HPE SimpliVity delivers 50 percent lower cost per virtual
desktop; HPE Nimble Storage dHCI enables VDI as a service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that the
enhanced HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen 10 hyperconverged infrastructure
solution (HCI) with the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor, doubles
the virtual desktops supported per server to provide businesses a
50% lower cost per remote worker1. In addition, HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI, a disaggregated HCI platform released last year, is now
available through HPE GreenLake, enabling virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) and virtual machines as-a-service with a pay
as you go model. Advancements to Nimble Storage dHCI also include
increased scale and support for expanded HPE ProLiant server models
with the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor, helping customers use VDI
for unpredictable workloads, large scale environments, and
performance intensive desktop users.
“Our experience with HPE SimpliVity has been incredible,
especially with our large SQL databases, file servers, and virtual
desktops that we can rapidly recover in minutes with ease,” said
David Wunderley, Director of Emerging Infrastructure &
Operations Support at Pitt Ohio. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, we
moved the majority of our corporate users to work from home, and
doubled our concurrent VDI user count overnight with no performance
impact. The new high density HPE SimpliVity 325 with the 1U form
factor will help VDI environments like ours make the most of
performance and availability in an extremely small footprint.”
“With HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, we can now provide a superior VDI
solution for our 380+ VDI users and 400+ sales reps working
remotely due to our changing business model and COVID-19,” said Rob
Collins, Head of Infrastructure and Service Management at PetSure.
“In the past, we were using AWS for our VDI workloads, but the
costs were too high for us. With HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, we are
able to reduce our operating costs by 50%, improve our performance
2X for our VDI workloads, and achieve 50% faster application
provisioning.”
In today’s environment, businesses are being asked to shift
their employees to a virtual office environment to curb the spread
of COVID-19. This places new, urgent requirements on IT to quickly
enable a remote workforce. Meeting the business and employee needs
for VDI requires solving the challenges associated with
performance, scale, complexity, and data protection. HPE SimpliVity
and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI overcome the limitations of traditional
infrastructure with intelligent management, easier scalability,
cloud data protection, and the performance to support every worker,
including knowledge users. During these uncertain times, when
capacity is strained and costs need to be controlled, HPE provides
businesses with solutions that can help IT optimize their
infrastructure to deliver secure, reliable remote access.
HPE sets new virtual desktop density standard with HPE
SimpliVity
Businesses need a reliable, high performing, and highly secure
workspace for their remote employees. HPE SimpliVity helps to
address this growing remote workforce with an intelligent,
software-defined HCI solution that simplifies the time needed to
deploy, manage, and scale VDI. For all businesses with remote
workers, HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 combined with the new 2nd Gen AMD
EPYC™ processor delivers double the virtual desktops per server on
average than any other HCI vendor1. This drives down the cost for
each remote worker by 50% in a small, efficient 1U platform,
delivering a small footprint for entry-level and distributed edge
HCI use cases.
“The COVID-19 global pandemic is an unprecedented situation that
is affecting all businesses, our communities, and our way of life,”
said Patrick Osborne, VP and General Manager of HPE SimpliVity. “As
an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company, HPE is here to help
our clients bring together the right expertise and technology
solutions to meet their most immediate challenges and unexpected
demands. With these challenges, customers are looking to rapidly
unleash mobile productivity and desktop virtualization, and HPE
SimpliVity and Nimble Storage dHCI solutions provide performance
and flexible payment options for our customers.”
HPE delivers VDI as-a-service with HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is architected for VDI users,
business-critical applications, and mixed workloads with
unpredictable growth. To support remote worker initiatives, HPE is
announcing the following:
- Support for HPE GreenLake: HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is
now available through HPE GreenLake, delivering VDI as-a-service,
accelerating time to value, and simplifying IT management. As a
cloud consumption experience, businesses pay monthly for what they
use, convert capital to operating expense, and scale compute and
storage on-demand.
- Expanded server support and scale: HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI has added support for HPE ProLiant DL325, DL385, DL560, and
DL580 servers, and increased the scale of servers supported from 20
to 32. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI enables HPE ProLiant customers to
convert their existing server investments into a disaggregated
HCI.
- One-click software upgrades: HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has
simplified lifecycle management with one-click, unified software
upgrades for server firmware, hypervisor and storage software,
saving IT productivity time and de-risking upgrades. The upgrades
can be performed directly in VMware vCenter.
Financial Offers to Manage Cash Flow
In addition to the recently announced newly-configured VDI
solutions, today’s HCI offerings for VDI are supported through HPE
Financial Services, which can help alleviate some of the strain
felt by businesses around the globe as they navigate an uncertain
business climate. HPE Financial Services can help release capital
from existing infrastructures, defer payments, and provide
pre-owned tech to relieve capacity strain. As part of the
innovative financing structures to reduce cash outlays during
uncertainty, HPE SimpliVity and Nimble dHCI customers can delay
payments for up to 180 days to help preserve cash.
Availability
HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 with the new AMD EPYC™ processor is now
orderable globally direct and though channel partners, with
expected shipping in late May 2020.
HPE GreenLake is now available for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
globally. The expanded server support, scale and one–click software
upgrade enhancements will be available globally direct and though
channel partners in 2H2020.
Additional Resources
Visit this blog to read more about the HPE SimpliVity 325 and
here to learn more about Nimble Storage dHCI. For details on the
latest features, the Around the Storage Block podcast is also
available to listen to.
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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.
1 Based on validation by LoginVSI benchmark testing
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