HPE Private Cloud Enterprise is a fully managed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that delivers a self-service cloud experience to customer IT cloud and data center administrators, application developers and DevOps teams

This service relieves organizations from the burden of managing the lifecycle of hardware and software and allows them to instead focus their resources on activities that are core to their business while HPE takes care of the underlying platform. The service enables customers to consume compute, storage, and networking resources, giving teams the ability to choose from Bare-metal, virtual machines (VMs, including both ESXi and HVM hypervisor options), and/or container clusters all deployed onto a common pool of cloud infrastructure. Backed by enterprise-grade availability SLAs and a cloud provider responsibility model, the service is built to handle the most demanding on-premises applications.

Key Features and Benefits

• − Cloud modules: Standardized cloud infrastructure that provides workload-optimized compute instances, storage capacity, and network connections to allow customers to meet their diverse workload requirements. The service is enabled by these cloud modules which are designed to provide customers with choice, automation, and faster time to value.
• − Bare-metal: The service allows customers to provision dedicated physical compute resources without a virtualization layer. Bare-metal instances are ideal for workloads that need direct access to the physical hardware, or are sensitive to the performance overhead of virtualization. Customers can choose from any of the supported instance types that have been deployed within their private cloud.
• − Virtual machines: The service allows customers to provision virtual machine instances that can be used to deploy and run their choice of HVM (Ubuntu Linux) or ESXi-based workloads through a single management interface. Customers can request multiple VM clusters that consist of different compute instance types and sizes allowing them to optimize cost and performance for different virtual workloads. VMware clusters use NSX-T to provide advanced software-defined networking functions.
• − Containers: The service allows customers to dynamically provision Kubernetes clusters on which they can securely deploy and scale their containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• − IAM and RBAC: The service supports authentication (including MFA) to tightly control customer access to private cloud resources and services. It also provides granular RBAC to govern which specific users or groups of users can access specific resources and platform functions. It allows creation of custom roles or selection from predefined role categories.
• − UI, API, and IaC: Customers can access and consume the service through a rich and intuitive graphical user interface accessible through the HPE GreenLake cloud. It provides a secure, standard interface to provision, configure, and manage their IT infrastructure through APIs. It includes IaC functionality through Terraform providers to manage resource lifecycles across all services.
• − External Cloud Integration: The service provides a cloud management platform that can be integrated with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Azure public cloud and Google Cloud Platform and pre-existing customer VMware clusters.
• − Consumption Analytics: The service includes Consumption Analytics, which provides users with the ability to analyze cost and usage data. Consumption Analytics has capabilities for creating custom dashboards, cost and usage reports and budgeting, and capacity usage reports. The tools in Consumption Analytics deliver a unified view of historical cost and usage data for both service resources and onboarded public cloud resources
• − Service Implementation: HPE delivers the factory-built system to data centers owned or managed by the customer or at an HPE GreenLake contracted colocation facility. Implementation provides a fully installed and ready-to-consume environment.
• − Service Management: The service includes comprehensive management operations, including proactive monitoring, incident resolution, on-site repair and replacement of system components, solution lifecycle management, and capacity management. It includes relationship management, a governance process, and clearly defined systems operations and administrative activities.
• − Educational Services: The service includes one-year access to a pre-defined quantity of HPE Education Learning Credits.
• − Digital Circuit Breaker Service: Digital circuit breaker is a separately billed capability that allows customers to temporarily gain local access to HPE Private Cloud Enterprise in a ‘break glass’ scenario, where the customer must respond to network security threats by disconnecting from the internet. This ensures that customers can continue to manage their workloads in an offline state for a limited time. Once the threat is mitigated and internet connectivity is restored, the system can be securely reconnected to the HPE GreenLake cloud. This service supports business continuity while maintaining strong, adaptive protection.