HPE SimpliVity
Table of Contents
- HPE SimpliVity
- HPE SimpliVity software specifications
- HPE SimpliVity hardware specifications
- HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11
- HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus
- HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11
- HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2
- HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 model specifications
- HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus model specifications
- HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 model specifications
- HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 model specifications
- Resources
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General portfolio information
Q. What is the HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee?
A. It is HPE’s performance guarantee backing up the simplicity, efficiency, and power of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged technology. To learn more about HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged technology and hear what customers are saying about the HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee, visit hpe.com/info/hyperguarantee.
Q. Is there HPE SimpliVity solution training available?
A. For HPE Internal and Partners, access the full HPE SimpliVity curriculum specific to your job role at My Learning.
Q. Is there a list of HPE SimpliVity customer success stories?
A. Yes. A list of customer success stories is available at the following link: upshotstories.com/search?q=simplivity.
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Centrally-managed Federation
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity Management Virtual Appliance and what does it do?
A. The Management Virtual Appliance is a dedicated virtual machine that provides centralized management and coordination of operations across clusters of HPE SimpliVity hosts. This highly available infrastructure component is used to optimize resources and network utilization across the HPE SimpliVity Federation. There is one Management Virtual Appliance per VMware vCenter Server®. Refer to the HPE SimpliVity Administration Guide located at hpe.com/support/simplivity-admin-doc for more details.
Q. What are the main features that the HPE SimpliVity Management Virtual Appliance introduced?
A. The HPE SimpliVity Management Virtual Appliance allows a single VMware vCenter® to manage up to 96 nodes in an HPE SimpliVity Federation. HPE SimpliVity Federations that do not use the HPE SimpliVity Management Virtual Appliance require three VMware vCenter to manage 96 nodes in a Federation.
Arbiter
Q. What are the witness or the arbiter requirements for HPE SimpliVity?
A. Since HPE SimpliVity 4.0, the Arbiter is only required for 2 nodes in a cluster or stretch-cluster deployments. It is recommended for 4 nodes in a cluster deployment. The Arbiter is not required for a single node in a cluster or 3 or more nodes in a cluster deployment.
RBAC
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity support role-based access control (RBAC)?
A. Yes. Starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.0, RBAC for VMware® deployments is supported. The HPE SimpliVity RBAC has 2 different user roles, Administrator and Backup User. Refer to the HPE SimpliVity Administration Guide located at hpe.com/support/simplivity-admin-doc for more details.
HPE InfoSight
Q. Is HPE InfoSight available for HPE SimpliVity?
A. Yes, HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity is available.
Q. What HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity features are available since the release?
A. The following features are available:
- Visibility—Provides system details at the Federation, cluster, node (includes entitlement status of the node), virtual machine, and backup level. Information is updated every 24 hours. Heartbeat information from hosts every 5 min
- Predictive analytics—Insights into historical cluster capacity consumption and prediction to full
- Proactive wellness alerts—Alleviates support issues and reduces operational expenses with automated wellness alerts and case creation
- VM resource utilization—Visibility to VM neighbors and insights into VM storage utilization to identify high-consuming VMs and implement corrective actions
- View of all HPE assets
Q. Can I view external backups from the HPE InfoSight portal?
A. There is a new Backups view, which shows the details of local, remote, and external backups for a VM. This includes HPE StoreOnce and HPE Cloud Bank Storage.
Q. Can you subscribe to email notifications?
A. Customers can also subscribe to the 5-minute heartbeat alerts via email, which helps in seeing SSD and HDD issues in near real time on the portal.
Q. Is the HPE SimpliVity server hardware monitored as well?
A. Yes, since HPE SimpliVity 4.1.2, HPE SimpliVity hardware is monitored periodically for registered customers without needing to install any additional software. Refer to the HPE InfoSight for Servers guide for more details on capabilities.
External storage—HPE StoreOnce and HPE Cloud Bank Storage
Q. Can HPE SimpliVity backups be stored outside the HPE SimpliVity Federation?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 4.0 and above supports HPE StoreOnce allowing backups completed by HPE SimpliVity to be stored on HPE StoreOnce storage. With HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1 onward, copy backups to HPE Cloud Bank Storage are supported.
Q. Why would a customer require a secondary backup device such as HPE StoreOnce?
A. HPE StoreOnce for HPE SimpliVity is a good option for customers who need a secondary backup device that sits outside the HPE SimpliVity Federation to adhere to compliance or backup policies. Other use cases include the need for a long-term, lower-cost archive solution or to aggregate ROBO (remote office / branch office) data into one centralized device.
Q. Why would customers use HPE Cloud Bank Storage?
A. Customers can enable simple and efficient backup to the cloud for long-term retention, disaster recovery, and archiving. They can leverage the cloud platform of their choice, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, and Scality. HPE Cloud Bank Storage reduces the cost of storing the data in the cloud, as well as the cost of writing and accessing the cloud-stored backup data through deduplication. Refer to the HPE StoreOnce QuickSpecs for licensing and configuration details.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity support Catalyst Copy?
A. Yes, starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1, Copy Backup can be leveraged to copy backups using Catalyst Copy from one catalyst end point to another for external storage.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity support HPE StoreOnce data immutability?
A. Yes, from HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1 onward, governance level of HPE StoreOnce data immutability is supported.
Q. Can HPE SimpliVity back up to HPE StoreOnce over a WAN connection or should HPE StoreOnce be colocated with the HPE SimpliVity environment?
A. Yes, starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0, backup to HPE StoreOnce over WAN is supported.
Q. Are backups to and restores from external storage optimized?
A. Yes, backups to external storage are optimized. From HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1 onward, restores from external storage are also optimized.
HPE SimpliVity lifecycle management
Q. What are the benefits of HPE SimpliVity’s streamlined deployment with side-loaded OVC and hypervisor images?
A. Starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.0.1, a new side-loaded deployment option is available. The side-loaded option makes deploying HPE SimpliVity nodes more efficient by decreasing the time required to upload HPE SimpliVity software on remote deployments.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity offer the capability to run a stand-alone pre-deployment check?
A. Ever since HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0, HPE SimpliVity Deployment Manager offers the capability to run a stand-alone deployment check without deploying a Federation.
Q. How does the Pre-check Utility help me?
A. Pre-check Utility runs the same validation process as the HPE SimpliVity Deployment Manager but stops after the validation and provides the report of the deployment success criteria against each component. This allows customers and IT admin team to rectify the dependencies, make necessary changes to the environment, and keep the environment ready for deployment at the right time, reducing the time around validating and troubleshooting at the time of build.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity allow independent upgrade of firmware or VMware ESXi™?
A. Yes, starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1, firmware and ESXi are decoupled from HPE SimpliVity Upgrade Manager. This allows customers to do intermediate upgrade of firmware or ESXi with the upgrade manager without needing to wait for the next HPE SimpliVity release.
Stretch cluster
Q. Can HPE SimpliVity nodes configured in a stretch cluster support VDI workloads?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 4.0.1 or later can run linked-clone VDI desktops in stretch clusters.
Single replica datastores
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity support single replica datastores?
A. Yes, single replica datastores can be created to store virtual machines running workloads where high availability is provided at the application level and is not required at the datastore level.
Q. Can I change the replica type once I create a single replica datastore?
A. The replica type cannot be changed after the datastore is created.
Backup reporting
Q. Can HPE SimpliVity generate a backup report for audit and compliance verification?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 4.0.1 and later can generate backup reports for audit and compliance verification. With HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0, customers can generate a backup report for external storage, as well. From HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1, customers can generate a backup report without needing a Management Virtual Appliance, i.e., without converting a peer-managed Federation to a centrally-managed Federation.
Q. Can backup reporting be scheduled or sent over email?
A. Currently, backup reporting is available in a CSV format in both the VMware vSphere® UI with the backup reporting functionality and in HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity, under the Backups tab.
Bandwidth throttling
Q. Is it possible to place restrictions on the bandwidth consumed by remote replication?
A. Yes, starting with HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0, there is a procedure that can adjust bandwidth throttling for remote replication, to reduce the chance of it starving HPE SimpliVity management traffic or other applications. It is recommended to contact support for enabling bandwidth throttling for HPE SimpliVity backup and restore operations.
HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity RapidDR?
A. HPE SimpliVity RapidDR is an automated, simplified off-site disaster recovery solution that provides VM protection across primary and secondary sites. This solution is a good lightweight user-based application that is an alternative to VMware Site Recovery Manager™.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity RapidDR work with external storage?
A. Yes, from HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 3.5, copying, moving backups to external storage, and restoring from backups in external storage is supported.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity RapidDR support Source Site Retention for Linux® virtual machines?
A. Yes,HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 3.6 supports both Linux and Windows guest virtual machines for both DHCP and static network configuration.
Q. Which workflow supports the Network Bubble in HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 3.6?
A. Network Bubble is a feature of the Test Failover Workflow of HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 3.6.
Sizing
Q. How can I access HPE SimpliVity sizing tools to ensure quoted HPE SimpliVity solutions are best aligned to customer performance and scale requirements?
A. To collect data from customer’s environments,HPE CloudPhysics can be used for VMware environments while HPE Storage Assessment Foundry (SAF) can be used for non-VMware environments.
HPE employees can find the sizing tool here: HPE SimpliVity Sizer.
HPE partners can find the tool here: HPE SimpliVity Sizer.
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Technical information—Memory
Q. How much memory is supported in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports from 144 GB up to 8 TB of RAM per node. Dual-socket configurations may be required to achieve some capacity points. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 380 QuickSpecs.
Q. How much memory is supported in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports from 128 GB up to 8 TB of RAM per node. Dual-socket configurations may be required to achieve some capacity points. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 380 QuickSpecs.
Technical information—CPUs
Q. What types of CPUs are available on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports Intel® Xeon® 3rd Gen Scalable processor CPUs (Ice Lake) with up to 40 cores.
Q. What types of CPUs are available on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable processor CPUs (Sapphire Rapids) with up to 56 cores.
Technical information—Single versus dual socket
Q. What are the hardware differences between the single and dual socket HPE SimpliVity 380 configurations?
A. A single socket HPE SimpliVity 380 node ships only with a single PCIe riser. Therefore, a single-socket HPE SimpliVity 380 will not support any expansion card, which is seated on the secondary riser. Even if a dual CPU HPE SimpliVity 380 is ordered, the secondary PCIe riser is an option. HPE SimpliVity 380 has one open slot for an expansion card.
Technical information—Storage
Q. Can the storage be expanded on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. Yes. There are a few storage expansion options for HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus. HPE Services is mandatory for HPE SimpliVity storage expansions. A redeployment of the server is required to expand the storage configuration.
Q. Is the HPE SimpliVity storage expansion customer installable?
A. No. HPE Services and a redeployment are required to expand the storage on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus nodes.
Q. Can the storage be expanded on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 or HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11?
A. No, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 and HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 do not support storage expansions in HPE SimpliVity 5.1.0.
Technical information—Clusters
Q. What are the cluster size limits?
A. The minimum Federation recommended in configuration is 2+1. This provides HA and Remote Backups. It’s not recommended but single-node cluster is supported which only has RAID protection. The minimum Federation with site-level protection is 1+1.
The maximum recommended cluster size is 16 nodes in a cluster—96 in a Federation. For large ROBO environments, 48 2-node clusters per Federation are available.
Q. If a customer has an existing deployment containing an 8-node cluster, can they expand to a 16-node cluster?
A. With HPE SimpliVity 3.7.7 and above, VMware clusters, containing 8 or fewer nodes can be expanded up to 16 nodes in a cluster.
Q. Can a customer expand an existing HPE SimpliVity deployment beyond 8 nodes if the cluster contains non-HPE servers such as Cisco, Lenovo, and Dell hardware?
A. If the servers in the cluster are only all-flash storage, multivendor clusters can be expanded beyond 8 nodes and up to 16 nodes. If HPE SimpliVity clusters from other vendors contain hybrid storage, then expansion beyond 8 nodes is not supported.
Q. Can a customer complete metro or stretch clustering with HPE SimpliVity?
A. Yes. Stretch cluster capability is supported for HPE SimpliVity Gen10 Plus and Gen11 platform. HPE SimpliVity 3.7.10 and above can be configured in 8+8 node stretch cluster.
Q. Can I mix HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 hardware-accelerated nodes with HPE SimpliVity 380 G (software-optimized) nodes in the same cluster?
A. Yes. It is possible to mix HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 and HPE SimpliVity 380 G nodes if the storage size in each is the same. Refer to the latest interoperability guide for compatibility.
Q. Can I mix HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9 nodes with Gen10 nodes in the same cluster?
A. Yes. It is possible to mix nodes if the storage size in each is the same. Refer to the latest interoperability guide for compatibility.
Q. Is it possible to mix HPE SimpliVity Gen9 Cisco, Dell, and Lenovo nodes with HPE SimpliVity Gen10 nodes?
A. Yes, it is possible to mix Gen9 and Gen10 nodes if the customer is using HPE SimpliVity 3.7.3 and above, provided storage capacity is consistent across all nodes. Refer to the latest interoperability guide for compatibility.
Technical information—VMware
Q. Is VMware included in the purchase of an HPE SimpliVity node?
A. According to VMware’s guidelines, customers must provide their own VMware licensing.
Q. What versions of VMware vSphere are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11, 2600, and 325 models?
A. From HPE SimpliVity 5.0.0, VMware vSphere 7.0 and 8.0 are supported. Releases prior to 5.0.0 support vSphere 6.7 and 7.0. See the Interoperability Guide for additional platform support details, available at hpe.com/info/simplivity-interop-doc.
Q. Is VMware vSphere DRS integrated into HPE SimpliVity?
A. Yes. VMware vSphere DRS leverages rules from HPE SimpliVity placement and workload optimizer (Intelligent Workload Optimizer, or IWO). Starting from HPE SimpliVity 5.0.0, IWO settings can be managed through the vCenter plug-in for HPE SimpliVity.
Technical information—Data-at-rest encryption
Q. Is data-at-rest encryption available for HPE SimpliVity Gen11 solutions?
A. Yes, HPE SimpliVity Gen11 solutions support local data-at-rest encryption. For more details, contact support.
Q. Can data-at-rest encryption be enabled after initial deployment?
A. No, encryption can only be enabled before the system is deployed. Data-at-rest encryption cannot be turned on for a deployed system.
Technical information—Software and licensing
Q. Where is the latest HPE SimpliVity software posted?
A. The HPE SimpliVity current releases are posted on the HPE SimpliVity Releases document page.
Q. How is HPE SimpliVity licensed?
A. HPE SimpliVity is licensed per node, based on available storage and number of installed CPUs. All deduplication, compression, and backup capabilities are always available and turned on.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity have the initial factory reset software on an internal SD card or USB key?
A. No. If a factory reset is needed, then support must bring the image and provide the method to transfer the factory reset image to the HPE SimpliVity nodes.
Q. If a customer orders an HPE SimpliVity with the optional GPU, are GPU licenses included?
A. GPU licenses must be purchased separately.
Technical information—Installation and support
Q. Are HPE SimpliVity nodes customer installable?
A. Customers can rack and cable the HPE SimpliVity nodes; however, the customer will need to engage the HPE Services delivery team for deployment.
Q. Which HPE Services support levels are available for HPE SimpliVity?
A. HPE SimpliVity is configured by default with the recommended 5-year period with HPE Tech Care Service Essential, which is the minimal level for HPE SimpliVity. The support can be reduced to a 3-year period, and upgraded to a higher level. HPE SimpliVity installation service is mandatory.
Q. Is HPE SimpliVity Gen9 supported in 4.1.0U1?
A. The support for HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9 is added in 4.1.0U1. Note that 4.1.0 did not support HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9. HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0U1 is the last feature release with support for HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9.
Q. Which hardware platforms are supported by HPE SimpliVity 5.1.0?
A. HPE SimpliVity 5.1.0 supports HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 (hardware-accelerated and software-optimized), HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11, HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2, HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10, and HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen10 models.
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Technical information
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 is a software-optimized, two-socket hyperconverged solution that combines HPE SimpliVity data efficiencies with an integrated backup solution, based on the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11 SFF server platform.
Q. What version of HPE SimpliVity is required by HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 requires HPE SimpliVity 5.1.0 or above.
Q. Is HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 available in single- and dual-socket configurations?
A. Yes. Both single- and dual-socket HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 versions are available.
Q. What CPUs are available on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports single or dual 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), with 8 to 56 cores each, for a maximum of 112 cores per node.
Q. Are there different storage capacities of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 is available in 7.5, 10, 15, 21, 32, and 43 TB usable capacity (before deduplication and compression) configurations for single-disk resiliency, with dual-disk resiliency options.
Q. What are the different disk configurations of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 is available in single- and dual-disk resiliency for selected models. The available disk configurations are 6, 8, 9, 12, or 16x 1.92 or 3.84 TB SSDs. The supported models with both single- and dual-disk resiliency are 6 and 12x SSDs, and models with 9x SSDs are only available with dual-disk resiliency, while configurations with 8 and 16x SSDs can only be deployed with single-disk resiliency.
Q. Which drive types are supported by HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports Read Intensive (RI) SSD drives of different storage capacities.
Q. What are the data and boot controllers supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes support the HPE SR932i-p data controller, and HPE MR216i and HPE NS204i-u boot controllers.
Q. How much memory is supported in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes support RAM configurations ranging from 128 GB up to 4 TB per CPU socket, with a maximum of 8 TB in dual-socket nodes. No mixing of memory kits is allowed. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 380 QuickSpecs.
Q. What hypervisors are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports VMware®.
Q. What GPUs are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes support NVIDIA® L40, L4, and A16, and Intel® Data Center GPU Max 1100. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 380 QuickSpecs.
Q. What version of PCIe is supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports PCIe 5.0.
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Technical information
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus is a two-socket hyperconverged solution that combines HPE SimpliVity data efficiencies with an integrated backup solution.
Q. Is HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus available in single- and dual-socket configurations?
A. Yes. Both single- and dual-socket HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus platforms are available.
Q. Are different storage sizes of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus available?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus is available in single- and dual-disk resiliency for selected models. The different sizes contain 6, 8, 9, or 12x 1.92 or 3.84 TB SSDs. Supported models for dual-disk resiliency are 6, 9, or 12x SSDs.
Q. Does HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus offer a choice of different SSD types?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports RI SSD drives of different storage capacities.
Q. Where are the boot drives on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. There are two boot drives located at the back of the HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus nodes.
Q. How much memory is supported in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports memory configurations ranging from 144 GB up to 8 TB of RAM per node. Dual-socket configurations may be required to achieve some capacity points. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 380 QuickSpecs.
Q. What hypervisors are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports VMware®.
Q. What GPUs are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus?
A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus supports NVIDIA T4, A2, A16, and A30 GPU accelerators.
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Technical information
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 is a hyperconverged solution based on the 4th Generation AMD® EPYC 9004 Series (Genoa) processor. Each appliance has one node per 1U chassis and provides customers with the full software capabilities of HPE SimpliVity—guaranteed data efficiency, built-in data protection, and global VM-centric management and mobility.
Q. Is HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 available in different storage sizes?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 is available in single-disk and dual-disk resiliency models. The available disk configurations are 4, 6, or 8x 1.92 or 3.84 TB SSDs, with 4.5, 7.5, 10, 15, and 21 TB usable capacity options available for single-disk resiliency. The supported models with both single- and dual-disk resiliency options are with 6x SSDs.
Q. What version of HPE SimpliVity software is required by HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 requires HPE SimpliVity 5.1.0 or above.
Q. How does HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 deduplicate and compress data?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 is a software-optimized solution that manages the deduplication and compression of data through software.
Q. Can a customer integrate AMD-based HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 into a Federation of existing Intel-based HPE SimpliVity 380 nodes?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes must be in a cluster of only AMD-based HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes, but the AMD-based cluster can be part of a Federation that includes Intel-based HPE SimpliVity 380 nodes.
Q. What GPUs are supported on HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 supports the NVIDIA® A2. Additional information is available in the HPE SimpliVity 325 QuickSpecs.
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Technical information
Q. What is HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 is based on the latest 3rd generation AMD EPYC 7003 Series processor, enhancing the performance that comes with an exceptional balance of processor, memory, and I/O. The new Gen4 PCIe card used with this model is twice as fast as the previous Gen3. Each appliance has one node per 1U chassis and provides customers with the full software capabilities of HPE SimpliVity—guaranteed data efficiency, built-in data protection, and global VM-centric management and mobility. Customers can also mix HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 clusters with clusters of HPE SimpliVity 380 and 2600 in the same Federation.
Q. Is HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 available in different storage sizes?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 is available in single- and dual-disk resiliency models. The sizes are labeled extra small, small (supports dual-disk resiliency), and medium. They have 4.6 TB, 7.5 TB (5.72 TB for dual-disk resiliency), and 10 TB approximate usable capacities, respectively.
Q. What version of HPE SimpliVity is required by HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 requires HPE SimpliVity 4.1.1 or above.
Q. How does HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 deduplicate and compress data?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 is a software-optimized solution that manages the deduplication and compression of data through software.
Q. Can HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 and HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 be mixed in the same cluster?
A. It is recommended to keep HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 and HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 in different clusters due to varying performance profiles. For additional information, contact support.
Q. Can a customer integrate AMD-based HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 into a Federation of existing Intel-based HPE SimpliVity 380 nodes?
A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 nodes must be in a cluster of only AMD-based HPE SimpliVity solutions, but the AMD-based cluster can be part of a larger HPE SimpliVity Federation that includes Intel-based nodes.
Q. What GPUs are supported on HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2?
A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 does not support any GPU accelerator.
| | Usage storage capacity | RAID configuration | ||||
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| Storage configuration | CPU configuration | RAM | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency |
| 6x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 16–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 8–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | 7.5 TB | 5.7 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 6x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 15 TB | 11.5 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 8x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 8x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 9x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | NA | 9.5 TB | NA | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 9x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | NA | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 12x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 15 TB | 11.5 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 12x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 288 GB to 1.5 TB 576 GB to 3.0 TB | 33.5 TB | 26 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 16x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 288 GB to 1.5 TB 576 GB to 3.0 TB | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 16x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 384 GB to 1.5 TB 768 GB to 3.0 TB | 43 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| | Usage storage capacity | RAID configuration | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage configuration | CPU configuration | RAM | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency |
| 6x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 16–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 8–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | 7.5 TB | 5.72 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 6x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 15 TB | 11.5 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 8x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 8x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 9x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 128 GB to 1.5 TB 256 GB to 3.0 TB | NA | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 9x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | NA | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 12x 1.92 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 192 GB to 1.5 TB 384 GB to 3.0 TB | 15 TB | 11.5 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 12x 3.84 TB | 1P Intel Xeon 22–56 Cores 2P Intel Xeon 12–56 Cores | 288 GB to 1.5 TB 576 GB to 3.0 TB | 32 TB | 23 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| | Usage storage capacity | RAID configuration | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage configuration | CPU configuration | RAM | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency |
| 4x 1.92 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 16–128 cores | 128 GB to 3.0 TB | 4.5 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 4x 3.84 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 22–128 cores | 192 GB to 3.0 TB | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 6x 1.92 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 16–128 cores | 128 GB to 3.0 TB | 7.5 TB | 5.72 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 6x 3.84 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 22–128 cores | 192 GB to 3.0 TB | 15 TB | 11.5 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| 8x 1.92 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 22–128 cores | 128 GB to 3.0 TB | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| 8x 3.84 TB | 1P AMD EPYC 22–128 cores | 192 GB to 3.0 TB | 21 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| | Usable storage capacity | RAID configuration | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | CPU configuration | RAM | Storage configuration | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency | Single-disk resiliency | Dual-disk resiliency |
| XS | 1P AMD EPYC 16–64 Cores | 256–2048 GB | 4 x 1.92 TB SSD | 4.6 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
| Small | 1P AMD EPYC 16–64 Cores | 256–2048 GB | 6 x 1.92 TB SSD | 7.5 TB | 5.72 TB | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | RAID 10 ADM / RAID 6 |
| Medium | 1P AMD EPYC 16–64 Cores | 256–2048 GB | 8 x 1.92 TB SSD | 10 TB | NA | RAID 10 / RAID 5 | NA |
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