Earlier this year at HP Discover, HP announced a new type of infrastructure it dubbed, Composable. This new infrastructure would be composable or built on fluid pools of compute, storage and fast flexible fabric, disaggregated so they can be quickly composed, decomposed back into the pool and then re-composed in a software template to fit the specific needs of an application or workload that will run on it, giving customers a cloud-like experience with their hardware. Now HP is bringing to market the first solutions in partnerships with Chef and Arista.
Earlier this year at HP Discover, HP announced a new type of infrastructure it dubbed, Composable. This new infrastructure would be composable or built on fluid pools of compute, storage and fast flexible fabric, disaggregated so they can be quickly composed, decomposed back into the pool and then re-composed in a software template to fit the specific needs of an application or workload that will run on it, giving customers a cloud-like experience with their hardware. Now HP is bringing to market the first solutions in partnerships with Chef and Arista.
Over the summer HP announced its Project Synergy in order to deliver a new class of composable infrastructure. This initiative is aimed at helping businesses keep up with the needs of a digitally driven enterprise and provide application developers a programmable infrastructure allowing them to provision infrastructure for the needs of an application through the HP OneView API. Two months after launching Project Synergy, HP has worked with Chef and Arista to release integrated solutions that leverage the open HP Composable Infrastructure API.
HP states that organizations must allow application developers to treat “infrastructure-as-code.” Infrastructure-as-code will automate the provisioning of applications and their underlying operating system and infrastructure. Through HP OneView this concept can be extended down to bare metal, spanning compute, storage, and networking. Using the new Chef Provisioning Driver for HP OneView enables customers to automatically provision entire application stacks from bare metal through application in minutes. Using templates from HP OneView, customers can order physical infrastructure on-demand from their private bare metal cloud. The Chef Provisioning Driver, using OneView, can also invoke a template through a single line of code when new infrastructure is required.
Another Partner of HP Composable Infrastructure, Arista is using the HP OneView’s open REST APIs and open standard AMQP message bus to build interoperability between their top of rack switch and the HP Converged Architecture 700 platform. This new interoperability will automatically provision VLAN interfaces between HP Virtual Connect and Arista’s programmable platforms potentially saving deployment, updating, migrating, and troubleshooting time in larger data centers.
Availability
The HP OneView-Chef solution is available now and HP is offering enterprise-grade support, tools and advice through its Datacenter Care-Infrastructure Automation service.
HP Composable Infrastructure (PDF)
Chef Provisioning Driver on GitHub
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