General portfolio information

Q. Is there a webpage with information about HPE SimpliVity solutions?

A. Yes, the following webpage has additional HPE SimpliVity content: hpe.com/info/simplivity .

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 upshotstories.com/search?q=simplivity .

HPE InfoSight

Q. Is HPE InfoSight available for HPE SimpliVity with VM Essentials?

A. Yes, HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity with VM Essentials is available.

Q. What HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity with VM Essentials features are available?

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. Receives 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 you subscribe to email notifications?

A. Customers can subscribe to the 5-minute heartbeat alerts via email, which helps in seeing SSD issues in near real-time.

HPE SimpliVity lifecycle management

Q. What is HPE SimpliVity’s new streamlined deployment process?

A. Starting with HPE SimpliVity 6.0.0, the new HPE SimpliVity Initial Setup UI provides a setup wizard to configure the management network on an HPE SimpliVity HVM host, and assists in uploading deployment packages to HPE VM Essentials Manager. After the Initial Setup is successfully executed, the HVM cluster creation and HPE SimpliVity Virtual Controller (SVC) deployment can be executed within HPE VM Essentials Manager. No additional application is required.

Q. Where is the HPE SimpliVity Virtual Controller (SVC) deployment executed?

A. Once the HPE SimpliVity nodes in the HVM cluster are available with the status “Ready to be deployed”, the SVC deployment is executed within HPE VM Essentials Manager, through the HPE SimpliVity Deployment Package, available in the Cluster Addon Package tab of HPE VM Essentials Manager. This process creates or expands the HPE SimpliVity cluster in an HPE SimpliVity Federation.

Built-in data protection

Q. What types of backup and restore workflows are supported by HPE SimpliVity?

A. HPE SimpliVity virtual machine backups can be performed automatically - by using a backup policy that contains one or more policy rules (“policy-based”), or manually - by creating a backup at the current point-in-time (“on-demand”).

Q. Are HPE SimpliVity backups dependent on snapshots?

A. No, every HPE SimpliVity backup is always a full backup of the virtual machine – never a snapshot, nor a differential, nor an incremental backup.

Q. Can HPE SimpliVity backups be restored to a new instance, or only to the current instance?

A. Both options are available for policy-based or on-demand HPE SimpliVity backups.

Q. What level of consistency is provided by HPE SimpliVity backups?

A. With HPE SimpliVity 6.0.0 only crash-consistent backups are supported.

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 customers’ 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 .

Technical information — Memory

Q. How much memory is supported in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports from 155 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 Gen11 with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports 5 ^th Gen. Intel® Xeon™ Scalable ( Emerald Rapids ) processors with up to 64 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 Gen11 node ships only with a single PCIe riser. Therefore, a single-socket HPE SimpliVity 380 will not support any expansion card, which would be seated on the secondary riser. Even if a dual-CPU HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 is ordered, the secondary PCIe riser is optional. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 has one open slot for an expansion card.

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 documentpage .

Q. How is HPE SimpliVity licensed?

A. HPE SimpliVity is licensed per node, based on available storage and number of CPUs installed. All deduplication, compression, and backup capabilities are always available and turned on.

Q. What is HPE SimpliVity Term Licensing?

A. As of Jul/7/2025, all HPE SimpliVity systems ship with Term Licenses only. The Term Licenses are available in 3- and 5-years terms and include the following components: HPE SimpliVity Software, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software, HPE SimpliVity Software support, and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software support. All HPE SimpliVity systems ship as HPE VM Essentials-ready nodes, and the user can choose to deploy them with HPE VM Essentials or with VMware® vSphere™ as the hypervisor (vSphere requires BYOL - bring your own licenses).

Q. Can I still order HPE SimpliVity systems with Perpetual Licenses?

A. As of Jul/7/2025, all HPE SimpliVity systems ship with Term Licenses only. HPE no longer provides HPE SimpliVity Perpetual Licenses.

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 with VM Essentials customer-installable?

A. Customers can rack and cable the HPE SimpliVity nodes; however, the customer will need to engage the HPE Services or certified partner team for deployment.

Q. Which HPE Services support levels are available for HPE SimpliVity with VM Essentials?

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. 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 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials require HPE SimpliVity 6.0.0 or later.

Q. Are HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials 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 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 supports single or dual 5 ^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable ( Emerald Rapids ) processor, with 8 to 64 cores each, for a maximum of 128 cores per node.

Q. Are there different storage capacities of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials are available in 8, 11, 15, 21, 30, and 43 TB usable capacity (before deduplication and compression) configurations for single-disk resiliency.

Q. What are the different disk configurations of HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials available in single-disk resiliency configurations of 6 and 8x 1.92, 3.84 and 7.68 TB SSDs.

Q. Which drive types are supported by HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials?

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 nodes with VM Essentials?

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 with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials support RAM configurations ranging from 155 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 GPUs are supported on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials support NVIDIA® A16, L4, L40, and L40S, 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 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials support PCIe 5.0.

Q. What is HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11?

A. The HPE SimpliVity Gen11 platforms represent a leap forward in compute, storage, and networking capabilities. The HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 model is built to support more robust workloads, with significant improvements in hardware flexibility and scalability, providing customers with an even wider choice of drives and NICs. Based on the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11 server platform, with support for the 5 ^th Generation AMD® EPYC™ 9005 series ( Turin ) and 4 ^th Generation AMD® EPYC™ 9004 series ( Genoa ) processors, this 1U platform supports up to 8 all-flash SATA SSDs, which makes it ideal for edge computing and SMB environments. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 also supports the closed-loop liquid cooling (CLLC) system, for efficient thermal management in high-core configurations and compute-dense environments.

Q. Are HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials available in different storage sizes?

A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials are available in single-disk resiliency configurations with 4 and 6x 1.92, 3.84 or 7.68 TB SSDs, as well as 8x 7.68 TB SSDs, with 5, 8, 10, 15, 19, 31 and 43 TB of usable capacity (before deduplication and compression) configurations.

Q. What version of HPE SimpliVity software is required by HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 with VM Essentials requires HPE SimpliVity 6.0.0 or later.

Q. Can a customer integrate AMD-based HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials into a Federation of existing Intel-based HPE SimpliVity 380 nodes with VM Essentials?

A. Yes. HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen11 nodes with VM Essentials must be in a cluster with only AMD-based HPE SimpliVity nodes, and the AMD-based cluster can be part of a Federation that includes Intel-based HPE SimpliVity 380 nodes with VM Essentials.