The XP portfolio contains a robust set of software titles that drastically reduce storage management and provisioning complexity and deliver advanced multi-data center high availability, migration, and automation. Essential software for provisioning, managing, and replication is bundled with the XP8 Storage hardware, making it simpler and more economical to purchase.

Together, XP8 hardware and software deliver unmatched availability, performance, and scale. Rest easy knowing that XP8 will always be online, with no downtime for any reason and backed up with the XP8 100% Data Availability Guarantee.

HPE XP8 is available in two models: HPE XP8 All-Flash Storage Array and HPE XP8 Hybrid Array. Both models can be purchased in either Base (2-controller) or Performance (4-controller) versions and can scale up to a fully loaded 12-controller configuration.

Gen2 Disk Controller Chassis –DKC

The XP8 Disk Controller Chassis (DKC) is offered in two models and always in pairs. The Base Disk Controller Chassis pair is the entry model and contains one controller board in each DKC. This Base model is ideal for who require 100% availability but have less stringent performance requirements. For customers who require more IOPs, the Performance Disk Controller Chassis pair comes with four controllers, two in each DKC. Customers who initially purchase the Base DKC can upgrade to the Performance DKC as their needs grow.

Both Base and Performance DKC models ship with an MPU (Microprocessor Unit), cache, one Service Processor (SVP), Backup Memory Kit (BKM), Cooling Fans and AC-DC Power Supplies.

The Cache Backup Module Kit (BKM) contains batteries and cache flash memories to prevent data loss during a power outage.

The options that can be added or configured to a Disk Controller Chassis (DKC) consist of Channel Host Boards (CHB) and cache.

The SVP manages and modifies the storage system configuration information and observes the operational status. Connecting this SVP to HPE C-Track enables remote monitoring of the storage system. An Optional SVP may be added to provide storage management and monitoring continuity in case the main SVP fails and needs to be replaced.

Data-In-Place (DIP) upgrade

Implementing XP DIP upgrades will allow HPE XP8 customers to gain full Gen2 capabilities and substantial investment protection. Instead of buying all new infrastructure and migrating data, the XP8 DIP upgrade pairs existing drive media and data with new Gen2 controllers. The upgrade process is 100% online, so there’s no impact on production workloads.

Drive Chassis (DKU)/ Media Chassis – DKU

Four types of media chassis are available:

• − SBX - SFF HDD/SSD Chassis for 2.5-inch media
• − UBX - LFF Drive Chassis for 3.5-inch drives
• − FBX - FMD Chassis for Flash Module Devices (FMD)
• − NBX - SFF NVMe and SCM Chassis for 2.5-inch media

SBX: The SFF Drive Chassis is a chassis for installing the SFF media. It consists of SAS SW boards and AC-DC Power Supplies equipped with built-in cooling fans.

UBX: The LFF Drive Chassis is a chassis for installing the LFF disk drives. It consists of SAS SW boards and AC-DC Power Supplies equipped with built-in cooling fans.

FBX: The FMD Chassis is a chassis used to install Flash Module Devices. It consists of SAS SW boards and AC-DC Power Supplies equipped with built-in cooling fans.

NBX: The NBX Drive Chassis is a chassis for installing the SFF NVMe and SCM media. It consists of PCIe SW boards and AC-DC Power Supplies equipped with built-in cooling fans.

Channel Host Boards– CHB

Channel Host Board (CHB) pairs provide host connections to the HPE XP8 (either directly connected to the servers or through SAN switches). CHB pairs also provide connections to External Storage and remote replication devices. CHBs are configured in pairs for redundancy. The maximum number of CHB pairs that can be installed in an XP8 is 24 providing 192 ports for host connectivity.

• − Max4 CHB pair with a 2DKC 2CTL array
• − Max8 CHB pair with a 2 DKC 4CTLarray
• − Max16 CHB pair with a 4 DKC 8CTL array
• − Max24 CHB pair with a 6 DKC 12CTL array

CHB pairs and transceivers available for use in the HPE XP8 include:

The Fibre Channel CHB pair uses SFP (small form factor pluggable) Transceivers on each port of the CHB. By installing the appropriate transceiver, each port can be configured as short wave or long wave.

Disk Controller Board – DKB

The Disk Controller Board (DKB) performs all data movement between the drives and Cache Memory. The HPE XP8 may have zero DKB pairs (for an all-External Virtual Storage configuration) or from 2 to 24 DKB pairs for internal storage media connection, depending on the number of DKCs. DKB’s are determined solely by the number of controllers in the array. DKB’s are available for both SAS and NVMe configurations.

Encryption Ready Disk Controller Board – E-DKB

The HPE XP8 encryption option requires the Encryption Ready Disk Controller Boards and an encryption software license. Data encryption occurs at the DKB device resulting in encrypted data at rest (DARE) on the drive/media. Encryption DKB’s are available for both SAS and NVMe configurations.

Please see the software section for information on the HPE XP8 DKB Encryption Software LTU.

HPE XP8 Gen2 Compression Accelerator with Fan Kit

The HPE Compression Accelerator increases the effective capacity and performance of the XP8 array. The accelerator offloads the data compression workload from the controller CPU, leading to greater overall performance. The accelerator uses the LZ4HC algorithm for improved compression ratios and performance. The accelerator is optional and only supported on XP8 Gen2.

Cache Memory

Cache Memory is used to temporarily store data from the host until it is written to drive storage, or to stage data requested by the host. The HPE XP8 contains global mirrored cache. All write data is duplicated in both cache clusters. Cache control data (Shared Memory) and Cache data is also backed up to SSD for each Cache Memory Adapter in case of power outage (back up battery installed by default) or DKC power off. Optional encrypted cache backup can be purchased for added security.

HPE XP8 Cache Memory can be configured into logical partitions allocated to particular host/port combinations to ensure that those hosts/ports enjoy optimized cache-oriented I/O performance. These cache partitions are assigned to specified Array Groups. Up to 32 partitions of at least 4GB can be created in an HPE XP8. Assigning cache in this way provides another method for tuning performance for data access for performance-critical applications.

Media: HDD / SSD Drives and Flash Modules

The HPE XP8 supports a variety of 2.5” small form-factor hard disk drives and solid-state drives (SSDs), 3.5” large form-factor hard disk drives, and XP Flash Module Devices. The number and type of media installed in HPE XP8 is flexible. Media must be added in a minimum of groups of four. Additional capacity can be installed over time as capacity needs grow. Depending on the media type selected, XP8 uses an industry-standard dual-ported 12 Gbps SAS interface or NVMe PCIe interface. Each media is connected to both blades of the redundant DKB pair by separate connections. Spare media are automatically used in the event of a media failure.

SSDs have a limited number of writes that can occur before reaching the SSD’s write endurance limit. The write endurance limit of enterprise MLC SSDs is generally high enough so wear-out will not occur during the expected service life of an HPE XP8 under the great majority of configurations, IO patterns, and workloads. The HPE XP8 tracks all writes to SSDs and can report the percent of the total write limit used. This allows any SSD approaching the write limit to be proactively replaced before being automatically spared out.

Flash Module Device (FMD)

The HPE XP8 supports Flash Module Devices (FMD), which provide solid-state non-volatile high-performance data capacity. FMDs also contain a built-in ASIC that performs data compression, offloading the compression workload from the controller CPU enabling higher performance. FMD capacity can be configured for use in the same way as any other HDD or SSD. FMDs must be added in groups of four or more, and additional capacity can be installed over time as capacity needs increase. Spare FMDs are automatically used in the event of an FMD failure.

Up to four 48-slot FMD Chassis may be configured for each DKC pair. FMD Chassis use the industry standard dual-ported 12 Gbps SAS interface. Each FMD Chassis is connected to both blades of the redundant DKB pair by separate connections.

Notes: The FMD is supported in Mainframe environments, but with FMD compression turned off.

Service Processor

The Service Processor (SVP) manages the HPE XP8 configuration, maintenance activities, and gathers statistical information. The HPE XP8 does not require a functioning SVP for data read/write functionality, but an optional redundant SVP can be added for greater availability of management functions. If the primary SVP fails, the hot standby SVP is switched into operation automatically within approximately six minutes.

Continuous Track Remote Support

The HPE Continuous Track (C-Track) remote support solution uses internet connectivity to transmit heartbeats, system information messages (SIMs), and configuration information to the HPE Storage Technology Centers (STCs) for remote monitoring purposes.

C-Track also enables the STCs to remotely diagnose specific issues that may exist on the HPE XP8. With Hewlett Packard Enterprise secure remote device access, Hewlett Packard Enterprise support personnel have the enhanced ability, in many cases, to quickly fix a support issue entirely through remotely performed actions.

The HPE XP8 Continuous Track remote support functions require connection to HPE Insight Remote Support via the internet.

Server connectivity

The HPE XP8 connects to a variety of servers and operating systems. Please contact your sales representative for details on which servers and operating systems are currently supported.

Switch support details

The HPE XP8 connects to the leading Fibre Channel and iSCSI switches in the industry today. For detailed information on supported switch configurations, please contact your sales representative.

Application Solutions

HPE XP8 is the member to the HPE XP Storage family, which has been delighting customers for over twenty years. Over that time, XP Storage earned a reputation for superior availability, performance, and scale. The HPE XP8 is ideal for customers running Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, VMware, and Mainframe environments that cannot afford downtime or tolerate data loss.

The HPE XP8 provides these mission-critical application environments with a complete hardware and software storage solution to decrease risks, lower costs, and accelerate business growth and agility. Data replication and tightly integrated clustering solutions, along with disaster recovery support, enable a multi-site disaster-tolerant design to achieve business continuity in the most mission-critical environment.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed an in-depth understanding of Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and VMware technologies by extensive lab-testing best practices with the HPE XP8 Storage, HPE servers, and management software; high availability and disaster recovery solutions; and backup and recovery on the Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP application platforms. As a result, our customers can expect a wide range of operational and business benefits where they can:

• − Maintain Hardware Redundancy. Every active component within an HPE XP8 array is redundant, hot-swappable, and can be upgraded online.
• − Achieve Data Loss Protection to monitor the array around the clock for unseen issues. Investigate and resolve problems proactively and immediately.
• − Increase utilization efficiency and reduce storage costs with HPE XP8 Smart Tiers, HPE XP8 Thin Provisioning and HPE XP8 data reduction technologies.
• − Increase return on investment with reduced cooling and power requirements and increased reliability and storage density with HPE Smart Tiers.
• − Maximize performance and consistently low response times with HPE XP8 ultra high-performance configurations and HPE XP8 Flash Module Devices.
• − Easily integrate to existing Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and VMware environments with the choice of FC, iSCSI, NVMe or SAS attached controllers.

To learn more about specific HPE Storage Solutions that are built with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and VMware environments in mind, visit the Storage Solutions for Mission Critical Applications site:

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/mission-critical-applications.html

HPE XP8 Software Products

The HPE XP8 family offers a complete portfolio of software applications designed to help you confidently manage and maximize the availability, performance, and scale of your HPE XP8 Storage. For convenience, all essential XP8 management and replication software is included with the array purchase. Other advanced software is optional and purchased individually.

• − Trial licenses are available for most HPE XP8 software products. Please contact your HPE Sales Representative for details

Base software suite bundled with XP8 Storage

The HPE XP8 essential software, which includes over twenty software titles such as Intelligent Storage Manager, Data Protection Manager, and Remote Replication Suite, is bundled with the purchase of the XP8 array.

Intelligent Storage Manager is a unified configuration management tool that reduces the complexity of managing HPE XP storage systems. HPE Intelligent Storage Manager’s intuitive Graphical User Interface shortens the learning curve and allows users to get at-a-glance status of XP storage resources. Built-in configuration intelligence provides best-practice recommendations to help users simplify deployment, management, and maintenance. Quickly and easily create parity groups, pools, volumes, then set their replication policies for up to 50 XP storage systems. Intelligent Storage Manager reduces complexity, and the effort required to manage storage resources, allowing for more time to focus on strategic initiatives.

Improve storage administrator productivity by reducing complexity and simplifying management

• − Intelligent Storage Manager’s intuitive GUI streamlines storage life-cycle tasks. Deploy, monitor, and tune storage infrastructure with just a few mouse clicks. Use − recommended best practices to simplify deployment and get it right the first time.
• − Use the comprehensive dashboard view to assess storage infrastructure health quickly. See alerts for HW issues, capacity, and data protection. Drill down to individual storage resources to view used and available capacity. If action is needed, tasks that sometimes took hours and days can now be done in minutes with a few mouse clicks.
• − Integrate Intelligent Storage Manager easily integrates into existing environments with no disruption. The REST-API interface allows easy integration with existing infrastructure management tools and lessens the learning curve.
• − Improve storage administrator productivity by reducing complexity and simplifying management
• − Single management interface to manage all storage lifecycle needs. There is no need for multiple tools and differing resource skills to manage them.
• − Deploy new or modify existing configurations in a fraction of the time.

Create and deploy service-level profile tiers to match SLA requirements. Deploy only the required profile, no more or less.

HPE XP8 Remote Replication Suite

HPE XP8 Remote Replication Suite offering provides everything needed to meet the most demanding availability requirements. Remote Replication Suites combines High Availability, Continuous Access, Continuous Access Journal, 3-Data Center Continuous Access Continuous Access Journal, 3-Data Center Continuous Access Journal / Continuous Access Journal, 3-Data Center High Availability / Center Continuous Access Journal and Business Continuity Manager into one convenient package.

High Availability (HA) Software is an Active-Active High Availability Solution offering on HPE XP8 Storage. HPE XP8 High Availability reduces application downtime in the event of an array or array component failure and allows for transparent virtual machine mobility across sites. The high availability feature is implemented based on the HPE XP8 Multi-Array Virtualization capability. HPE XP8 High Availability Software supports two use cases: Active-Active HA and Active-Active Access.

Active-Active HA provides storage uptime from a disaster recovery configuration even when an array and/or entire data center goes offline. Active-Active Access provides non-disruptive, transparent VM and/or clustered application mobility between hosts or servers at the same or different sites.

The HA Virtual Storage Machine features Multi-Array Virtualization (MAV), which provides the virtualization architecture software to set up local or clustered mirrored volumes that look the same to any supported Host multi-path/cluster software. MAV replicates the data across HPE XP8 arrays up to a synchronous distance and provides delta re-sync capability in case of failure/maintenance.

HA can be combined with any of the other traditional mirroring program products like Business Copy or Fast Snap Plus to make additional copies. HA may or may not require a quorum. Today, the quorum, if any, may reside on external storage or local storage, and it can be virtual as well (no quorum).

The host can then use generic multi-path solutions for Active-Active access and load balancing as the Virtual Storage Machine hides and handles HA complexity.

With the HPE XP8 3DC HA solution, HPE XP8 Storage arrays on two sites replicate data synchronously while configured for Active-Active High Availability, while the HPE XP8 Storage on a third site many miles away protects against a regional disaster that hits the first two. Lose any of the sites and the other two keep going. When the “down” sites come back up the data is re-synched to the full 3DC HA solution.

The solution combines the high availability and synchronous replication at metropolitan distances with the long-distance capability of journal replication. This solution protects against local and wide area disasters. A wide area disaster could disable both data centers 1 and 2. Operations can be shifted to data center 3. A campus/metropolitan HA implementation allows for data currency due to Active-Active configuration at data centers 1 and 2 with no impact on application availability or performance.

The High Availability with Synchronous replication at Site 1 & 2

• − The HA pair volumes are configured as Active-Active to provide fourteen 9s availability
• − If a failure at Site 1, prevents host access to the primary volume, read and write I/O can continue to Site 2 , providing continuous server I/O to the data volume
• − In a server-cluster configuration, the HA pair need not be suspended/resynchronized during server failover/failback
• − Server load balancing without storage impact

The CA Journal delta resync at Site 3

• − Involves creating a Continuous Access Journal copy pair called delta-resync pair between HA S-VOL on the local site and CA Journal S-VOL on the remote site
• − The journal for delta resync pair holds the differential data between the S-VOLs on local and remote sites
• − Delta resync operation is performed during primary site disaster

Differential data stored in the delta resync pair journal is used to synchronize the S-VOL

HPE XP8 for Business Continuity Manager provides centralized and automated management and monitoring of Business Copy for Mainframe, Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe and Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe.

HPE XP8 Business Continuity Manager includes Business Continuity Manager Extended CT Group functionality for synchronous replication, allowing you to maintain data consistency within and across multiple HPE XP8 Storage for Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe operations.

HPE XP8 Business Continuity Manager Continuous Access Journal 4x4 Ext CTG Software allows users to maintain data consistency within and across multiple (up to four) HPE XP8 Storage for Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe operations.

The HPE XP8 Continuous Access family of high availability data and disaster recovery tools enable real-time data mirroring between HPE XP8 Storage. They provide continuous availability for all your important data and protect you from catastrophic failures. HPE XP8 Continuous Access products deliver host-independent, array-based remote recovery for a wide range of open systems environments. HPE XP8 Continuous Access provides high-performance remote mirroring in high-workload environments. Using shared mirroring and host-connect interfaces, you will better utilize your array resources. In addition, with seamless integration into a full spectrum of remote mirroring-based solutions, HPE XP8 Continuous Access can be deployed for activities ranging from data migration to high-availability server clustering.

HPE XP8 Continuous Access Suite includes HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous and HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal. HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous, the base product, provides replication using a synchronous link between HPE XP8 Storage. HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal provides replication using an asynchronous link between HPE XP8 Storage. HPE XP8 Continuous Access can be used to copy data between HPE XP8 Storage and between XP Disk Arrays of different generations. For up-to-date information on HPE XP8 Continuous Access compatibility between HPE XP8/XP Disk Array generations, please contact your HPE representative.

Product Highlights

• − Remote data mirroring between HPE XP8/XP Disk Arrays
• − Enables a wide range of remote mirroring solutions
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous: Synchronous copy mode
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal: Asynchronous copy mode
• − Fast failover/failback for seamless, reliable mirroring recovery
• − Provides data consistency for Open/Mainframe VOLs in a multi-DKC 3 Data center multi-target configuration
• − Host Agent integration using HPE XP8 RAID Manager
• − Supports 3DC Continuous Access Journal configuration
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Sync includes licenses for Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe, providing synchronous remote replication for mainframe volume types
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal includes licenses for Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe, Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe, and Continuous − Access Journal 3DC & 4x4 for Mainframe, providing asynchronous journal-based remote replication for mainframe volume types
• − Provides Active-Active High Availability
• − 100% Storage uptime in the event of an array or data center failure
• − Non-disruptive, transparent VM or clustered application mobility between hosts (Active-Active Access)
• − HA CLI management through HPE XP8 Array Manager Plus Suite (or MF Basic Suite + Array Manager Conversion Suite) and HA GUI Management through Command − View Advanced Edition
• − Works with general multipath software. HDLM is not mandatory.
• − Support for external volumes
• − BCM is required for z/OS host management of CA Journal for MF, 3DC and Journal 4*4 for Mainframe

HPE Data Protection Manager is the answer for implementing contemporary data protection and copy management to improve data availability, compliance, governance, agility, and costs. HPE Data Protection Manager enables administrators to create policies and workflows to automate replication and copy data management, removing vast amounts of complexity and the need to create and manage custom scripts. Copy data configurations that sometimes took weeks to deploy can now be done in minutes. Its whiteboard-like GUI makes it easy to create and manage replication and copy services to meet quality of service requirements. Data Protection Manager tightly integrates copy services with applications to ensure application and crash-consistent backup.

HPE Data Protection Manager is structured into three sub-products: Storage Replication, Storage File System Protection, and Storage Application Protection. All three products are bundled into the Intelligent Management Suite, which is included with the array purchase.

Product Highlights

• − Create end-to-end copy-data automation and orchestration services.

  • Create policy-based workflows for recovery services include snapshots, local and remote replication, active-active and active-passive configurations, and backup parameters.
  • Provide ancillary copy services to support analytics, DevOps, troubleshooting, financials, and other business functions without impacting host IO performance. This would be controlled by policy and workflow to ensure accuracy, access, and life cycle.
  • Governance copy services that track all copies. Copies are indexed to enable search, audit and analytics. Set retention policies to guard against sprawl.
• − HPE Data Protection Manager’s drag-n-drop GUI minimizes Copy Data Management complexity.

  • Data Protection Manager uses a whiteboard-like GUI to easily create policies-based workflows. Those workflows can then be applied using simple drag-n-drop on that same whiteboard.
  • Scale to any number of policy-based workflows to meet variations in business QoS requirements across the enterprise. Once created, quickly deploy, update, or replace workflows as needed. The result is an agile and predictable copy data environment.
  • Data Protection Manager eliminates error-prone manual, repetitive tasks and the need to create and maintain scripts.
• − Maximize recoverability and availability.

  • HPE Data Protection Manager ensures application consistency on recovery by tightly coordinating application and storage copy services. Operations across local and remote copy services are coordinated for complete end-to-end data protection.
  • Use tight integration between storage and application.
• − Multi-tenancy and reduced risk and costs with robust Copy Data Governance Control

  • Restrict access with granular role-based access control. HPE Data Protection Manager allows for up to 50 different parameters to govern access and supports many thousands of individual user profiles. Control what users can view and change, if and when data is updated, and when data is expired.

Governance reduces costs by controlling the lifecycle of copy data. HPE Data Protection Manager knows where data resides, and when it should be deleted. No more terabytes of stale data consuming valuable storage.

Array Manager software provides web-based volume management, resource allocation, access control, and data security for your HPE XP8 Storage. Configure and manage data volumes for effective use of your HPE XP8. Partition array resources to isolate applications, reserve cache memory for your most frequently accessed data, and control host port usage so that your most critical applications have the needed port bandwidth. Configure, manage, and secure all host access to the HPE XP8 so that you have efficient access to your data. Create read-only volumes for archiving and data retention and securely delete your data when necessary.

HPE XP8 Performance Advisor Software

HPE XP8 Performance Advisor Software is a web-based application for collecting, monitoring, and displaying the performance of your HPE XP8 Storage. With HPE XP8 Performance Advisor, you can choose the time and duration of performance data collection-so you can pinpoint activities that significantly affect your HPE XP8 and tune the array accordingly. You can easily monitor storage performance and display usage statistics for your storage system at any level, from a complete system overview down to individual components. You can also filter hosts, arrays, and array components, so you are only seeing the hosts and arrays you want to see. You can also generate, schedule, and view detailed performance reports that will allow you to identify any performance bottlenecks in your HPE XP8 Storage.

Performance Advisor now supports VM Analytics, which enables you to analyze your VMware virtual environment, detect potential issues, and take corrective action before problems occur. Performance Advisor integrates with HPE XP8 Tiered Storage Manager, providing Array Group performance data. This allows Tiered Storage Manager to monitor access patterns so that you can consider performance implications before migrating data.

Not supported in mainframe environments.

Thin Provisioning Software allows you to supply storage capacity to your applications from a virtualized storage pool. The HPE XP8 Thin Provisioning Software reduces the amount of physical drive capacity initially required by enabling you to allocate your anticipated future storage capacity from virtual storage. As utilization of physical drive space increases over time, you can purchase more drive capacity as needed and install it without affecting your applications. By removing the guessing from capacity planning, HPE XP8 Thin Provisioning reduces the cost of volume management.

Resource Partition allows role-based access control of HPE XP8 resources. It allows storage administrators to partition HPE XP8 resources either at a logical level to improve storage utilization efficiency or at a physical level to improve quality of service and avoid data and access breaches across multiple tenants. Administrators can partition HPE XP8 Storage at a physical level (ports, hosts, LDEVs, and Parity Groups) and dedicate those resources to specific requirements. They can also partition at a logical level (Host Groups and LDEVs) and keep Ports, Parity Groups and External Storage as a shared infrastructure. Resource Partition software is ideal for a multi-tenant environment where dedicated sub-administrators will manage IT infrastructure needs of their respective business units. At the same time, it allows the data center administrator to retain complete control of HPE XP8 Storage resources.

External Storage allows you to host HPE XP8 Storage LUNs on select external storage subsystems. HPE XP8 External Storage allows you to tier storage capabilities and provision a HPE XP8 solution to optimize return on IT investment - letting you focus high-performance/high availability native HPE XP8 Storage capacity against your most mission-critical data while hosting less critical data on cost-optimized external storage subsystems. Data stored on external devices connected behind an HPE XP8 appears to a server to be stored inside the HPE XP8.

External Storage provides significant consolidation scalability - up to 255 Petabytes (PB) of external storage can be configured behind a single HPE XP8 Storage. Coupled with the considerable cost advantages that external storage systems can provide, you can confidently scale your HPE XP8 solution to simplify configuration complexity and reduce ongoing management costs.

HPE External Storage is compatible with a wide range of HPE XP8 software tools, including HPE XP8 Business Copy for local replication, HPE XP8 Continuous Access for remote replication, and HPE XP8 Auto LUN for performance optimization.

Notes: The HPE XP8 External Storage Base LTU is included in the base software suite that is included with the purchase of the XP8 array. It allows for HA quorum to be configured on an external resource. For any other additional external storage requirements up to 1PB, the R0W57A LTU must be ordered. External storage greater than 1PB is licensed at near zero cost using the R0W57AB Unlimited External Storage LTU.

Business Copy makes complete copies of data from HPE XP8 Storage for development, testing or backup, without ever interrupting your online production. HPE XP8 Business Copy creates and maintains RAID-protected copy volumes without interrupting access to the source volumes. Because it makes asynchronous copy volume updates, copies stay up to date with minimal I/O response time degradations for your primary applications. The replicated volumes can be "split" from their corresponding source volume and accessed by other applications at any time. Therefore, while copy volumes are utilized, primary applications can continue to access and update their source volumes as needed, without taking a performance hit. By creating multiple online copies of critical business data without disrupting your business, HPE XP8 Business Copy lets you get the most from your data.

Fast Snap is a feature of Business Copy that also replicates data volumes. However, it is slightly different in that it makes space-efficient differential copies that might only consume a fraction of the capacity of the primary copy. Only data about to be overwritten in the source volume is written to the copy. This is called Copy-after-Write. As a result, the volume capacity required for HPE XP8 FastSnap can be smaller, lowering your capacity costs. Fast Snap Pool Capacity Optimization provides additional efficiencies by re-arranging fragmented data. Fast Snap is recommended for application environments where the I/O to the secondary volume is not write-centric or intensive (reads or writes).

Fast Snap Plus improves upon Fast Snap by providing copyless replication, also known as Redirect-on-write. Fast Snap Plus adds further efficiencies to replicating data volumes, leading to significant cost savings and higher performance. Fast Snap Plus is specifically for customers utilizing XP8 dedup and compression capabilities.

Software compression and dedupe for data reduction. Reduces bit cost and overall TCO for HPE XP8 storage. Data reduction applies to all media – FMD, HDD, NVMe/SAS SSD, and external storage. Block sizes larger than 64K are processed inline, while smaller block sizes are post-processed. Works in conjunction with DKB encryption.

Remote Web Console provides basic single HPE XP8 Storage management. It can be easily accessed by the HPE XP8 Command View AE GUI. If Remote Web Console is used as the only array device manager, it is accessed via a remote IP URL to the SVP. (See user manual for more details). Also note that the SVP shipped with HPE XP8 Storage includes a native CLI/SMI-S provider.

Smart Tiers and Smart Tiers for Mainframe improves storage performance and controls costs by transparently migrating data to appropriate tiers of storage within the HPE XP8 Storage. Smart Tiers manages data in thin provisioning pools. It monitors performance at the page level and can migrate data online to a different tier, automatically or manually, based on policies. Smart Tiers supports up to three tiers per pool. Smart Tiers supports external storage, allowing users to set up inexpensive external storage as one of the storage tiers for infrequently accessed data. RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6 are supported.

Smart Tier and Real-Time Tiering Smart Tier for Mainframe further enhances its tiering capability through real-time tiering enhancement. Apart from period-based tiering ranging from 30 minutes to 24-hour cycle, with real time tiering, the cycle time is reduced to seconds and sub-seconds levels providing rapid response to workload changes. This is specifically beneficial for applications that experience a sudden surge in usage and require the Smart Tier monitor cycle to be less than 30 minutes to respond rapidly to the sudden increase in application usage.

Smart Manager for Mainframe runs on z/OS and provides centralized management of Smart Tiers volumes in a mainframe environment. It works together with Smart Tiers to help mainframe users conveniently and efficiently manage the location of volumes by tier. It allows mainframe storage administrators to transparently manage the location of volumes in a Smart Tiers pool such that SLA requirements can be satisfied. With Smart Manager for Mainframe your storage resources can be further optimized and efficiently utilized.

Auto LUN Software provides web-based automatic or manual monitoring and load balancing for all your HPE XP8 Storage. Now, you can make the most of your arrays by moving high-priority tasks to underutilized volumes, replicating volumes for backup and recovery, and viewing the health of your arrays. You set performance goals, and limits, and HPE XP8 Auto LUN does the rest. It proposes a migration plan and even estimates how much your storage performance will improve when it is done. HPE XP8 Auto LUN lets you evaluate array usage and determine whether resources are overloaded or out of balance. Use its easy-to-follow menus to define when and where data is collected. It makes spotting trends simple, using up to 90 days of stored historical data to create up-to-the-minute reports. You can even export data to third-party analysis tools like Microsoft Excel. If resources are overloaded, HPE XP8 Auto LUN will create a plan to move volumes, then stands by for your approval to make changes.

DLM Advanced for VMware, HPE XP8 DLM Advanced for IBM AIX, HPE XP8 DLM Advanced for Sun Solaris, HPE XP8 DLM Advanced for Windows, and HPE XP8 DLM Advanced for Linux are server-based software tools that provide I/O path failover and load balancing for your HPE XP8s. They offer load balancing to improve performance, while the software's automatic error detection features provide a fault-tolerant infrastructure to avert data stoppages or catastrophic halts. It automatically routes I/Os to an alternate path, and administrators see and manage all I/O activity via an easy-to-use graphical interface - while users see only reliable system performance.

Global Link Manager uses multipath management software path control functionality to provide integrated path management for large sized system configurations. While multipath management software manages paths for a host, HPE XP8 Global Link Manager batch manages paths for multiple hosts.

When you use a large sized system configuration containing many hosts, the workload for managing paths from each host grows in proportion to the size of the system. Global Link Manager enables you to reduce the workload by providing unified management of the path information for the multiple hosts.

FlashCopy® Mirroring Software provides snapshot capability for local copy of mainframe volumes. It enhances data availability for mainframe data and improves productivity by providing IBM FlashCopy® compatible point-in-time copies within an HPE XP8 Storage. As soon as a copy is created, it becomes available for use. The copy can be either virtual or physical. If a virtual copy is specified, it remains a pointer-based copy that only saves the changes from the original. However, if a physical copy is specified, a full copy will be completed in the background while both the source and the copy remain available for access.

For additional availability, FlashCopy® can be combined with Business Copy for Mainframe, Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe, Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe, and HPE XP8 for Compatible Extended Remote Copy.

FlashCopy® Space Efficient- Storage space required by copies can be reduced with FlashCopy® Space Efficient. FlashCopy® SE uses space based on actual data being copied, not based on the S-VOL size, thus reducing the physical capacity used for T-VOLs. which are managed as a track space efficient (TSE) volume. The TSE is a thin provisioned volume subtype for use with FlashCopy® SE. Only the NOCOPY option can be used with Space Efficient FlashCopy® and a whole volume must be used as the S-VOL and T-VOL.

Other base software highlights

LUN Manager

Add paths, delete paths, set host mode, set/reset command device, configure ports, create LUNs, and assign them to ports, configure port security, prevent IOSCAN by unauthorized servers from finding secure LUNs, and check every I/O for proper security.

Optional Software

HPE XP8 for Compatible Extended Remote Copy (XRC)

Provides asynchronous remote copies using IBM's System Data Mover on the mainframe host. Compatible XRC works with the SDM functions for z/OS Global Mirror to provide compatible replication. Required for IBM GDPS/XRC implementations. An excellent mainframe data migration solution for long distances (e.g. intercontinental) if migrating from IBM or HV storage to HPE XP8 storage

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

• − Licensing on one HPE XP8 Storage based on total capacity of XRC P-VOLs. Also, add the total capacity of the XRC S-VOLs on the array if reverse copy will be used for recovery operations.
• − See Capacity-Licensed HPE XP8 Software section

Mainframe Environment

HPE XP8 Mainframe Performance Suite

HPE XP8 Mainframe Performance Suite consists of Compatible PAV, Compatible Hyper PAV, Compatible Super PAV, and High Performance FICON software.

Compatible PAV Enables high performance concurrent access of mainframe volumes by permitting a mainframe host system to issue multiple I/O requests in parallel to individual logical devices within the HPE XP8 Storage. Compatible PAV also enables the use of the multiple allegiance feature in z/OS when using multiple physical mainframes to access the same volumes in a single array. Compatible PAV provides static or dynamic PAV functionality

Compatible Hyper PAV greatly reduces the number of PAV aliases needed per logical subsystem while maintaining response times. PAV aliases are only bound to PAV bases for the duration of a single I/O operation, thus reducing the number of aliases needed. Compatible SuperPAV is an extension of the compatible Hyper PAV architecture and implements multiple logical control units (LCUs) within an alias management group (AMG). With compatible Super PAV, when a new I/O request occurs and there are no alias PAV devices available in the alias pool for the base PAV device’s LCU, z/OS® attempts to use an alias PAV device from another LCU within the AMG subgroup.

High-Performance FICON for System z or zHPF is an enhancement of the FICON channel architecture; which also means compatibility with certain standards such as Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling standard (FC-FS), Fibre Channel Switch Fabric and Switch Control Requirements (FC-SW), and Fibre Channel Single-Byte-4 (FC-SB-4) standards. Enhancements have been made to the z/Architecture® and the FICON interface architecture to deliver improvements for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. zHPF is implemented exclusively in System z10. When High-Performance FICON is exploited by the FICON channel, the z/OS operating system, and the control unit the FICON channel overhead will be reduced. This is achieved by simplification of the protocol, and by reducing the number of information units processed, resulting in more efficient use of the fibre link

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

Mainframe Performance Suite is licensed by usable capacity

HPE XP Mainframe Cyber Resiliency Solution

HPE XP Mainframe Cyber Resiliency solution provides a way to recover systems from logical data corruption caused by a cyber-attack on the mainframe. Protecting the most critical data and operations beyond physical data corruption and outages.

Key features:

• − Customizable to each customer’s unique resiliency requirements.
• − Creates protected backup data that is not affected by a logical data corruption.
• − Enables quick verification and full or partial restoration of protected data.
• − Physically air-gaped and isolated vault that contains protected and immutable cyber-copies.

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

The License-To-Use is customized based on each customer’s unique requirements. Multiples of the following two products will be ordered based on the customization and configuration.

HPE XP8 Online Migration Suite

HPE XP8 Online Migration Suite enables customers to perform the migration of open system volumes themselves through an intuitive user interface. The Online Migration product is used for data migration when replacing storage systems. Supported migration paths: XP7/P9500/XP24000/XP20000 to HPE XP8, XP8 to XP8, and now non-XP to XP8).

Always ON Disaster Recovery: By using Online Migration, you can migrate data including data services like Business Copy configuration data while continuing business non-disruptively. Even if a new storage system is introduced in the future, and the storage system is replaced with a new one, the server can use the new storage system as the same virtual storage machine continuously.

These products have a 120-day fixed-term license.

Notes:

− HPE XP8 Storage also has a services led online data migration offering performed by the trained professionals from HPE Services.

− Some migration paths are only supported when performed by HPE Services.

Product Highlights

• − Truly online – no application outage or rebooting of hosts required
• − Non-disruptive to users /application
• − Supports a wide variety of applications and host operating systems
• − Transparent to host operation
• − Always ON Disaster Recovery
• − Always On Disaster Recovery – before, during and after array migrations
• − Increased disaster tolerance, Reduced risk of data loss
• − Avoids a “no active DR solution” window
• − Minimizes customer admin impacts through intuitive GUI
• − Flexible licensing options – both perpetual and fixed term options available

Support

See Services/Support section

Prerequisites

No prerequisite

Licensing

This product has a 120-day fixed term LTU. Licensing must be purchased for the source and target arrays.

HPE XP8 DKA Encryption Software

HPE XP8 DKA Encryption software enables the encryption capability for all the data that stored on the internal drives of the HPE XP8 Storage. The Enhanced DKA encrypts the data on drives so that data cannot be read off a drive that is removed from the HPE XP8. Only data on the drives is encrypted (data in cache is not encrypted). HPE XP8 provides enhanced security and compliance requirements with FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption. Enabled through license key on Level 2 compliant eDKAs, the encryption protects customer records against large scale attacks and data breaches and meets industry compliance and regulatory requirements.

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

License-to-use for unlimited storage capacity on one HPE XP8 Storage

HPE XP8 External Storage

HPE XP8 External Storage allows you to present data stored on select external storage devices as HPE XP8 Storage LUNs. HPE XP8 External Storage allows you to tier storage capabilities and provision a HPE XP8 solution to optimize return on IT investment - letting you focus high-performance/high availability native HPE XP8 Storage capacity against your most mission-critical data while hosting less critical data on cost optimized external storage subsystems.

HPE XP8 External Storage provides significant consolidation scalability - up to 255 Petabytes (PB) of external storage can be configured behind a single HPE XP8 Storage. Coupled with the significant cost advantages that external storage systems can provide, you can confidently scale your HPE XP8 solution to simplify configuration complexity and reduce ongoing management cost. HPE XP8 External Storage is compatible with a wide range of HPE XP8 software tools, including HPE XP8 Business Copy for local replication, HPE XP8 Continuous Access for remote replication, and HPE XP8 Auto LUN for performance optimization.

Notes: The HPE XP8 External Storage base LTU is included in the base software suite which is included with the purchase of the XP8 array. This product is an LTU to cover the capacity of external storage.

Licensing

The License-To-Use is based on the sum of the total usable external capacity. External storage licensing structure is tiered.

• − HPE XP8 External Capacity Software Suite 1 TB 0-1000 TB LTU
• − HPE XP8 External Capacity Software Suite Unlimited LTU (capacity greater than 1000 TB)

HPE XP8 for Data Exchange

HPE XP8 Data Exchange Software allows seamless data exchange between mainframe and open systems hosts. It provides management of data format and code conversions and allows information sharing across computing platforms.

Product Highlights

• − Mainframe and open systems data managed and stored on single HPE XP8 Storage
• − Automatic data format and code conversions
• − Supports HPE UX, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and AIX Operating Systems

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

License-to-use on a per server basis (per server connected to one HPE XP8 Storage). One License required for each server running HPE XP8 for Data Exchange Software.

HPE XP HDLM Advanced Upgrade

Sole use of this product is to upgrade existing customers using HDLM to HDLM Advanced Suite.

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

1 HDLM Advanced Upgrade LTU required for each HDLM server connected the HPE XP.

HPE XP8 Plug-ins

HPE XP8 Storage supports major plug-ins for VMware, Oracle and Microsoft which are critical for the high-end storage requirements. For the OpenStack community, HPE XP8 Storage has its own cinder driver for integrating with cloud. Below are some major plug-ins for HPE XP8.

HPE XP8 Storage Modules for Red Hat Ansible

HPE XP8 Storage Modules for Red Hat Ansible enables IT and data center administrators to automate and manage the configuration of HPE storage systems. With HPE XP8 Storage Modules for Red Hat Ansible, the administrator can create playbooks together with logic and the other Ansible modules to automate complex tasks. Administrators can filter, sort, and group the information by piping the output from one module to another. HPE XP8 Storage Modules for Red Hat Ansible tasks can be executed by running simple playbooks written in YAML syntax and are idempotent.

HPE XP8 Storage Replication Adapter Software for VMware vCenter SRM

HPE XP8 Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) Software for VMware vCenter SRM. The SRA, developed for HPE XP8, XP7, XP P9500, XP 24000/XP20000, and XP 12000/10000 disk arrays, enables Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to work with Continuous Access array-based replication. The VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) protects VMware’s virtual machine systems from disasters and other emergencies. It streamlines the protection of critical virtual machines with data, and continuously tests their availability for the highest level of business continuity. During SRM configuration, SRA is used to discover local and remote HPE XP8 disk arrays. SRA is also used to discover HPE XP8 DR Groups and ensure DR Group is in synchronized state prior to failing VM from local to remote site.

HPE XP8 Storage Plug-In for VMware vCenter

This plug-in that provides integrated management of XP storage subsystems within vCenter 6.x. The plug-in allows the vCenter 6.x administrator to configure ESX hosts to XP storage subsystems automatically.

XP Storage Adapter for VMware vRealize Log Insight

Log collection and analytics virtual appliance that enables administrators to collect, view, manage and analyze syslog data. Log Insight provides real-time monitoring of application logs, network traces, configuration files, messages and performance data.

XP Storage Adapter for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

Facilitates the automation and orchestration of tasks involving HPE XP Storage. By providing access to HPE storage specific workflows, it augments the capabilities of VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator solution.

HPE XP8 Performance Advisor Adapter for VMware vRops

HPE XP8 Performance Advisor Adapter for VMware vRops 1.0 provides integrated performance and configuration details to the vCenter Operations Manager custom Graphical User Interface (GUI). The software uses the vRops analytics engine to monitor and analyze the performance of the HPE XP8 Storage Array environments.

HPE XP Storage adapter for VMware vCOPS – vCenter Operations Manager

This adapter enables users to bridge the gap between physical and virtual storage infrastructure. Monitor and manage performance and capacity through a single pane of glass.

HPE XP8 Storage Provider for VMware vCenter (VASA Provider)

VVol provides efficient granular storage management at VM level:

• − 1:1 mapping of Virtual Disk to Storage Volume (VVol)
• − Allows native storage services and policies applied at per VM level
• − Heavy VM operations like Clone, Snapshots, Migration offloaded from ESXi Server to Storage system

HPE XP8 VASA provider will match the requests from vSphere (via storage policy profiles) with HPE XP8 Storage (via capability profiles).

HPE XP Storage Adapters for Oracle Database

Enables Oracle Database Administrators to use Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Oracle VM Manager to display and manage Oracle databases, and Oracle Virtual Machines hosted on HPE XP storage infrastructure.

HPE XP Storage Adapter for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

The HPE XP Storage Adapter for Oracle® Linux Virtualization Manager enables Oracle database and virtual machine monitoring using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud

Control and Oracle Linux VM Manager.

HPE XP8 Storage Cinder Volume Driver

To support the need that large organizations and service providers have for enterprise class storage in the cloud:

• − HPE XP8 launches Cinder driver which supports OpenStack technology and is based on Block Storage (Cinder) plug-in architecture
• − Provides flexibility and cost-effectiveness of a cloud based open-source platform to customers with mission-critical requirements

Supports FC protocol. The HPE XP8 Cinder driver will be qualified with OpenStack Liberty release.

HPE XP8 Storage Adapter for Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service

Allows backup and restore operations via coordination between backup applications, line-of-business applications that are being backed up, and the storage management hardware and software. This ultimately enables customers to back up application data without taking the application offline. HP’s provided service offloads the task of creating and maintaining shadow copies from the host operating system.

XP Storage Adapter for Microsoft Powershell

Task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration. Control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

The HPE XP Storage Adapter for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) enables HPE XP storage device configuration, health and alert information to appear in the SCOM console.

HPE XP Storage Plug-in for Containers

Enables collaboration between XP and Docker to create persistent containers for applications that require persistent storage beyond a single host

HPE XP Plug-In for VEEAM Backup and Recovery

Leverage the Veeam Universal Storage API to allow Veeam integration with XP storage arrays for backup and replication jobs, including to and from the cloud.

VAAI vStorage APIs for Array Integration

The HPE Storage VMware® API for Array Integration (VAAI) plugin for HPE XP Storage enables offloading some of the VMware vSphere operations to the storage array. The plug-in offered by HPE supports VAAI primitives such as Write Same, XCOPY, VMSTUN, UNMAP, etc. VAAI interaction is also supported with other XP program products such as Business Copy, Continuous Access, etc.

XP Terraform Storage Adapter

Enables system administrators and Devops environments to quickly and easily automate both core and complex storage-related tasks using Terraform resource files.

Support

See Service & Support section

Licensing

The plug-ins are available for free download from the software depot.

HPE XP Cluster Extension Software

HPE XP Cluster Extension Software offers protection against system downtime to critical applications for enterprise customers deploying HPE XP Storage. It allows for hands-free failover/failback of server-storage system. It detects failures and automatically manages recovery without human intervention, offering comprehensive disaster tolerance against application downtime from fault, failure, or site disaster. HPE XP Cluster Extension Software resurrects your critical applications at a remote site within seconds/minutes after a failover event over both metropolitan and global distances. XP Cluster Extension works seamlessly with your open-system clustering software, HPE XP Continuous Access Software, and your XP Storage system to provide a highly available IT system.

Product Highlights

• − Automatic failover/failback recovery solution for native clusters on Red Hat and SUSE Linux, Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) for Windows
• − Seamless integration of remote mirroring with server clusters
• − Fully scripted turnkey solution for disaster recovery on Linux and Widows

Support

See Service & Support section

Software Prerequisites

• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous (required for synchronous copy mode-integrated solution)
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal (required for asynchronous copy mode-integrated solution)
• − HPE XP8 RAID Manager (required for host agent integration)

Licensing

• − License-to-use either on a per-server node basis or an array basis.
• − Node based: One License is required for each server running XP Cluster Extension Software.
• − Array based: One License is required for every array connected to the server running XP Cluster Extension Software.

HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter

HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter (HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter) provides an interface between VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and HPE XP8 Storage. The interface enables SRM to provide automatic access to remote data copies when virtual machines become unavailable locally.

HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter supports HPE XP8, XP7, XP P9500, XP24000/XP20000, XP12000/XP10000 Disk Arrays.

Product Highlights

HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter performs the following functions for SRM:

• − Discovers disk arrays
• − Discovers replicated LUNs
• − Fails over storage for testing (test a recovery plan)
• − Fails over storage for recovery (execute a recovery plan)

Prerequisites

• − Servers with VMware Site Recovery Manager
• − HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synch and/or HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal installed on both the local and remote HPE XP8 Storage
• − RAID Manager 1.24.13 or later (to support HPE XP8 Storage)
• − Optional: HPE XP8 Business Copy installed on both the local and the remote HPE XP8 Storage

Licensing

• − The HPE XP8 Virtualization Adapter is provided as a free download.

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 QuickSpecs, 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.

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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

For more information

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Other HPE Services

HPE XP Storage Data Migration proven methodology, expertise and tools to help facilitate the XP migration process when migrating data to eligible HPE XP Storage solutions and provide a flexible way to migrate your organization’s critical data and minimize impact on your operations.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA6-7229ENW.pdf

HPE Storage Modernization Service modernize your storage environment to take better advantage of physical or virtualized server environments, all flash, cloud, and object storage solutions.

http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-8498ENW.pdf

HPE Backup and Recovery Efficiency Analysis Service rapid health check of your current backup environment, focusing on operational stability, problem identification, and capacity constraints. The output of this service provides clear metrics and high-level recommendations for your backup environment.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA3-9104ENW.pdf

HPE SAN Deployment Service delivers complete design and implementation services for Fibre Channel, FCoE, FCIP, SAS, and iSCSI SAN connectivity components.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/5981-8527ENW.pdf

HPE Storage Virtual Volume Design and Implementation Service - Activities your organization needs to design and implement a new LUN, virtual volume, or virtual disk (Vdisk) configuration.

HPE Data Replication Solution Service for HPE XP Business Copy enables snapshots and mirroring to facilitate data restores, minimize downtime for backups, perform application testing and support data mining use with decision-support tools.

https://psnow.ext.hpe.com/doc/5982-4153ENN

HPE Data Replication Solution Service for HPE Remote Replication software for HPE XP Disk Array Family configures real-time data mirroring between local and remote storage systems to safeguard critical business information.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/5982-4154enw.pdf

HPE Performance Analysis Service for HPE Storage provides data collection, detailed I/O analysis and enhancement recommendations for HPE Storage arrays.

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00137467enw

HPE Data Sanitization Storage and Server Services provides the skilled resources and tools to help your organization address the need to protect data when your organization is retiring systems, upgrading storage and servers, returning leased equipment, or redeploying data storing devices. Using specialized software techniques, an HPE service specialist or authorized service partner will help ensure that data cannot be reconstructed or retrieved from hard disk media in your server and storage devices. These services offer you a smart alternative or augmentation to physical hardware destruction by executing procedures to remove data from disk media.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/5981-9510ENW.pdf

Each HPE XP8 can be a custom configuration. For more information, please contact your reseller or authorized Hewlett Packard Enterprise representative to work with the requirements to configure the product correctly.