HPE Launches Advanced Private Cloud Portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a generational leap forward for an industry’s most advanced private cloud portfolio ⁽¹⁾, redefining what a private cloud delivers to customers through nearly a decade of leadership and HPE Morpheus Software.

HPE is announcing the following:

• HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is available with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, which reduces up to 90% of VM license costs ⁽²⁾ with multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud consumption. The new savings add to the estimated 2.5X ⁽³⁾ lower TCO provided by the disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) ⁽⁴⁾.
• HPE Morpheus software family is available and includes Morpheus VM Essentials for virtualized workloads and Morpheus Enterprise Software for unified cloud management. Both software offerings include the HVM hypervisor from HPE and are licensed per-socket to reduce TCO. VM Essentials customers will be able to upgrade to full Morpheus Enterprise.
• New services simplify virtualization modernization for customers of all sizes.

“Enterprises are at a pivotal moment in IT modernization where they must address escalating management complexity and increasing virtualization costs to free investments for core growth areas. We are the leader in disaggregated infrastructure and our private cloud combines that leadership with new software for unified virtualization and cloud management. HPE is giving customers the choice, simplicity and cost efficiencies to outpace the competition and re-invest in innovation,” said Fidelma Russo, executive VP and GM, hybrid cloud and CTO, HPE.

HPE Private Cloud Business Edition offers radical savings and simplicity through Morpheus VM Essentials
While many IT infrastructure providers are recognizing the cost benefits of disaggregated infrastructure, the company is redefining the full-stack private cloud through Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus VM Essentials. Business Edition, available as dHCI or HCI, enables organizations to choose optimized architecture for VMs from the edge to the data center. VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, allowing customers to mix and match VMs to suit their needs.

• Proven, enterprise-grade, virtualization solution: VM Essentials is designed for global deployment and supported by comprehensive enterprise services available from the infrastructure to the workload.
• AI-driven experience from setup to operations: The firm automates infrastructure setup and lifecycle management for Business Edition and AIOps predicts and prevents up to 86% of issues ⁽⁵⁾, freeing IT resources.

“HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has paid for itself with what we are saving on legacy support contracts, as-a-service consumption, datacenter space and energy efficiency,” said Roberto Valenta, corporate technology and operations IT manager, Aeropuertos Argentina. “The performance, scalability and reliability are the backbone of our mission-critical workloads from flight tracking to airport arrivals and departures. Business Edition powers our vision to deliver faster, stress-free services that reduce waiting, check-in, and security times for flyers.“

Commvault systems, Inc. will be the 1st VM Essentials ecosystem partner to support image-based VM backup and recovery with an upcoming release in May.

Morpheus Software unifies cloud management and lowers costs
New Morpheus Enterprise Software unifies cloud management for larger enterprises and service providers. From a simple interface, organizations can manage and govern virtualized, container-based and third-party runtimes across bare metal, on-prem and public cloud infrastructure. Morpheus Enterprise automates application provisioning to deliver approximately 150X faster deployment of apps into virtually any hypervisor or cloud plus up to 30% lower cloud costs with analytics-powered rightsizing ⁽⁶⁾.

Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials are hardware-agnostic, standalone software and are newly validated to run on Dell PowerEdge servers and NetApp AFF arrays, in addition to ProLiant Compute Gen11 and Gen12 servers. New ProLiant Gen12 servers enable customers to consolidate and save up to 27% on virtualization software, 65% on power per year and a 7:1 reduced data center footprint ⁽⁷⁾.

The combination of VM Essentials and HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 lowers TCO by up to 48% ⁽⁸⁾, increases performance by up to 10X ⁽⁹⁾, and provides microsegmentation, DPU (data processing unit) acceleration and enhanced security. VM Essentials also provides simple, granular storage management for the Alletra Storage MP B10000.

HPE simplifies virtualization transformation and modernization with enterprise-grade services
New HPE Cloud Platform Services – Virtualization Modernization ease virtualization modernization. HPE Services provides a dedicated assessment, an end-to-end process for robust landing zones, and services for re-platforming workloads, modernizing infrastructure, migrating data, educating team members, and managing infrastructure to reduce overhead. The company was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment ⁽¹⁰⁾.

Availability

• HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus VM Essentials is available. New Business Edition systems with SimpliVity will be available in the 3rd quarter of 2025.
• Morpheus Software integration for Alletra Storage MP B10000 is available and is planned for June for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000.
• Morpheus Enterprise Software is available as standalone software.

Resources:
Blog: Escaping Hybrid Complexity Demands Redefining Private Cloud
Video: HPE Morpheus Software: Unify Fragmented Tools to Make Infrastructure Easier to Consume
Blog: Virtual Networking Done Right with HPE Morpheus VM Essentialsand HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000
 

⁽¹⁾ Based on HPE analysis of the portfolios of major infrastructure providers and private cloud capabilities including unified private cloud management and control plane, managed or self-managed deployment, runtimes supported, infrastructure architecture types including hyperconverged or disaggregated, as well as storage and compute.
⁽²⁾ Based on internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing vs. available market data on cost of existing virtualization licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
⁽³⁾ Based on Enterprise Strategy Group, Economic Validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, May 2024, and internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing vs. available market data on cost of existing virtualization licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
⁽⁴⁾ HPE introduced the industry’s first disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure in June 2019 and also introduced disaggregated storage in April 2023.
⁽⁵⁾ HPE Substantiation Document

⁽⁶⁾ Based on comparative before and after studies via interviews with HPE Morpheus Software install base
⁽⁷⁾ SPEC and the names SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results [SPECrate2017_int_base: #36693 (1), #36691 (2), #20893 (3), #37007 (4)] are published as of 01-01-2025, see spec.org, and compared vs. a 48-core estimated Gen12 system. All rights reserved. (5) Power savings based on the Thermal Design Power of the systems. (6) VM software savings per term of the license. Virtualization savings analysis based on core-based licenses as at April 9th, 2025. The calculations were made by comparing to a Gen12 with 48 cores per socket. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
⁽⁸⁾ Based on internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing vs. available market data on cost of existing virtualization licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
⁽⁹⁾ Based on scaling of HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 with ~800G Firewall compared to ~ 80G Firewall from a leading vendor.
⁽¹⁰⁾ IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment, Doc #US53312825