- HPE Primera enables autonomous, self-optimized system
operations
- HPE InfoSight extends cross-stack analytics to Hyper-V
- All-NVMe and Storage Class Memory support added for HPE Primera
and HPE Nimble Storage, respectively
- Replication across three sites and near-instant asynchronous
replication enables mission-critical disaster recovery
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced advancements to
HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, including an AI-driven,
self-healing and self-optimized system that delivers real-time
autonomous operations. This is part of a comprehensive update to
the Intelligent Data Platform that provides customers with an
AI-driven, built for cloud, as a service offering that results in
unmatched application availability and performance, agility, and
automation. New capabilities include:
- Self-optimizing system operations with embedded AI in HPE
Primera, and advanced cross-stack analytics in HPE InfoSight for
Hyper-V
- Disaster recovery from a metro-wide disaster with 3-site
replication across global sites for HPE Primera and HPE Nimble
Storage, and near-instant asynchronous replication for HPE
Primera
- All-NVMe support for HPE Primera that improves performance
density, and Storage Class Memory for HPE Nimble Storage that
delivers 2X faster response times
- On-demand storage automation optimized for virtualization and
containers for HPE Primera
“Now more than ever, to maintain business continuity,
organizations must protect their data in order to operate
efficiently and without disruption,” said Omer Asad, VP and GM of
HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage. “HPE Primera and HPE Nimble
Storage customers are able to accelerate innovation and adapt to
the changing circumstances of their businesses, while also
preserving cash flow via HPE GreenLake, without compromise to
applications. HPE reduces risk, eliminates complexity and lowers
costs associated with data protection, and has the world’s smartest
storage that utilizes AI to self-optimize in real-time, giving
customers the power to run their infrastructure with agility and
reliability.”
“HPE has been a collaborator in developing our storage strategy
and moving to HPE Primera has helped deliver solid infrastructure,”
said Scott Hood, Senior Manager, Deloitte ITS, Deloitte Services
LP. “We have mission-critical applications using HPE Primera and
having an infrastructure that is simple to manage and
self-optimized can save us time managing our IT systems so we can
better focus on serving our customers.”
Today, businesses are looking to bring new applications to
market rapidly, while still supporting existing ones, in order to
accelerate the speed of business, agility and innovation. However,
it is nearly impossible for IT to keep up because they remain tied
down administering, tuning and supporting infrastructure that
supports mission critical applications and data. As a result, IT is
forced to sacrifice agility for reliability. Given this, customers
now demand primary storage solutions that deliver the cloud
experience without compromising the performance and availability of
mission-critical applications and data. HPE Primera and HPE Nimble
Storage overcome the agility versus reliability tradeoff between
the public cloud and traditional enterprise storage by providing a
modern, as-a-service experience through HPE GreenLake, combined
with intelligence and automation that ensures applications are
always-on and available.
“At Grove City College, we use technology to deliver unsurpassed
learning capabilities, such as engaging video lectures and online
courses that extend beyond the classroom,” said Vince Distasi,
Chief Information Officer, Grove City College. “Availability is
paramount to us so as a HPE 3PAR customer, we were excited to hear
about HPE Primera and its 100% availability guarantee. It gives us
the peace of mind we need, and we loved the fact we could keep our
existing HPE 3PAR array and move it to a disaster recovery site for
additional protection.”
“So far, our experiences with HPE Primera have exceeded our
expectations,” Distasi continued. “The set-up and implementation
process was transparent and seamless, and since we’ve had it in
production, it’s accelerated our ability to deliver new and better
services to our constantly-changing campus community.”
“As a customer owned public utility, we are committed to getting
the most out of our IT resources while offering our customers the
same level of innovation as our larger utility competitors,” said
Mike Harris, CIO, Clark County Public Utilities. “That’s why we
love our HPE Nimble Storage, because we don’t have to waste
valuable time managing and fighting fires. HPE InfoSight’s
excellent predictive analytics capability is integral to giving us
peace of mind knowing we won’t have surprises from our storage
environment.”
“Keeping our apps always on and always fast is also a big
priority,” Harris continued. “We are excited about the new
innovations for HPE Nimble storage to drive performance and
business continuity.”
Avoid disruptions with autonomous operations and cross-stack
analytics
In today’s fast-paced markets, IT teams and businesses cannot
afford to lose time reacting to fire drills and issues in the data
center. HPE InfoSight, the industry’s most advanced AI for
infrastructure, helps IT teams focus on business priorities by
predicting and preventing disruptions from storage to virtual
machines (VM). HPE is taking intelligence to the next level by
automatically acting on intelligence in HPE Primera to ensure
mission-critical apps are always-on and always-fast.
HPE Primera is architected with an embedded AI engine that
processes globally trained machine learning models to deliver
real-time predictions into application behavior and performance
patterns. Now, HPE Primera takes action on the predictions to
self-optimize system operations in real-time by intelligently and
dynamically optimizing resource utilization to ensure fast and
predictable performance.
In addition, the complexity of virtualized infrastructure makes
application performance and resource management challenging and
time-consuming for IT. HPE InfoSight for HPE Nimble Storage is now
the first to radically simplify VM management and enable customers
with Hyper-V environments with cross-stack analytics that pinpoints
abnormal performance issues between storage and VMs, and
underutilized virtual resources.
Near-instant data recovery and automatic protection across
global sites
Ensuring applications are protected requires data to be located
in multiple places, with flexible options across sites to meet
every service level agreement. HPE Primera raised the bar in the
industry for mission-critical storage with 100% data availability
guaranteed, and now includes enhanced HPE Peer Persistence that
delivers transparent business continuity along with flexibility to
replicate to a third site to recover from a metropolitan area
disaster, and near-instant asynchronous replication over extended
distances with a one minute recovery point objective.
With HPE Nimble Storage, enterprises have a highly available
platform with six-nines of measured availability, HPE Peer
Persistence with automatic failover across 2-sites, and
asynchronous replication on-premises or to the cloud for extended
distances. Now, multi-site replication enables 3-site replication –
including to the cloud – delivering protection against a metro-wide
disaster along with the flexibility in the cloud to use data for
test/dev and analytics.
For both HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, replication can be
configured in minutes with no specialized storage skills, no
additional software fees, and no professional services
required.
Accelerating Applications with All-NVMe and Storage Class
Memory
In order for enterprises to achieve the fastest data response
times for demanding workloads, the right underlying storage
architecture is required to maximize the benefit and economics of
next-generation protocols and solid-state media – including NVMe
and storage class memory (SCM). HPE Primera is designed with a
multi-node, all-active architecture that delivers ultra-low latency
with 75% of I/O within 250 μs latency1. Now, HPE Primera supports
all-NVMe, bringing its massively parallel architecture to deliver
higher performance density. For SAP HANA, HPE Primera with all-NVMe
now supports 2X the number of SAP HANA nodes at half the
price2.
SCM brings the disruptive potential of the speed of memory – but
is cost prohibitive as a persistent storage tier. Unlike other
vendors, HPE Nimble Storage is uniquely architected with a cache
accelerated file system that efficiently optimizes read performance
in hybrid configurations. This architecture has been optimized for
SCM cache with SSD persistent storage to deliver 2X faster response
times, with an average of sub-250 μs latency3, at near the price of
an all-flash array4.
Accelerate application development with automated, on-demand
storage
Across industries, organizations are transforming how they
develop and deploy applications across hybrid cloud – with IT
needing storage infrastructure to be more agile, more automated,
and policy-driven to support evolving virtualization and container
environments. For virtualization, virtual volumes (vVols)
streamlines storage operations with VM-centric data services and
policy-based automation. HPE Primera now supports vVols, joining
HPE Nimble Storage, to deliver a comprehensive set of vVols
capabilities, including disaster recovery with support for Site
Recovery Manager.
“VMware and HPE are working together to make storage easier to
manage as the pace of application development accelerates,” said
Lee Caswell, VP Marketing, VMware. “HPE Storage is the leading
partner in VMware Virtual Volumes™ (vVols) adoption, helping
customers across the world automate storage provisioning for modern
applications in VMware vSphere environments across the hybrid cloud
with VMware Cloud Foundation.
For containers, organizations need persistent storage for
stateful applications, requiring software-defined storage that
enables self-service automation for developers. HPE Primera now
supports the CSI Driver for Kubernetes, joining HPE Nimble Storage,
to deliver a developer-centric storage experience for dynamic
provisioning and enterprise data services. This enables persistent
storage for mission-critical applications deployed on container
orchestration platforms, including the HPE Container Platform.
Availability
The HPE Primera next-generation operating system, Primera OS
4.2, is available worldwide in Q3 2020 at no additional charge for
HPE Primera customers with valid support contracts.
HPE Primera All-NVMe is now available for order globally direct
and through channel partners.
HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes 1.1.1 is now available for HPE
Primera.
HPE Nimble Storage 1.5TB Storage Class Memory Adapter Kits are
globally available now (direct and through channel partners) for
existing or new HPE Nimble Storage AF60 All Flash Arrays and HPE
Nimble Storage AF80 All Flash Arrays.
HPE Nimble Storage 3 Site Replication is globally available now
as part of NimbleOS 5.2 release for any HPE Nimble Storage customer
with an active support contract
HPE InfoSight Cross Stack Analytics for Hyper-V will be globally
available in July 2020 for any HPE Nimble Storage customer with an
active support contract.
Additional Resources
Visit these blogs to learn more about the updates to HPE Primera
and HPE Nimble Storage.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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jurisdictions.
1 75% of read/write requests within 250 μs of latency across HPE
Primera All-flash installed base.
2 Based on HPE internal testing, comparing HPE Primera all-flash
with HPE Primera all-NVMe.
3 Based on HPE demonstration of HPE Nimble Storage AF80
with/without SCM running an Oracle database.
4 Based on a 10% ASP difference of HPE Nimble Storage AF80
equipped with the 1.5TB Storage Class Memory FIO Adapter Kit.
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