Enhancements of HPE Synergy and OneView

At Discover 2017, Las Vegas,NV, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced expanded capabilities for Synergy and OneView, plus availability of the SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged appliance.

Synergy is a composable infrastructure, a new category of infrastructure designed to accelerate application delivery in both traditional and new cloud native and DevOps environments. With its software-defined, template-driven workload composition and fluid resource pools of disaggregated resources, it can provision workload-ready hosts in minutes to deploy and redeploy that same infrastructure at cloud speed and simplicity.

SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged appliance

The company introduced composable advancements to increase performance, improve security and extend storage options for Synergy, including:

• Faster storage provisioning – Synergy customers will receive software-defined storage capabilities that allow IT administrators to easily and quickly compose a complete offering of composable storage choices, including SAN, DAS and software-defined storage using Synergy Composer and OneView templates.

• Improved security – The company has revealed a secure industry standard servers with the introduction of its next-generation ProLiant and Synergy portfolio. The firm puts silicon-based security into its industry standard platforms, addressing firmware attacks, which are one of the biggest threats facing enterprises and governments today.

Synergy 480

• Increased performance – The Synergy 480 and 660 Gen10 compute modules deliver increased performance across compute and data-intensive workloads, such as financial modeling. Synergy also delivers breakthrough 25/50GbE connectivity with 100Gb uplinks, and a 25% increase in DAS capacity. It is a fast virtualization server backed by its record VMmark 2.x benchmark result.

OneView is the software-defined intelligence that automates complex tasks thus simplifying lifecycle operations, increasing speed of application delivery and enabling rapid DevOps for Synergy and company’s infrastructure.

HPE introduced improved software-defined advancements and expanded partnerships for OneView, including:

• Improved infrastructure automation – Expanded infrastructure management capabilities in OneView deliver improved firmware management lowering costs for lifecycle operations, as well as extending support for a of the firm’s compute platforms, including Synergy, ProLiant BL, DL and ML, Apollo and Superdome X servers.

• Docker, Synergy, and Pointnext services are available as a bundled offering from the firm and its channel partners. The combination delivers a modern, composable infrastructure that automatically provisions storage, compute and fabric resources needed to run Docker Enterprise Edition.

• Mesosphere integration with Synergy allows IT and DevOps to automate deployment and streamline operations of Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS on HPE infrastructure. Using the OneView Unified API, customers can add capacity in minutes instead of hours. In addition, the company and Mesosphere, Inc. announced a strategic alliance, which will enable customers to more readily modernize their environments and operations using the cloud, containers and flash storage. The combined solution enables IT organizations to provide a public cloud experience to application development and big data teams within their existing data centers.

• OneView integration with ServiceNow allows IT operators to detect problems and streamline troubleshooting for company’s infrastructure. Integration of OneView with ServiceNow helps organizations improve IT service levels and more effectively manage incident responses by providing real-time information on the state of OneView-managed infrastructure.

• Densify.com (formerly Cirba) integration automates provisioning and enables predictive capacity management for workloads requiring VM placement and sizing information. The integration allows intelligent workload placement using predictive analysis to optimize infrastructure composition in alignment with application demands.

• Red Hat OpenShift in conjunction with Ansible/OneView integration enables application development teams to deliver applications on bare-metal faster. This combination allow users to automate provisioning of Container as a Service using Red Hat OpenShift. Users can also take advantage of Ansible integration, which allows simplified hardware lifecycle management and operations with the flexibility to add new compute resources in minutes.

Enabling industry-standards
OneView unites the power of software-defined intelligence with the flexibility of industry standards. The company plans to develop a Redfish toolkit for OneView that allows customers to take automations that use the Redfish specification and apply them to OneView managed infrastructure without needing to do extensive scripting. This will let customers combine the power of OneView templates to compose compute, storage and fabric with the flexibility of industry standards. Additionally, OneView has started to leverage Redfish to control compute resources, and has plans to extend this in future releases.

Capabilities with Cisco ACI
With a OneView scripting tool, tasks required to properly configure an Synergy or firm’s BladeSystem within a Cisco Systems, Inc. ACI network are simplified or eliminated, reducing the chances for errors, misconfigured network connections or security policies.

Availability
The new generation of Synergy Compute Modules and OneView will be available in the summer of 2017 OneView will be available in the summer of 2017.

HPE SimpliVity
It is a new hyperconverged infrastructure that simplifies IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads into a pre-integrated solution built on the the HPE Proliant DL380. HPE guarantees 90% data efficiency and an under a minute backup restore. Four months after the acquisition close, HPE is building and shipping the SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged appliance in the HPE factory.