Today at VMworld Europe, HP announced a new hyper-converged offering combining software-defined storage, compute, management, and VMware integration, the HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual is aimed at simplifying IT operations, accelerate time to value and respond to business opportunities faster.
Today at VMworld Europe, HP announced a new hyper-converged offering combining software-defined storage, compute, management, and VMware integration, the HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual is aimed at simplifying IT operations, accelerate time to value and respond to business opportunities faster.
Virtualization is the driver for infrastructure investment, and hyper-converged systems are helping small and mid-size enterprises simplify their IT operations, accelerate service delivery, and enable enhanced disaster recovery for virtualized as well as physical servers. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual combines all the required hardware and management into a single scale-out system that simplifies virtual infrastructure management, from ordering and deployment to support of applications and virtual desktops. This hyper-converged system also includes:
- HP OneView InstantOn – provides simple self-installation and enables customers to be ready with loaded virtual machines in minutes.
- HP OneView for VMware vCenter – centralized management of compute, storage and virtual machines from inside VMware vCenter Server. The entire virtual infrastructures can be managed from interface. Once the cluster-aware startup completes, administrators can:
- Provision virtual machines directly from VMware vCenter Server
- Manage all hyper-converged systems and traditional virtual server systems across all sites from a single console using HP OneView for VMware vCenter
- Replicate from one hyper-converged system to another, or to a low-cost server/VSA combination for flexible disaster recovery
- Use optional vRealize Operations (formerly VMware vCenterOperations Manager) for comprehensive monitoring of health and performance across VMs and critical physical components
- HP StoreVirtual VSA technology – for simple self-installation and management of fully clustered, highly available servers and storage.
The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual comes pre-configured with all of the software pre-installed. All it requires is the entry of IP addresses, credentials and VMware vSphere license information to get up and running. The system fits alongside the software-defined HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) and the HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage appliance. All three HP StoreVirtual-based product families offer 100 percent shared data services, including replication, federation and transparent site failover. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual comes in both performance and capacity optimized configurations. Specifications for each are:
HP CS 240-HC StoreVirtual System
- Four compute nodes with VMware vSphere
- and StoreVirtual software
- 64 CPU cores @ 2.0 GHz each
- 512 GB RAM total
- 8x 10GbE and 8x 1GbE ports total
- 24 x 1.2 TB SAS SFF drives total
HP CS 242-HC StoreVirtual System
- Four compute nodes with VMware vSphere
- and StoreVirtual software
- 80 CPU cores @ 2.8 GHz each
- 1 TB RAM total
- 8x 10GbE and 8x 1GbE ports total
- 16 x 1.2 TB SAS SFF drives and 8 x 400 GB SFF
- SSDs total with Adaptive Optimization
The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual system includes a rich set of standard data services, including:
- Automated, sub-volume auto-tiering, thin provisioning and space reclamation provide capacity efficiency and lower storage costs without sacrificing performance.
- Stretch cluster capabilities that keep applications online during appliance, rack-level or site-wide outages to address the need for business continuity.
- Transparent multi-site high availability and workload mobility built on HP StoreVirtual technology certified by VMware as a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster solution and integrated with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
- Data volumes that can be non-disruptively replicated or migrated from one HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual system to another-or to any x86-based server running any major hypervisor and HP StoreVirtual VSA-using built-in HP Peer Motion to provide flexibility to meet changing business needs.
This announcement demonstrates the longstanding partnership between HP and VMware. The new ConvergedSystem 200 line of hyper-converged solutions starting with the HP StoreVirtual version and then the EVO:RAIL version that offers customers greater choice and flexibility.
Availability
The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual will be available worldwide in December 2014.
HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual Page
