You have two data centres, then five. Then you move to the edge, and some workloads move to a hyperscaler. Works well enough, up until when you’re managing those multiple consoles and stretching your team.

Let’s say it how it is: complex and inefficient. But it doesn’t need to be with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition.

HPE’s solution puts your VMs under one console. It provisions, manages, and protects your VMs across on-premises HCI and public cloud from theaa Data Services Cloud Console — leaving you to operate without complexity.

What it runs on

On-premises, you pick one of two HCI systems. The choice comes down to the workload you’re running.

HPE Alletra dHCI is disaggregated, with the compute and storage scaling independently, letting you add compute when you need compute and capacity when you need capacity.

That’s what stops you from over-provisioning on mixed workloads. It’s also the lever on hypervisor licensing because you aren’t licensing cores you added only to get storage.

Additional solutions

Alletra Storage MP lets dHCI reach mission-critical workloads. HPE puts 100% availability on that top tier. HPE SimpliVity is the all-in-one system for edge and general-purpose VMs that provides capacity savings for hyperconvergence.

Gen11 within SimpliVity adds newer processors, more cores and capacity. There’s a newer PCIe, more accelerators, a choice of controllers, and hot-serviceable boot drives over Gen10.

The 325 Gen11 is another step up with GPU support, primarily for the most graphics-heavy virtual desktops.

Where it fits into your VM infrastructure

HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition fits a few situations, but they cluster around two needs: running a site that’s hard to staff and consolidating one that’s sprawling.

  • Edge, ROBO and small sites. A small data centre’s capability in one system, in places without local IT to run it.
  • Consolidating your data centres. Provides a lower TCO and a way off the update-and-refresh treadmill. Your operations get pulled into one solution.
  • Business-critical and mission-critical applications. Handled by dHCI with Alletra Storage MP. Suitable for when uptime isn’t negotiable.
  • More desktops on less hardware, basically. You get the graphics performance and peak-load behaviour your deployments need.

With one deployment, you can build a self-service cloud and access it on demand in data centres, at the edge, and across environments.

Do these use cases match your requirements? DSI Ltd is an independent HPE partner. Email us today at uksales@dsiltd.co.uk to learn more about the solutions in our article.