The Pensando Distributed Services Platform (DSP) for HPE Servers delivers a powerful suite of software-defined network and security services like firewall, micro-segmentation, and telemetry—boosting network performance by moving these services to their ideal location, the server edge, where the transition between network and server occurs.

This approach eliminates the need for discrete appliances, simplifies infrastructure design/operations, strengthens security posture, and improves total cost of ownership (TCO) while providing unmatched telemetry, I/O visibility and troubleshooting insights.

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XXXXXX-X21 is SKU designation formed by a common six digit part number and a -X21 suffix that identifies a SKU that is available across multiple server family lines. Refer to the table below to find the SKU suffix that applies to the specific server product line this option can be ordered with.

PSM: Policy Deployment

Policy configuration at scale represents a declaration of intent, regardless of propagation delays, planned maintenance windows, or unplanned network/server outages. Security configuration and changes must always be delivered as intended. The Pensando PSM deploys policy configurations and updates with an intent-based model that is widely used in modern network and storage infrastructure management platforms. All managed DSC devices are guaranteed to run coherent versions of network and security policies that have been deployed at scale.

PSM: Comprehensive Audit and Compliance

Immutable secure audit records are the backbone of regulatory compliance in any industry. The Policy and Services Manager maintains detailed and comprehensive audit logs of every change. Its firewall service maintains firewall logs that include all essential attributes needed to meet the highest compliance standards. All logs can be easily exported from the PSM in CSV format, or continuously streamed through syslog to Splunk™, Kafka, ELK, or any big data analytics platform customers utilize

PSM: Lifecycle Management

Every aspect of data center services and security undergoes continuous change. Managing the lifecycle of security rules and policies, workloads, applications requires a management model that adequately reflects the relationships, workflows and dynamics of data center operations. The Pensando PSM offers comprehensive lifecycle management, not only for security policies and workloads, but also for the underlying infrastructure itself. A native management model reflects the full lifecycle of all objects, allowing control of every object’s lifecycle phase (Create, Replace, Update, Delete) through either the REST API or GUI.

Since the PSM has been designed with an intent-based model at its foundation, updates will always propagate. Even in situations where services or nodes may be unreachable or offline, the PSM guarantees that all updates intended for a given DSC will be received and instantiated as intended, whether towards a specific security rule being updated, or an upgrade of the DSC firmware itself.

Distributed Services Platform Software Licensing Tiers and Capabilities

Always-on Telemetry and Deep Observability

The Pensando Distributed Services Platform (DSP) brings sophisticated wire-speed telemetry to HPE ProLiant, Edgeline, and Apollo servers, providing real time observability and insights for network and storage, without affecting application performance or imposing any compromise on security or encryption. All observability functions are centrally managed through the PSM, which radically simplifies workload identification and correlation, and accelerates troubleshooting. The platform can easily correlate packet flows, ingest application level metrics, and do complex inferencing to expose actionable insights. Always-on telemetry at the server edge enables proactive end-to-end troubleshooting and problem reporting, minimizing downtime and significantly reducing MTTR.

Micro-Segmentation for Virtualized (Window Hyper-V, Linux KVM) and Containerized (Kubernetes) Workloads

Isolate application tiers and virtualized (Windows Hyper-V, Linux KVM) and containerized (Kubernetes) workloads from each other on HPE servers and achieve “zero-trust security” enforced within each machine by the Pensando Distributed Services Card (DSC).

Distributed Stateful Firewall for Bare-Metal, Virtualized (Windows Hyper-V, Linux KVM) and Containerized (Kubernetes) Workloads

Enabling policy enforcement and permitted-list communications between servers within the data center (E-W security), the Pensando DSC implements an enterprise-class, centrally managed stateful firewall at each server edge, with no host agents required and no performance impact. Advanced firewall functionality includes: Application Layer Gateway (ALG), and packet-based DDos attack protection (Flood, TCP SYN, fragmentation, Ping-of-Death, and more).

3rd Party Controller Integration

The Pensando PSM integrates with compute orchestration systems such as VMware vCenter and Kubernetes to simplify service provisioning. Example scenarios include identifying the compute instances (workloads) and implementing visibility or networking policy implemented and enforced by the DSC cards at each server node. As container workloads are added, removed or changed, the Pensando Distributed Services Platform matches the administered policies to the workloads, ensuring that authorized network, security, telemetry and troubleshooting policies are applied. The PSM also handles the addition/deletion of new hosts and their association with corresponding workloads, workload migration events, and lifecycle management of DSC cards.

HPE Greenlake Management Services

HPE Greenlake Management Services is a suite of services that helps customers manage, operate, and optimize their IT environments. Services can be tailored to meet the unique requirements of a customer’s environment—from operating their entire data center to managing specific environments within it, such as SAP HANA®, or operating certain layers of the infrastructure, like storage. Our Greenlake Management Services use a standardized approach that enables us to provide advice for optimizing a customer’s environment to improve quality, scalability, availability and reduce cost.

Remote Monitor, Operate, Administer and Optimize Services

• − Monitor: 24x7 Remote Monitoring, we monitor the environment and acknowledge alerts
• − Operate: Single point of contact for problem identification and resolution. React to alerts, action (HPE scope) or pass to customer, perform scheduled maintenance as agreed upon
• − Administer: Investigate alerts, execute activities to resolve, recommend and execute changes required (upon customer approval), perform patch updates. Infrastructure and network administration, access control, security updates, back-up and performance and capacity management.
• − Optimize: We offer a higher, master level set of skills, these next generation skills enable HPE to provide advice in key technology areas supported with an eye to continuous improvement and optimization of the environment.

HPE Greenlake Management Services Help customers to manage and operate their IT environment through the unique combination of HPE people, process, and platform, all delivered based on ITIL best Practices.

Platform

• − An advanced suite of integrated management tools used to manage and optimize the environment
• − Reduce investment in tools, staff, and training with HPE IP and platform
• − Minimize risk with AI-driven business insights
• − Support business-aligned decisions from core to cloud to edge

People

• − Experience premium support with dedicated relationship manager
• − Gain faster business results with full-stack certified expertise
• − Reduce risk with continuous support across 8 global support centers, 5000 experts

Process

• − Deliver compliant outcomes with ITSM and HPE IP
• − Achieve greater IT continuity
• − Drive business efficiency with continuous improvement

HPE GreenLake

HPE GreenLake is HPE’s market-leading IT as-a-service offering that brings the cloud experience to apps and data everywhere – data centers, multi-clouds, and edges – with one unified operating model. HPE GreenLake delivers public cloud services and infrastructure for workloads on premises, fully managed in a pay per use model. It combines the benefit from a public cloud-like experience with the customers’ need to maintain full control of the IT solutions on premises.

HPE GreenLake customers can start with the capacity needed initially and grow with business demand, leveraging active capacity management, variable monthly payments based on metered usage, and services that simplify IT. HPE GreenLake supports a wide, and growing, range of workloads as a service, including both HPE and partner technologies.

Examples include:

• − Compute - Meet general purpose to high-performance computing needs
• − Storage - Fast access to data with massive scalability and high availability
• − Private Cloud - Gain agility with cloud services in customer data center and at the edge
• − Database - Scalability for the most robust database environments
• − Virtualization - Deliver capacity for virtualized workloads, with technology built and sized for customer needs
• − Backup - Worry free backup, data protection, disaster recovery, and Dev/Test

Powered by HPE GreenLake Central, a new intuitive self-service portal and operations console, customers can rapidly deploy services, gain cost and compliance insights, and simplify management across their entire hybrid estate. With HPE GreenLake Central, customers can free business units and developers from the traditional wait times for services as they use the self-service portal to find and use the services that they need.

Leveraging Pensando Distributed Services Platform, HPE has enriched the HPE GreenLake offer with a suite of software-defined, distributed network and security services.

The integration of the Pensando Distributed Services Platform into the HPE GreenLake infrastructure assures customers that every dollar paid for the HPE GreenLake computing power is spent to support the enterprise business processes instead of management applications like firewalling, micro-segmentation, load balancing, and other network and security functions, which are executed on the Pensando Distributed Services Cards’ own silicon, instead of servers’ CPU. One more positive side effect is a significant cost reduction, since the costly appliances usually adopted by customers for firewalling, load balancing and the like are not needed anymore, since their functions are pre-integrated in the HPE GreenLake with Pensando infrastructure. All this is available in customer premises or in a colocation facility and managed according to an as a service model.

Moreover, by adopting the HPE GreenLake with Pensando, customers will get all the power of the HPE’s and Partners’ technology equipped with an edge computing accelerator that allows to handle critical network functions at the compute edge, and the scale-out approach of HPE GreenLake compute and storage systems is extended to the networking and security elements of the data center.

HPE GreenLake with Pensando is available to customer through a public-cloud-like experience and priced according to a pay per use model.

Supported Servers

• − ProLiant DL325 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL360 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL380 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL385 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL560 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL580 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus
• − ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus
• − Apollo 4200 Gen10
• − Apollo 4510 Gen10
• − Edgeline EL8000

GreenLake Offering

• − ProLiant DL360 Gen10
• − ProLiant DL380 Gen10

Supported HCI Platforms

• − VMware vSAN ReadyNode (vSAN 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0)

Warranty

This product is covered by a global limited warranty and supported by HPE Services and a worldwide network of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partners resellers. Hardware diagnostic support and repair is available for three years from date of purchase. Support for software and initial setup is available for 90 days from date of purchase. Enhancements to warranty services are available through Operational Services from HPE Services or customized service agreements. Hard drives have either a one year or three-year warranty; refer to the specific hard drive QuickSpecs for details.

Notes:

− Server Warranty includes 3-Year Parts, 3-Year Labor, 3-Year Onsite support with next business day response. Warranty repairs may be accomplished through the use of Customer Self Repair (CSR) parts. These parts fall into two categories:

− Mandatory CSR parts are designed for easy replacement. A travel and labor charge will result when customers decline to replace a Mandatory CSR part;

− Optional CSR parts are also designed for easy replacement but may involve added complexity. Customers may choose to have Hewlett Packard Enterprise replace Optional CSR parts at no charge. Additional information regarding worldwide limited warranty and technical support is available at: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/services/compute.html.

Maximum: The remaining warranty of the HPE product in which it is installed (to a maximum three-year, limited warranty).

Minimum: One year limited warranty.

Notes: Additional information regarding worldwide limited warranty and technical support is available at: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/services/compute.html

Warranty and Support Services

Warranty and Support Services will extend to include HPE options configured with your server or storage device. The price of support service is not impacted by configuration details. HPE sourced options that are compatible with your product will be covered under your server support at the same level of coverage allowing you to upgrade freely. Installation for HPE options is available as needed. To keep support costs low for everyone, some high value options will require additional support. Additional support is only required on select high value workload accelerators, fiber switches, InfiniBand and UPS options 12KVA and over. Coverage of the UPS battery is not included under Operational Services; standard warranty terms and conditions apply.

24x7 software support is included in each Pensando software license. Customers can submit cases to HPE directly through the HPE Support Center portal or by calling HPE direct. Hewlett Packard Enterprisewill respond to received cases with 2 hours. This coverage applies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Pensando Distributed Services Platform products are supported by the HPE Services Software Defined Networking (SDN) Center of Excellence (CoE), providing troubleshooting, advice and assistance. The SDN CoE is a virtual team located around the world, available 24x7. The SDN CoE are highly trained in the Software Defined Networking hardware, software and complex solution interoperability. If a problem requires engineering resources, the SDN CoE collaborates directly through live case exchange with Pensando as they investigate the issue.