HPE SimpliVity 380 System With Hyper-V and SimpliVity Workspaces for Citrix

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP announced SimpliVity 380 with Hyper-V and the SimpliVity integration partner solutions as a Citrix WorkSpace Appliance Partner.

This offerings expand customer hypervisor options and simplify and enhance the ability to provide high-performance virtual applications and desktops, making it to deliver secure digital workspaces in today’s hybrid cloud world.

Businesses are weighed down by IT infrastructure that was not designed to enable them to move faster for today’s virtual environments. The SimpliVity 380 with Hyper-V provides businesses with an easier IT infrastructure solution, simplifying the data center by converging servers, storage and storage networking into one simple to manage, software-defined platform. The result is increased business agility and economics of the cloud in an on-premises solution. The pre-integrated, all-flash, hyperconverged building block simplifies IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads-including VM-centric management and mobility, data protection and guaranteed data efficiency.

“As more Microsoft customers move toward hybrid infrastructure, it is vital to have a platform that can manage distributed systems across heterogeneous infrastructure. Furthermore, it is important for us to have a partner ecosystem giving our customers a choice of platforms. Integration of HPE SimpliVity with Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V makes this a reality,” said Erin Chapple, GM, Windows Server, Microsoft Corp. “We are excited to have a strong partner like HPE build on Hyper-V, giving our customers the freedom to choose between virtualization platforms for workloads and data.“

SimpliVity 380 with Hyper-V solution offers to SimpliVity customers
following core benefits:

• Enables VM centric management and mobility – SimpliVity hyperconvergence enables policy-based, VM-centric management abstracted from the underlying hardware to simplify day-to-day operations. VMware, Inc.‘s customers benefit from this core value with 95% seeing value and IT simplification. Now Hyper-V customers can achieve the same benefit.

• Data protection – Customers have access to a hyperconverged solution with full-featured, built-in backup and recovery at no additional cost. These data protection features include the resilience, built-in backup, and bandwidth-efficient replication needed to ensure a high levels of data integrity and availability, eliminating the need for legacy data protection.

• Data efficiency – Efficiency is delivered by built-in data services including in-line deduplication and compression and novel data architecture to speed BC and enable workload mobility. Guaranteed data efficiency saves 90% capacity across storage and backup combined and the benefits include slashing recovery point objectives (RPOs) and RTOs from days or hours tos, with a guaranteed 60s restore for a 1TB VM.

SimpliVity 380 enables customers to deploy a powerful hyperconverged platform with either Hyper-V or vSphere private clouds.

“HPE SimpliVity 380 provides us with a common software-defined architecture supporting both VMware ESXi and Hyper-V environments for our private cloud,” said Neil Bailey, head, IT infrastructure enterprise architecture and innovation, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing. “A choice in hypervisors plus the unique combination of performance, efficiency and simplicity makes the solution exactly what we need for our IT environment because it allows us to easily move and manage our applications and data on multiple public and private cloud platforms.“

“We experienced very positive high performance, remarkable backup and restore time and extremely easy processes to deploy and manage using HPE SimpliVity support for Hyper-V Server 2016,” said Jose Campos, manager, virtualization IT, Redes Energ Éticas Nacionais. “The centralized management and ease of use with integration in Microsoft SCVMM is a benefit since our team is familiar with the Hyper-V interface.“

SimpliVity 380 with support for Hyper-V is available from the company and partners.

“HPE is enabling customers to extend the way they deploy and use SimpliVity with multi-hypervisor capabilities,” said McLeod Glass, VP and GM, software-defined and hyperconverged solutions, HPE. “Our customers value HPE SimpliVity 380’s application performance, built-in data protection, data efficiency, and ability to easily manage and activate VMs ins. By offering Hyper-V, customers now have built-in data services for enterprises ROBO and mid-market private clouds along with management, optimization, intelligence options, and flexibility.“

In addition, the companyextended our partnership with Citrix Systems, Inc. by collaborating on a SimpliVity solution portfolio integration, including the SimpliVity 380 with Hyper-V, into the Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance Program. The firm and Citrix solution is pre-integrated and pre-tested in the SimpliVity appliance, so customers don’t have to build their own solutions to deliver their virtualized applications and desktops. The appliance program makes it easy to deliver new workplace solutions and be managed with Citrix over the lifecycle. Together, the company and Citrix are setting the standard for customers to easily deploy digital workspaces with multi hypervisor, multi-cloud flexibility resulting in digital collaboration and a borderless, productive workplace.

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