HPE Smart Connect Manager

Network automation that simplifies rack server networking at scale for cloud service providers by using predefined server networking bundles and zero-touch provisioning.

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How networking infrastructure enables digital business
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Unburden IT with smart network automation

Break the inefficient IT cycle that disrupts strategic innovation with touch-free task management that liberates your IT team from the burden of everyday network management tasks. HPE Smart Connect Manager leverages HPE ProLiant server and Arista networking technology to simplify and automate rack server networking for large enterprises and cloud service providers who deploy at scale.

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Enduring innovation requires constant connection and mobility

No matter the deployment or scale, HPE network solutions provide the support and speedy performance to streamline your IT.

Enduring innovation requires constant connection and mobility

No matter the deployment or scale, HPE network solutions provide the support and speedy performance to streamline your IT.

Scale out deployments with confidence
Quickly and easily interconnect servers
Simplify processes
Easily scale
Reduce costs
Scale out deployments with confidence
Scale out deployments with confidence

Deliver comprehensive network deployment automation across multiple racks with predefined, workload-specific configuration bundles. Be fast and agile while reducing error-prone manual network setup tasks, as well as monitor and adapt server connectivity.

Quickly and easily interconnect servers
Quickly and easily interconnect servers

HPE Smart Connect Manager can help speed infrastructure provisioning by up to 93% versus manual. 1 Seamlessly provision top-of-rack switches and rack servers and be workload-ready for bare metal, containers, or server virtualization deployments.

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Simplify processes
Simplify processes

Simplify decisions and streamline the procurement process with 86 percent fewer order SKUs 2 to manage. HPE Smart Connect Bundles are easy-to-buy workload solutions that lower business risks with automated, tested, and repeatable deployment processes.

Easily scale
Easily scale

Be responsive and adapt your data center to business needs while reducing downtime from human middleware—the cause of 70% of center outages. 3 Scale from two to 15 racks easily, delivering value with simple network management, operation, and maintenance.

Reduce costs
Reduce costs

Reduce operating costs and make faster decisions while freeing skilled resources to work on higher-value projects. Improve resiliency while decreasing risk with the industry-standard leaf-and-spine data center network architecture.

Network automation portfolio

HPE Smart Connect Bundles pair Smart Connect Manager with a hardware and licensing kit to fit your network configuration.

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HPE Smart Connect 10/25GbE Balanced Workload Kit

Two Arista 7160 25 GbE ToR switches; One Arista 7010T 1 GbE out-of-band (OOB) management switch; C13-C14 power patch cables; Arista Advanced L3 licenses; Arista CloudVision license; HPE Smart Connect Manager license.

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Gartner: network automation as a strategy

“CIOs must stress the importance of increasing automation throughout their organizations. This is particularly true among the networking areas, where network automation has lagged behind other areas.”- Gartner

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HPE Smart Connect Bundles

Leverage best-of-breed server and networking technologies with HPE Smart Connect Bundles, an innovative solution that uses server and networking technology to simplify and automate rack server networking at scale.

  • Automated software that combines HPE ProLiant Servers
  • Predefined hardware bundles and software licenses
  • Scale to business needs, from 1 up to 15 servers
HPE Smart Connect Bundles
HPE Smart Connect Bundles deliver comprehensive automation across multiple racks of servers, leveraging predefined network and workload configurations—saving time spent to design, deploy, manage, and scale your servers.
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