Today at VMworld Europe HP and VMware announce that they are partnering together to deliver a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance powered by VMware EVO: RAIL, HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL. This is the second 200 line of hyper-converged solutions, the first being the HP StoreVirtual version.
Today at VMworld Europe HP and VMware announce that they are partnering together to deliver a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance powered by VMware EVO: RAIL, HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL. This is the second 200 line of hyper-converged solutions, the first being the HP StoreVirtual version.
Hyper-converged systems give midsize businesses flexible, open architecture to simplify IT operations and to help them migrate from legacy systems to virtual infrastructure. HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL is aimed at providing businesses with a cost-effective solution that improves service deployment and new workload efficiencies.
The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL features pre-integrated, pre-tested 100% VMware software stack including: VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vRealize Log Insight (formerly vCenter Log Insight), and the EVO: RAIL engine. The EVO: RAIL engine simplifies appliance scale-out, management, and operations benefiting the customers from time to value to first VMs in minutes. EVO: RAIL integrates all of these technologies into a single appliance, simplifying IT and enabling new applications to come online quickly.
HP and VMware are jointly extending HP OneView to EVO: RAIL with future releases of HP OneView will be able to directly manage the EVO: RAIL appliance helping to unify management of hyper-converged and traditional infrastructure deployments.
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
Availability
The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2015. Pricing will be announced along with general availability.
