
| 04-Sep-2017 | Changed | Changes made to the How to Order Section | |
| 14-Aug-2017 | Changed | Changes made to the entire document | |
| 07-Aug-2017 | Created | New QuickSpecs |
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