HPE SIMPLIVITY

An enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up and restores VMs in seconds.

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HYPER-SIMPLE. HYPER-SCALABLE. HYPERCONVERGED.

Bring cloud agility, scalability, and simplicity to the enterprise data center with HPE SimpliVity. Streamline IT operations with a fast, uncomplicated, and efficient hyperconverged platform that combines your IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated all-flash solution — at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings.

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INNOVATIONS

True hyperconvergence from data center to edge

Gain VM management and mobility, built-in backup and DR, and game-changing data efficiency in this award-winning hyperconverged solution. In the data center or on the edge, hyperconvergence just got better.

True hyperconvergence from data center to edge

Gain VM management and mobility, built-in backup and DR, and game-changing data efficiency in this award-winning hyperconverged solution. In the data center or on the edge, hyperconvergence just got better.

New AI-enabled hyperconverged infrastructure

91% increase in time for innovation

Built-in backup and disaster recovery

Game-changing data efficiency

True hyperconvergence

Friction-free scalability

New AI-enabled hyperconverged infrastructure

New AI-enabled hyperconverged infrastructure

InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity helps you better manage VMs, data, and backups by providing insight to system details. Learn historic capacity consumption, trends, and forecasts at federation, cluster, and node levels.

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91% increase in time for innovation

91% increase in time for innovation

Simplify day-to-day operations with policy-based, VM-centric management, combined with powerful automation and intelligence. Enable seamless data mobility that makes your development teams and users more productive.

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Built-in backup and disaster recovery

Built-in backup and disaster recovery

Eliminate the need for third-party data protection. HPE SimpliVity delivers the resilience, built-in backup, and bandwidth-efficient replication you need to ensure the highest levels of data integrity and availability.

Read the 2019 IDC report

Game-changing data efficiency

Game-changing data efficiency

The data efficiency baked into HPE SimpliVity improves application performance, frees up storage, and accelerates local and remote backup and restore functions. Customers are guaranteed 90% capacity savings across storage and backup combined.

See our HyperGuarantee

True hyperconvergence

True hyperconvergence

The networking component of your hyperconverged solution shouldn’t be an afterthought, but a pre-integrated, pre-tested component. Hyperconverge the complete IT stack and manage compute, storage stack compute, storage, and networking all from a single, familiar vSphere management console.

Learn more about HPE Composable Fabric

Friction-free scalability

Friction-free scalability

Scale up to 16 nodes/cluster and 96 nodes/federation and choose from 3 to 40 TB nodes for storage capacity.

Read the SimpliVity announcement

HPE brings AI to hyperconverged infrastructure, and automation and optimization to the edge.

HPE enhances SimpliVity with HPE InfoSight, new long-term backup storage node, and new edge-optimized offering.

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CAPABILITIES

POWER AND PROTECT YOUR VIRTUALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE

Simplify the VM experience by delivering true hyperconvergence at scale — from core to edge — with efficiency, resiliency, density, and simplicity.

Efficiency

Operational efficiency reduces capacity requirements and improves application speed and performance. Always-on, inline deduplication and compression only needs to happen once, delivering 90% capacity savings across primary storage and backup – guaranteed!

Resiliency

Achieve high availability with just 2 nodes. HPE SimpliVity tolerates simultaneous drive failures without data loss, and built-in data protection and disaster recovery features help keep data safe.

Density

Flexible, consolidated resource pools are cost effective building blocks for a variety of workloads. The award-winning HPE SimpliVity 2600 provides space-constrained environments with high-density, enterprise grade features and functionality.

Simplicity

Simple and automated operations eliminate the need for specialized IT skills. VM administrators manage the entire IT stack from a single, familiar interface. Back up, clone, or restore a VM in 3 clicks, guaranteed, using policy-based, VM-centric management.

TECHNICAL VIDEOS

5-minute demonstration of HPE SimpliVity

Go beyond legacy infrastructure with HPE hyperconvergence webinar

5 ways to protect your data with the HPE SimpliVity platform

HPE SimpliVity 380 data deduplication: See how it works

Data deduplication deep dive

Introducing HCI with Composable Fabric

HYPERCONVERGED SOLUTIONS

Streamline your IT operations with an enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance and restores VMs in seconds.

Hyperconverged

HPE SimpliVity 380

The industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution with policy-based, VM-centric management and always-on compression and deduplication.

Converged Systems

91

Increase in time for innovation¹

10:

Reduction in data center devices²

52:

Reduction in storage ¹

Hyperconverged

HPE SimpliVity 2600

The same resilient software as HPE SimpliVity 380, in a hyper-efficient, rack-dense form factor that’s ideal for VDI environments.

KEY BENEFITS

91

Increase in time for innovation¹

10:

Reduction in data center devices²

52:

Reduction in storage¹

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Simple to deploy, manage, and non-disruptively scale, the HPE Composable Fabric is the ideal solution to support machine-to-machine workloads on a single fabric.

KEY BENEFITS

Agility and scale

Supercharge your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market with friction-free scale.

Adaptability and performance

Isolate critical workloads and serve your applications better with exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower your admin to manage, provision, and implement traffic from a single portal.

Services

HPE Pointnext Services

IT services that accelerate your digital transformation so you can create new customer experiences, optimize core business operations, and deliver new products and services.

Services

11

Successful transformation engagements per year

25

Of the brightest minds in IT, dedicated to your digital transformation

80

Countries covering 30 languages, delivering global scale and expertise

Hyperconverged

HPE SimpliVity 380

The industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution with policy-based, VM-centric management and always-on compression and deduplication.

Converged Systems

91

Increase in time for innovation¹

10:

Reduction in data center devices²

52:

Reduction in storage ¹

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Simple to deploy, manage, and non-disruptively scale, the HPE Composable Fabric is the ideal solution to support machine-to-machine workloads on a single fabric.

KEY BENEFITS

Agility and scale

Supercharge your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market with friction-free scale.

Adaptability and performance

Isolate critical workloads and serve your applications better with exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower your admin to manage, provision, and implement traffic from a single portal.

Services

HPE Pointnext Services

IT services that accelerate your digital transformation so you can create new customer experiences, optimize core business operations, and deliver new products and services.

Services

11

Successful transformation engagements per year

25

Of the brightest minds in IT, dedicated to your digital transformation

80

Countries covering 30 languages, delivering global scale and expertise

Hyperconverged infrastructure: How it works

Watch on-demand webinar series exploring how HPE SimpliVity takes business beyond legacy IT by combining IT infrastructure and data services for virtualized workloads into a single hyperconverged node.

KEY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Complete hyperconvergence

Integrated compute, storage, and networking—with advanced data services for data efficiency, data protection, and VM-centric management and mobility.

Advanced data services

Built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery for data protection
Always-on deduplication and compression for reduced capacity utilization by up to 10X — guaranteed³

Multi-hypervisor strategy

Deploy in either VMware vSphere® or Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2016 private clouds

Simplify your environment with HPE SimpliVity 380

Storage-intensive workloads
Multiple configuration options (XS, S, M, L, and XL)
Hardware-accelerated, always-on deduplication and compression
General virtualization and VDI workloads

Optimize your data center footprint with HPE SimpliVity 2600

Compute-intensive, edge, and VDI workloads
Space-constrained environments that need a high-density server form factor
Highest GPU per rack unit (RU) density
Software-optimized for always-on deduplication and compression

Flexible federation strategy

Scale up to 16 nodes/cluster and 96 nodes/federation
Mix clusters within the same federation — for example, HPE SimpliVity 380 at the core data center and HPE SimpliVity 2600 at the edge

Success in action

King Price drastically drives reduced TCO and data-restore times

In a very competitive South African car insurance industry, King Price wanted to dramatically reduce unplanned downtime and improve availability.

Challenge

Guarantee an always on environment to fully serve, keep and grow our customer base, standing out within a very competitive industry as a fully paperless insurance provider. Desire to improve application performance and agility.

Solution

HPE SimpliVity 380 and HPE 3PAR All-Flash Storage

"IT is no longer seen as the bottleneck of business. There is no more "NOs", it is always like ‘YES, we can do."

Jacobus Steyn, IT Manager at King Price

Result

Enable and accelerate business, through always available IT resources. Improve SQL job runtimes from 14 hours to 2 hours. Reduce TCO by 69%, with smaller footprint and simplified infrastructure. Ensure data recovery, restoring up to 8TB in less than 15 seconds. Manage environment and deploy projects with speed and ease of use. Scale environment to demand, seamlessly adding extra nodes.

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Solution Recipe

HPE SimpliVity 380

Related Case Studies

Authentic Customer Stories

Facing a difficult challenge at work? Get real, applicable insights from professionals just like you.

School District of Janesville preps for classroom technology growth

The school system eliminated slow backup and recovery time as a bottleneck to learning with a fast, simple and efficient hyperconverged platform.

Watch Janesville story

Racing team get faster with hyperconverged

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, a Formula One racing team, is in the business of speed — and it needs infrastructure that is, too.

Read the case study

St. John’s Riverside Hospital cures IT pain points with hyperconvergence

A major hospital enables cloud economics and gains flexibility, scalability, and data protection for critical systems with HPE SimpliVity HCI.

Read the case study

Totes-Isotoner standardises IT with next-generation architecture

The weather-wear provider improved IT performance and data protection with HPE SimpliVity, safeguarding critical applications and holding down costs.

Read Totes story

Princeton Holdings secures and desprawls its data center

The insurance provider keeps its growing stores of sensitive information safe and quickly recoverable by consolidating its data center infrastructure.

Watch the video

BITS connects community banks with scalable, compliant platform

The provider of voice and network solutions shrinks its data centre, reaping three times the capacity in a quarter of the space at half the price.

Watch BITS story

Petrobras refines its resource-constrained IT environment

The oil and gas company hyperconverges into a data virtualization platform, achieving cloud economics with enterprise-class performance.

Read the case study

Thames Valley Housing Authority achieves seamless disaster recovery

The London social housing provider saves time, money, and space with a decreased data center footprint and the ability to restore files or VMs in just minutes.

Watch the video

Genia IT Solutions replaces disjointed multivendor IT infrastructure

The Danish hosted service provider hyperconverges to build a modern data center that enables swift disaster recovery and safeguards revenue-critical services.

Read the case study

Saint Kentigern Trust graduates to a higher level of disaster recovery

The New Zealand church-school consortium hyperconverges its IT to support its complex, cross-campus information and communication technology needs.

Read the case study

Kirton McConkie makes the case for remote access

The Utah-based law firm improves service for its global client base with a high-performing hyperconverged back end that enables attorneys to work from anywhere.

Read the case study

Guelph Hydro harnesses the power of hyperconvergence

The Canadian electric company undams resources by deploying a modern data center with fast VDI performance, improved server backups, and reduced space.

Read the case study

HYPERCONVERGED TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

SAP HANA

With the hardware consolidation that HPE SimpliVity provides, IT organizations get the simplicity of running an appliance-like model for HANA at a much lower cost.

Read white paper

VMware vRealize

Manage HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solutions and VMware vRealize Automation though a single user interface.

HyTrust

HPE SimpliVity includes built-in data protection. HPE’s partnership with HyTrust takes healthcare data security a step further.

Read white paper

Micro Focus

Manage and operate an HPE SimpliVity environment from within Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management (HCM).

Veeam

Disaster recovery, reduced risk, and minimized downtime for heterogeneous environments.

Docker

HPE Express Containers with Docker is a complete containers-as-a-service (CaaS) solution that includes HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.

Citrix

HPE and Citrix have partnered to make secure hybrid cloud workspaces that are simple to manage.

Microsoft

HPE SimpliVity provides core benefits for the SQL Server environment, including outstanding performance and scalability.

VMware Horizon

HPE SimpliVity simplifies client virtualization and delivers unmatched performance on VMware Horizon 7.

Solve key business challenges with HPE Simplivity

Automate your disaster recovery: Built-in data protection features ensure a simple, automated recovery process.

Read data sheet

business white paper

Minimize your data center footprint: Placing all your IT infrastructure below the hypervisor on a scalable x86 platform reduces your data center devices by 10:1

business white paper

Protect your data faster, from end to end: Protect your data in a fraction of the time required by legacy solutions.

Read white paper

interactive business white paper

Create VDI efficiency: Drive down costs without sacrificing performance or resiliency.

business white paper

Centralize ROBO management: Remove distance as a limitation with cost-effective scalability, built-in data efficiency and protection for ROBOs

See white paper

Analyst White Paper

Make the move to cloud: Get enterprise-level performance and reliability with the efficiency, flexibility, and economics of cloud.

Calculate savings

Analyst White Paper

Store data faster, for less: HPE SimpliVity all-flash storage delivers twice the performance of hybrid solutions

RESOURCES

Top 6 use cases for HCI

You've learned about what hyperconverged infrastructure is and how it works. See the six best ways to put it to work in your data center.

A technical overview of HCI
HCI data center use cases
Organizational challenges and financial considerations

AROUND HPE

Composable Hybrid Cloud as a Service for VMware

HPE and VMware will integrate HPE GreenLake with VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE Synergy, providing customers with a single hybrid cloud experience.

View the press release

NASA builds new supercomputer to support future human mission to moon

NASA’s new supercomputer, Aitken, built with HPE technology, will run complex simulations for future entry, descent and landing on the moon.

Read the NASA article

Our next giant leap

The first moon landing was 50 years ago. See how HPE high-performance computing is paving the way for a mission to Mar

Gaming the future

How new technologies like AI, 5G, HPC and intelligent storage are improving the in-game experience and using tech advancements for social good.

What CIOs need to know about 5G

5G isn’t ready to deploy, say experts. But you should start planning what the deployment should include.

Read the article

The future of GPS

We depend on GPS in so many ways. An upgraded system is ahead, but so are growing threats.

Read the article

Living Progress Report 2018

See how HPE tackles environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in our latest Living Progress Report.

Read new report

The circular economy: HPE upcycling for the bottom line

Technology progress comes at a cost. Continually discarding equipment is not sustainable for resources, business or the planet. See a better way.

Watch upcycling video

Discover 2019 keynote: Advancing the way people live and work

CEO Antonio Neri explores how a visionary approach and robust innovation are creating positive change for everyone.

Watch keynote address

View from the top: Discover 2019 exec interviews

See what top HPE leadership has to say about the opportunities technology is providing across industries.

Watch executive videos

¹IDC Operational Efficiency White paper, August 2018

²The Total Economic Impact™ of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Forrester Research, Inc., 2019

³HPE SimpliVity Guarantee https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/simplivity-guarantee.html