Overview:
HPE Alletra dHCI radically simplifies infrastructure for every application by reimagining HCI without limitations. Built for business-critical apps and mixed workloads, HPE Alletra dHCI enables IT agility while ensuring apps are always-on and always-fast. VM-centric and AI-driven operations make it effortless, while 99.9999% guaranteed data availability and consistent sub-millisecond latency mean it's ideal for the most demanding apps and workloads. It lowers costs with flexible, independent scaling of compute and storage and industry-leading data efficiency. Finally, HPE Alletra dHCI maximizes agility by unlocking the cloud experience across hybrid cloud. We call it HCI 2.0 as it’s HCI without limitations.
What's New
- HPE Alletra dHCI now supports HPE Alletra 5000, the next-generation hybrid flash array for general purpose workloads that require cost-efficient flash performance.
- HPE Alletra dHCI now supports Rack integration of certain configurations via pre-configured Build-to-Order SKUs.
- HPE Alletra dHCI now supports the AMDbased HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11, HPE ProLiant DL365 Gen11, and HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 server models.
- HPE Alletra dHCI now supports latest versions of VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 and 8.0 software.
- HPE Alletra dHCI has simplified lifecycle management with one-click, unified software upgrades for server firmware, hypervisor and storage software.
- Customers with existing HPE ProLiant servers can extend the asset life and turn the systems into to HPE Alletra dHCI gaining automation and unified management for virtual machines.
dHCI takes hyperconverged further
Get all the simplicity and ease-of-use that you love about HCI—but for all your apps. HPE Alletra disaggregated HCI (dHCI) delivers a hyperconverged experience that includes business-critical speed and resiliency alongside independent scaling of compute and storage.
HPE Alletra dHCI drives more resiliency for your apps, more performance at scale, and more efficiency for your wallet. And lets VM administrators unlock agility and accelerate time to market on a platform designed for business-critical application and mixed workloads.
10X lower latency
Accelerate every application.
4X more resilient
Maximum resiliency, zero tuning.
5X more efficient
No wasted resources.
Explore the boundary-breaking new architecture
IT would love to extend the HCI experience to every application; dHCI makes that possible. With consistent performance and enterprise-grade resiliency (neither of which require any tuning to maintain), as well as flexible scale and unrivaled efficiency, HPE Alletra dHCI is ready for all your apps. With automation powered by HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition you can provision, manage, and protect your virtual machines across hybrid cloud environments.
- Simplest experience yet
Be up and running in less than 15 minutes—and then stay up with no-compromise, always-on data services, and continuous wellness monitoring from storage to VMs. Manage everything with VM-centric operations in VMware vCenter, and stay current via 1-click upgrades. Enjoy all of this as-a-service from HPE GreenLake.
- Unmatched performance and resiliency
HCI delivers agility and ease of use, but its architectural limitations make it a risky bet for business-critical apps. HPE Alletra dHCI delivers sub-ms latency, 100% guaranteed availability, built-in data protection. No other HCI can touch that.
- Flexible scale and zero waste
Enjoy the unrivaled economics of an architecture that can scale compute and storage independently—and deliver guaranteed best data efficiency. Eliminate over-provisioning, reduce storage costs by 33-50%, and provision VMs and cloud instances from a single, global dashboard.
- It's the cloud experience and then some
Leverage all the cloud advantages of self-service IT, automation, simplicity, and elasticity — but with better resiliency, performance, and efficiency. Take advantage of flexible, independent scaling, and rely on the industry-leading intelligence of HPE InfoSight for self-managing, self-optimizing operations. Do it all with HPE Alletra dHCI delivered from HPE GreenLake.
- Leverage the most advanced AI in the industry
Traditional HCI is great for Day 0 and Day 1—speeding deployments and getting apps up and running—but for Day 2 and beyond, you need AI-driven intelligence to say goodbye to fighting fires. HPE Alletra dHCI embeds HPE InfoSight, the industry’s most advanced AI for infrastructure, for predictive analytics that diagnose and resolve issues so you don’t have to.
Features:
Intelligently Simple
Free yourself to focus on apps, not infrastructure. Hyperconverged control and HPE InfoSight make it simple for any VM admin to deploy, manage, scale, and support this platform. Self-install in less than 15 minutes, manage exclusively in VMware vCenter, and upgrade transparently to your apps.1
Absolutely Resilient
Keep apps running nonstop and fast with a resilient design center and predictive analytics. Sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS for performance-intensive apps and consolidation. 99.9999% availability with automated QOS, advanced data integrity, and data protection that extends to the cloud.3
Efficiently Scalable
Eliminate over provisioning and add only the resources needed with the flexibility to independently grow compute and storage, non-disruptively. Store more data per raw terabyte over competitive platforms with industry-leading data efficiency backed by the HPE Store More Guarantee.2
1 HPE Nimble Storage dHCI—Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Business, ESG Technical
Validation, June 2019 https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=a00075391enw
2 Efficiency at any scale through HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage
https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/a00039975enw.pdf
3 Based on installed-base data of HPE Nimble Storage
Frequently Asked Questions:
Disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) is a form of hyperconverged infrastructure that goes beyond the traditional setup by enabling businesses to control the ratio of compute and storage resources they provision in their HCI nodes. This is accomplished through the combined technology of HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Alletra arrays.
DHCI radically simplifies infrastructure for every application by reimagining HCI without limitations. Built for mixed workloads at scale, HPE Alletra dHCI lowers costs with flexible, independent scaling of compute and storage and industry-leading data efficiency. It enables IT agility while ensuring apps are always-on and always-fast. VM-centric and AI-driven operations make it effortless, while 100% guaranteed data availability and consistent sub-millisecond latency mean it's ideal for the most demanding applications and workloads. Finally, HPE Alletra dHCI maximizes agility by unlocking the cloud experience across hybrid cloud.
- dHCI automation software: HPE Alletra dHCI software stack
− dHCI setup software
− VMware vCenter plugin (HPE Alletra dHCI requires vCenter Server Standard)
− HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition Cloud Console
− HPE InfoSight for dHCI
- Storage: One (1) HPE Nimble Storage (or) HPE Alletra 6000 (or) HPE Alletra 5000 storage array
− HPE InfoSight is included with the storage array
- Servers: From the following supported list of servers (existing (or) new):
− DL360, DL380, DL325, DL365, DL385, DL560, DL580 (more details on generations listed under “What’s new’)
− Server count per dHCI configuration: 2
– 32 HPE ProLiant servers
− HPE InfoSight is included with HPE ProLiant servers
- Ethernet switches: The choice of HPE M-Series, HPE Aruba Networking CX 8320, HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325, HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300M (or) HPE Networking Comware 5710, 5945 switches, (or) Cisco Nexus 3k and 5k (Purchase of Cisco switches is not available through dHCI ordering on HPE web pages)
− Switch count per dHCI configuration: (2) Top of the Rack switches
- Hypervisor: VMware vSphere 7.0, VMware vSphere 8.0
Notes:
- For Greenfield configurations, the purchased solution consists of the storage array, minimum 2 servers, top of rack switches, and mandatory cabling to complete the solution.
- For Brownfield configurations, the storage array is the only mandatory component. Customers can use existing compatible servers and switches with the array or order either component new from HPE.
- HPE Alletra dHCI supports and requires iSCSI connectivity for storage. Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs may be optionally added to an HPE Alletra dHCI array following deployment for use with non-dHCI workloads running on the same array
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