Features and Benefits

HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity enables predictive data analytics

For HPE SimpliVity nodes HPE InfoSight provides system details at the federation, cluster, and host level for historic capacity utilization, trends, resource consumption and prediction. Alleviates support issues and reduces operational expenses with automated wellness alerts and case creation. Provides a unified view of HPE SimpliVity assets such as Datastore, VM, Backups, Capacity, and IOPS.

Fully integrated system

Combines x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a smaller form factor, single-socket, entry level hyperconverged system. Simplifies management and delivers great cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control.

Peak and predictable performance

The all-flash solution provides predictable and linear performance at near‑wire speeds with reduced latency. Software-optimized inline deduplication, compression, and optimization helps minimize I/O and network traffic, improving performance while delivering great storage and bandwidth efficiency.

Scale in and scale out

Easily expand or shrink configurations as your needs change. Each node supports a large number of fully protected virtual machines (VMs), with the networked collection of nodes at both local and remote sites managed as a single entity.

VM centricity and mobility

Enables all actions, policies, and management at the VM level. Global unified management and integration with established administrative systems streamline operations and improve IT agility.

TCO reduction

Single AMD EPYC processor architecture allows for a low-cost, 1U 1P, performance solution for your virtualized workloads with core based hypervisor licensing costs (within the VMware Core count guidelines). Drastically reduce the need to purchase multiple discrete components, optimize storage capacity with guaranteed 10:1 data efficiency, and prevent over-provisioning performance and capacity with on‑demand expansion.

Cloud backup / Cloud storage

HPE SimpliVity with HPE Backup Archive with Cloud Bank Storageallows backing up data to 3^rd party cloud services via StoreOnce**

Secondary backup

HPE SimpliVity with HPE StoreOnce protects data center and distributed edge sites by easily and efficiently replicating applications and data directly to a centralized HPE StoreOnce appliance for compliance and long-term retention requirements. HPE SimpliVity with HPE StoreOnce also supports Data Immutability to protect against ransomware**

Notes: ** Planned for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials in future

Software Overview

Pre-integrated software

• − HPE SimpliVity Startup Wizard

Virtualization Platform Software and Licenses

Broadcom VMware

• − VMware vSphere installation media is required to complete the installation when ordering HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11
• − Valid licenses for the following VMware software components are required when ordering HPE SimpliVity 325 nodes.

  • − VMware vSphere license(s) per node: customer to procure from authorized distributor.
  • − VMware vCenter license: customer to procure from authorized distributor.

Notes:

− HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 supports VMware vSphere ESXi

− HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 for VMware vSphere requires valid VMware vSphere, and vCenter licenses.

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• − Customer registers and activates license key for HPE SimpliVity Software allowing them to install and deploy HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for 5yr or 3yr terms.
• − HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software license is embedded as part of the HPE SimpliVity Software license

Management for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• − HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
• − HPE SimpliVity management through VM Essentials Manager

Management for Broadcom VMware

• − HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
• − VMware vCenter for Broadcom VMware
• − HPE SimpliVity management plugin for VMware vCenter
• − HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition

HPE Services

No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, you can count on HPE Services to deliver the expertise you need when, where and how you need it. From planning to deployment, ongoing operations and beyond, our experts can help you realize your digital ambitions.

https://www.HPE.com/services

Consulting Services

No matter where you are in your journey to hybrid cloud, experts can help you map out your next steps. From determining what workloads should live where, to handling governance and compliance, to managing costs, our experts can help you optimize your operations.

https://www.HPE.com/services/consulting

HPE Managed Services

HPE runs your IT operations, providing services that monitor, operate, and optimize your infrastructure and applications, delivered consistently and globally to give you unified control and let you focus on innovation.

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Operational services

Optimize your entire IT environment and drive innovation. Manage day-to-day IT operational tasks while freeing up valuable time and resources. Meet service-level targets and business objectives with features designed to drive better business outcomes.

https://www.HPE.com/services/operational

HPE Complete Care Service

HPE Complete Care Service is a modular, edge-to-cloud IT environment service designed to help optimize your entire IT environment and achieve agreed upon IT outcomes and business goals through a personalized experience. All delivered by an assigned team of HPE Services experts. HPE Complete Care Service provides:

• − A complete coverage approach -- edge to cloud
• − An assigned HPE team
• − Modular and fully personalized engagement
• − Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
• − Digitally enabled and AI driven customer experience

https://www.HPE.com/services/completecare

HPE Tech Care Service

HPE Tech Care Service is the operational support service experience for HPE products. The service goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Tech Care Service delivers a customer-centric, AI driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward. HPE Tech Care Service is available in three response levels. Basic, which provides 9x5 business hour availability and a 2-hour response time. Essential which provides a 15-minute response time 24x7 for most enterprise level customers, and Critical which includes a 6-hour repair commitment where available and outage management response for severity 1 incidents.

https://www.HPE.com/services/techcare

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

Other Related Services from HPE Services:

HPE Education Services

Training and certification designed for IT and business professionals across all industries. Broad catalogue of course offerings to expand skills and proficiencies in topics ranging from cloud and cybersecurity to AI and DevOps. Create learning paths to expand proficiency in a specific subject. Schedule training in a way that works best for your business with flexible continuous learning options.

https://www.HPE.com/services/training

Defective Media Retention

An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.

Consult your HPE Sales Representative or Authorized Channel Partner of choice for any additional questions and services options.

Parts and Materials

HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements.

Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.

How to Purchase Services

Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:

• − Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
• − Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find services at https://ssc.HPE.com/portal/site/ssc/

AI Powered and Digitally Enabled Support Experience

Achieve faster time to resolution with access to product-specific resources and expertise through a digital and data driven customer experience

Sign into the HPE Support Center experience, featuring streamlined self-serve case creation and management capabilities with inline knowledge recommendations. You will also find personalized task alerts and powerful troubleshooting support through an intelligent virtual agent with seamless transition when needed to a live support agent.

https://support.HPE.com/hpesc/public/home/signin

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

http://www.HPE.com/services

Capacity options for Broadcom VMware

Capacity options for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

Step 3: The software license that corresponds to the node configuration will be automatically added.

HPE SimpliVity Software

Action: Based on the number of CPUs in the node, the appropriate software will be included by the configurator

HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 Storage Expansion Overview for Broadcom VMware

Notes: Please note that Storage expansion is only for Perpetual licensing. If you need Term licenses, please reach out to HPE representatives

Use the following steps to expand Storage for your existing HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 node:

Step 1:Start with the HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 Node/Tracking SKU & Select the option “HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 expansion”

Step 2: Select the Disk Resiliency option

Step 3: Select the Storage Drive Capacity Expansion

Step 4: Service and support will be added automatically to perform the storage upgrade, migration, install and redeployment

Step 4: Select service and support to perform the storage upgrade, migration, install and redeployment

HPE provides a full range of support offers for these products. Tech Care is the minimum level of support, but Complete Care is also available.

Contact your local sales representative or channel partner for more details.

Installation services are required for these products. HA124A1#5ZD needs to be ordered in a quantity matching the sum of the software SKUs from Step 2.

HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 and 325 Gen10 Plus V2: Storage Expansion Overview

Use the following steps to expand Storage for your existing HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 or 325 Gen10 Plus v2 node:

Step 1: Start with the Expansion SKU

Step 2: Add the SW license that correlates to either storage expansion options

Step 3: Select the hardware options to add the storage drive kits

Step 4: Select service and support to perform the storage upgrade, migration, install and redeployment

Step 2: If Storage expansion is needed, add the SW license from below that correlates to the desired expansion configuration

Action: Select the appropriate SW license according to the desired storage expansion configuration.

Choose from one of the following Redeployment Storage Expansion choices

325 x4 SSD → 325 x6 SSD

325 x6 SSD → 325 x8 SSD (only on HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus V2 models)

Step 3: Select the hardware options to add either the storage drive kits or additional CPU and memory

Action: Select quantity 2 of the same SSD type from the following SSD options, based on the desired storage expansion configuration. For example, in the configurator you can only select qty2 of P44009-K21 or qty2 of P40543-K21, you cannot mix and match two different vendor types.

Step 4: Select service and support to perform the storage upgrade, migration, install and redeployment

HPE provides a full range of support offers for these products. Tech Care is the minimum level of support, but Complete Care is also available.

Contact your local sales representative or channel partner for more details.

Installation services are required for these products. HA124A1#5ZD needs to be ordered in a quantity matching the sum of the software SKUs from Step 2.