Every organization wants to unleash the power of its data to drive digital transformation. But fragmented data management tools, manual processes, and infrastructure silos spanning edge to cloud are impeding data-driven innovation and agility and creating business risk.

HPE Data Ops Manager – delivered through the Data Services Cloud Console – break down the barriers and remove the complexity that beset data and infrastructure management today—empowering organizations to transform faster with unified data operations as a service. It’s a suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to bring the cloud experience to wherever data lives, unify data management across the data lifecycle, and accelerate innovation for data-driven apps and insights.

At A Glance

HPE Data Ops Manager are consumed through the Data Services Cloud Console, a cloud-native destination that abstracts and orchestrates infrastructure and data workflows from edge-to-cloud. Data Services Cloud Console transforms complex data operations into a simplified and integrated experience across clouds through a comprehensive set of cloud platform services, cloud infrastructure services, and cloud data services.

Key Features and Benefits

Deliver cloud operations for data infrastructure

Organizations want the cloud agility for their data infrastructure wherever it’s located — be that on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud. By separating the control plane from the underlying hardware and moving it to the cloud, Data Services Cloud Console offers a SaaS console that delivers HPE Data Ops Manager to unify management silos under a single web interface with global visibility and a consistent experience from edge to cloud. This abstraction of control enables a suite of cloud infrastructure services that radically simplifies how customers manage infrastructure at scale, and across the lifecycle.

HPE Data Ops Manager – delivered through the Data Services Cloud Console - are designed to simplify data operations by providing a single destination for a comprehensive set of data and infrastructure services.

Cloud infrastructure services automate infrastructure management at scale, bringing cloud operational agility across the lifecycle – from deployment to upgrade.

Two services are initially introduced:

HPE Data Ops Manager Portfolio

HPE Data Ops Manager to simplify Infrastructure Operations with cloud agility

HPE Data Ops Manager lets customers manage their fleet from anywhere - simplifying infrastructure operations with cloud agility. It delivers global unified management, enabling customers to manage data infrastructure across edge to cloud from a single web interface. Everything organizations need to easily manage their fleet of data infrastructure across its lifecycle is available at their fingertips with an intuitive SaaS-based user experience – accessible from anywhere and from any device. Deploy apps faster by transforming provisioning from LUN-based to intent-based. Orchestrate infrastructure workflows at scale so managing hundreds of systems is as simple as managing one. Deploy, manage infrastructure on demand with simple

discovery, activation, and configurations. Everything is delivered as-a-service, so for our customers there is no software to deploy, manage or maintain.

Capabilities include:

• − Dashboard of systems with capacity distribution based on Tiers, top 5 systems listing by capacity and performance at system and volume level
• − Snapshot management
• − Rapid provisioning of clones
• − Alerts and notifications
• − Capacity and performance trends
• − Availability and capacity management
• − Audit logging
• − Role based access controls
• − Configure replication partners
• − Software update notifications
• − Perform software update for a storage system
• − Self-upgrade of drives, enclosures and node upgrade on HPE Alletra Storage 9000 systems
• − Self-upgrade for drives on HPE Alletra Storage 6000 systems
• − Group and Pool management for HPE Alletra Storage 6000 systems
• − Automatic software update support for HPE Alletra Storage 6000 and HPE Nimble Storage
• − One-step software updates allows installation of each update in the sequence of updates from the current software version to the target version
• − Serviceability of components for HPE Alletra 6000 for Drive, USB boot drive, Fan, and Controllers
• − Serviceability of components for HPE Alletra 9000 and Primera systems for physical drives
• − Enhanced reporting capabilities for HPE Alletra Storage B10000, HPE Alletra 9000 and HPE Primera 600 Storage systems:

  • • Two new charts have been added to trend I/O Size and Queue Length
  • • Pre-defined templates are available for top volume paths by read latency, top volume sets by read IOPS, top host ports by write throughput
  • • Customize views by resource type for volumes, volume sets, host ports and hosts with Top-6 or Select-10 with sorting by metric
  • • View and compare performance metrics across remote copy links using the custom reports
  • • Reports can be downloaded as CSV or PDF
• − Enhanced reporting capabilities for HPE Alletra Storage 6000, HPE Storage Alletra 5000 and HPE Nimble Storage systems:

  • • Three charts available to show IOPS, throughput and latency trends for Volume(s) and Pool(s).
  • • Two predefined templates have been added: Top volume by read latency and write latency that can be customized by resource type for volumes with Top-6 sorting by metric or Select-10 and for Pools with Select-10
  • • Reports can be downloaded as CSV or PDF
• − Extended reporting that helps analyze and troubleshoot performance issues of a storage system and its volumes:

  • • Headroom utilization with analysis breakdown by Top-5 volume contribution available for HPE Alletra Storage MP B1000, HPE Alletra Storage 9000, and HPE Primera 600 storage systems
  • • Top Volume Hotspots by Latency provides anomaly detection to identify outliers available for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
• − Data-at-rest encryption support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, HPE Alletra Storage 9000, and HPE Primera storage systems
• − Replication support between HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, HPE Alletra Storage 9000 and HPE Primera 600 storage systems
• − Support wildcard (*) for iSCSI Initiator

For the latest updates please refer to Data Ops Manager release notes in GreenLake Platform.

Block Storage an easy-to-use service that abstracts managing hardware for application owners and provides on-prem cloud experience. Capabilities include:

• − Lifecycle of Block Provisioning
• − Intent based provisioning of application data with recommendation of headroom availability, which indicates the relative ability of a storage system to support a proposed workload without experiencing performance degradation. Furthermore, with a remote protection policy for the volumes, recommendation is based on headroom availability in the source and partner systems
• − Dashboard and inventory of volumes
• − Pre-defined protection policies for both local and remote protection
• − Replication and Management of restore points
• − Customize columns in table view for volume inventory
• − Create volumes without exporting to a host group
• − Customize LUN ID while creating volumes
• − View host paths information in host detail page
• − Create and manage volume clones
• − Virtual lock support for HPE Alletra 9000 and HPE Primera systems
• − Extended reporting for volume-level insights for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000system:

  • • Latency variation insights, mapped as annotations to the Latency chart
  • • Workload drift insights, mapped as annotations to the Throughput chart
• − Multi-factor authentication support for HPE Alletra Storage 5000, HPE Alletra Storage 6000 and HPE Nimble Storage systems
• − New protection panel that displays the level of protection applied to the volumes in the data center

For the latest updates please refer to Block Storage release notes in HPE GreenLake Platform.

Setup Service is a cloud-based app that uses wizards to help you set up and initialize newly installed HPE Alletra storage systems. Initialization includes checks of hardware readiness, power redundancy, optimal data cabling, and health of the components. Initial set of capabilities include:

• − HPE Alletra Setup wizard guides the user for initial setup of the system
• − HPE Alletra Blueprint wizard guides the user to create blueprints that can be applied for one or more system.

Intent-based Provisioning

Intent-based Provisioning eliminates guesswork and spreadsheets by ensuring workloads are always deployed on the right resource. It leverages real-time context into resource headroom and application-specific SLAs to optimize where your data is stored —automatically.

Intent-based provisioning, combined with role-based access control, enables self-service provisioning without the need for storage expertise. It enables developers to deploy applications faster by shortening data infrastructure provisioning from days to minutes. This accelerates application development cycles and makes possible the effortless app-provisioning experience demanded by today’s fast-paced dev/ops processes.

Cloud Platform Services Powered by a Proven Platform

Data Services Cloud Console is built on a proven cloud platform which provides:

• − Proven Technology: Built on the trusted technology foundation of HPE Aruba Networking Central, which today has several years in the field, serving 90,000 customers and millions of end devices connected to clusters deployed around the world
• − Secure by Design: This foundation ensures the secure management of global infrastructure and data services with multi-level advanced security capabilities that include encrypted connectivity to assets through certificates and tunnels, multi-factor authentication, auditing, and role-based access control policies
• − Cloud Native: Data Services Cloud Console is architected as a framework of microservices and workflows which enables the rapid development, deployment, and scaling of new services with a consistent user experience. It provides the foundation for a portfolio of HPE data services that will become seamlessly available to customers to simplify how they manage infrastructure and data.

Cloud Platform Services consist of a group of microservices, developed to provide infrastructure for cloud operations and data management services. These services are not standalone services, but rather enablers or components of higher-level applications. Each of these microservices is leveraged by multiple customer-facing standalone services. The advantage of having a set of common foundational services is twofold: it provides consistent customer experience across applications and improves efficiency in developing and bringing those applications to market.

These microservices deliver a spectrum of visibility as far as the customer is concerned. Two examples follow to illustrate. The Tunnel service is an example of an “invisible” microservice, meaning that is totally transparent to the user. The “Global Search microservice, on the other hand, illustrates an example of one directly usable (visible) to the customer.

Tunnel Microservice

It provides an essential, secure link between the customer-facing cloud service and on-premises elements/devices that the service needs to interface with (for instance, a storage array). Any service talking to an on-premises device will leverage this service. HPE Data Ops Manager will use this service to get information from the array on available capacity, events, or any other array-specific information that needs to be collected.

Any service talking to an on-premise device will leverage this service. HPE Data Ops Manager will use this service to receive information from the array on available capacity, events, or any other array-specific information that needs to be collected.

Available microservices:

• − Public APIs (coming later in the year)
• − UI Portal
• − Tunnel Connectivity
• − Tasks
• − Audit
• − Role based access Control (Authorization)
• − Issues/Alerts
• − Authentication.

Startup and Configuration

Getting your HPE Data Ops Manager application ready to manage your array requires 3 simple steps.

• 1. Provisioning the Subscription Key
• 2. Onboarding your device after account creation (first time only)
• 3. Connecting your array to Data Services Cloud Console.

Step 1: Provisioning the Subscription Key

When acquiring your new HPE Alletra Storage Array, a new HPE Data Ops Manager subscription is included. You will need to activate your subscription key by using the standard HPE software subscription process.

Here are the basic steps:

• − Before your storage device leaves the HPE Factory, you will receive an e-mail confirming your order, and providing a link to "HPE Software Center" to activate your subscription key
• − Click on the embedded link and proceed to "My HPE SW Center"
• − For existing customers, please log in with your HPE Passport credentials and follow the instructions
• − New users can easily create an HPE Passport account in the same page, if they do not have one
• − After successful log in, users will be presented with a summary of their order
• − Proceed to activate the subscription
• − You will arrive at a downloadable page containing the array serial number (SN), the Subscription key, and cloud.hpe.com/portal
• − Save this information, which will be required for device onboarding in the application.

Step 2: Onboarding your device.

Proceed to setup your accounts and onboard your application and device:

• − Login to cloud.hpe.com/portal to set up your user account (first time only)
• − Next, you will be asked to create your Cloud Account. This represents your company account and will contain all your users, devices, and applications. This will be done the first time only by the customer’s cloud account administrator
• − Proceed to the Application Catalogue. Select Data Services Cloud Console and Region to provision the Instance. An instance is a compute cluster running in one of the HPE Regions. They are needed to provide adequate scalability and to be compliant with data sovereignty regulations
• − The steps above are all done only the first time
• − Now you can add your storage device (done every time you add a new device). Navigate to the device management section and select --> add device. Provide the requested information: SN and subscription key
• − The device will now appear in the Global inventory for the Account
• − The final step is to assign the device to the specific Data Services Cloud Console instance. Currently, you can have up to three (3) instances. First, navigate to Device management --.> assign device. Select the device, and complete the assignment
• − You can now navigate to the main dashboard and proceed to Data Services Cloud Console.