HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure is a software-defined storage solution that extends the enterprise-class capabilities of HPE Alletra MP B10000 to Azure.

Delivered and managed via the HPE GreenLake cloud, it lets you simplify operations and innovate faster with unified management, consistent data services and seamless data mobility across hybrid cloud.

What’s New

• − One experience – everywhere: HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure delivers one consistent AI-driven experience across hybrid cloud. It simplifies management, enhances productivity, and keeps you in control wherever your apps and data are located.
• − Seamless data mobility: HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure gives you the freedom to move data and migrate apps everywhere—as business requirements evolve. This seamless data mobility across hybrid cloud enables you to maximize agility, enhance data protection, and boost innovation.
• − Enterprise-class storage services wherever your apps are: HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure helps you optimize cloud storage costs and increase application performance while enhancing resilience, scalability, and security.

Hardware

• − HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure is powered entirely by Microsoft Azure native services, including Compute (Azure Virtual Machines) and Storage (Azure Managed Disks).

Unify your on-premises and cloud environments with one cloud experience

• − Unified storage management: Manage, monitor, and protect global storage environments across your hybrid cloud data estate—consistently and securely at scale—from a single cloud console on the HPE GreenLake cloud. An intuitive software-as-a-service (SaaS)–based user experience means everything you need to manage your fleet of data infrastructure on-prem and in the public cloud is at your fingertips — accessible from anywhere, on any device.
• − Simplified deployment: Deploy new HPE Alletra Block Storage instances in Azure in minutes—directly from the HPE GreenLake cloud. Simply select the name of the storage array and the subscription, choose the target Azure region and availability zone, and click create—HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure will do the rest. In a few clicks, your new storage system is configured, deployed, and available in Azure—ready to serve data for application workloads.
• − Self-service provisioning: Empower your line-of-business owners and app admins to self-provision storage to accelerate app deployment—freeing up IT resources to work on strategic, higher-value initiatives. To provision a volume in Azure, simply select the desired storage tier and workload type, specify the capacity and protection policy. No storage expertise required, and no more guesswork.
• − A wealth of cloud services on one platform: Get fast and easy access to the largest array of storage services in a single platform—spanning block, file, object and private cloud,—all delivered with an intuitive cloud experience

Move data where it needs to be with seamless data mobility

• − Bridge the divide between on-premises and cloud; Easily move data across hybrid cloud as cost, performance, or regulatory needs change. With HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure you can effortlessly, seamlessly, and rapidly move data between HPE Storage on-prem and in Azure, as well as between different regions in Azure. Moreover, you can utilize IT resources strategically by easily migrating virtual machine (VM) and container workloads to and from the cloud without costly application refactoring or staff retraining.
• − Simple, cost-effective DR and business continuity: Extend your multilayered on-prem data protection and business continuity capabilities to Azure with enterprise-grade snapshots, replication, and backups. Now, you can protect your on-prem and cloud-native workloads with native replication to Azure for disaster recovery (DR) - delivering near-zero RTOs and RPOs and mitigating the need for secondary DR sites.
• − Help maximize developer agility and innovation: With HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure, you can accelerate development cycles and expand your testing capabilities. It lets you develop software on-premises or in the cloud and deploy to either target faster using an agile and efficient DevTest environment. You can leverage space-efficient snapshots and clones to quickly spin up a DevTest sandbox on-prem or in Azure. This enables you to test new apps, patches, and updates instantly without impacting the production environment and without having to purchase and deploy new hardware on-prem.

Extend the proven capabilities of on-prem block storage to public cloud.

• − Reduce your cloud storage costs: The industry-leading data reduction technologies of HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure can help reduce your cloud storage costs on Azure. Storage is always thin-provisioned, deduped, and compressed—giving you superior efficiency for your workloads in Azure. This allows you to improve your cloud storage TCO, optimize your cloud spend and storage usage, as well as reduce any future ingress/egress charges.
• − Run business-critical apps in the cloud: With HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure, you get enterprise-class performance, scalability, and resiliency for the most demanding database, virtualization, and container workloads—both on prem and in the cloud. With all the proven capabilities of enterprise on-premises block storage now available in the public cloud, you can run any block-based workload in the cloud with confidence.
• − Maintain security and compliance across hybrid cloud: Strengthen your defenses with integrated, native security across your entire IT estate. HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure helps accelerate zero trust adoption with role-based access control, single sign-on, encryption, and federated identity control for its features and capabilities.

The performance levels of HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure are dependent on the underlying Azure infrastructure components.

The offer is supported on regions where the required Azure services are available. For more information, please refer to Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HPE Storage Products (SPOCK): http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Host OS Support

Windows server 2022 | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

Host OS support varies by connectivity protocol to host. For the latest information on supported operating systems refer to Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HPE Storage Products (SPOCK): http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock