New HP Hyper Convergence Systems
A few months ago, in our blog, we talked about the HP Converged System 240-HC StoreVirtual hyper-convergent system (CS240), with which you can deploy a virtualized infrastructure in just 15 minutes (you can read about how this system is deployed here ).
The main scenarios for using the HP CS240 (and all other systems in the CS200 family) are the rapid creation of a virtualized out-of-the-box server infrastructure that can be used to deploy new applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for 500 to 2000 workstations and build a private cloud. This packaged solution with minimal support and maintenance requirements is especially interesting for small companies and branch offices / remote offices of large organizations, where the entire IT infrastructure is served by one or two system administrators who have only basic knowledge of server virtualization applications and are not storage experts. .
The HP CS200 family of systems was introduced last fall. It used the eighth generation HP ProLiant SL2500 ultra-dense server system with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors. Beginning in September 2014, when the first ProLiant Gen9 models entered the market, HP gradually upgraded all of its standard architecture servers. In August of this year, HP launched a new version of the HP Converged System 250-HC StoreVirtual hyperconverged system (CS250), the hardware of which was the HP Apollo 2600 ninth generation super-dense server system based on ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server nodes with Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors.
The HP Apollo 2600 has the same super-dense design as the HP ProLiant SL2500 (2U chassis with four dual-socket computing nodes), but it uses the latest HP ProLiant Gen9 technology, so the HP CS250 is far superior to its predecessor, and therefore copes better with maintenance of a large number of virtual machines. If the HP CS240 system, depending on the processor model, hosts 64 or 80 Xeon E5-2600 v2 cores, then the HP CS250 can have up to 96 processor cores (using 12-core E5-2680v3). The maximum amount of RAM in the system has doubled (from one to two terabytes), and the use of 2600 DDR4 memory modules in HP Apollo has noticeably increased the RAM performance, on which the performance of virtual machines that are deployed on the HP CS250 strongly depends.
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Finally, although the possible configurations of the disk subsystem of the system, which is common to all four nodes, remain the same as those of the HP CS240 (24 hard drives of 1.2 TB each or a hybrid configuration of 18 hard drives and 8 solid-state drives of 400 GB each), but due to the use of 12 Gigabit SAS in ProLiant Gen9, the speed of data exchange with the disks has doubled, which is especially important when using a hybrid configuration with SSD disks to obtain the maximum IOPS.
HP CS250 innovations are not limited to the hardware of the system, it also supports the latest version of the VMware vSphere 6.0 hypervisor. From the end of September, in addition to vSphere 5.5 / 6.0, the new system will also support the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The use of a Microsoft hypervisor will make the hyperconverted system affordable for customers who, because of the IT budget constraints, could not acquire VMware licenses.
If the first generation of the system was available only in two hard configurations, then HP CS250, depending on the needs of the customer and the limitations of its budget, can be ordered in different configurations, varying the number of disks, vSphere version (5.5 or 6.0), the number of Xeon E5 2600 cores installed in the nodes (eight or twelve) and the amount of RAM individual node (128, 256 or 512 GB).
In addition, if the composition of the boxed solution for some parameters does not suit the customer, HP is ready to offer the same functionality, but already on the basis of a specially built system assembled from servers with any filling. The difference from the boxed version in this case is the lack of a quick deployment manager; all other options can be added separately. A key component of the hyperconvergent system — the HP StoreVirtual VSA software storage — can be installed on any x86 server at all. Moreover, the license for 1 TB of virtual disk array comes with every new HP ProLiant server free of charge since 2013.
The new HP Converged System 250-HC StoreVirtual hyper-converged system not only improves the performance of applications deployed in a virtualized environment, but also reduces the initial price of box-based virtualization solutions and offers customers a flexible choice of configurations.
Have questions? Write in the comments.
The main scenarios for using the HP CS240 (and all other systems in the CS200 family) are the rapid creation of a virtualized out-of-the-box server infrastructure that can be used to deploy new applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for 500 to 2000 workstations and build a private cloud. This packaged solution with minimal support and maintenance requirements is especially interesting for small companies and branch offices / remote offices of large organizations, where the entire IT infrastructure is served by one or two system administrators who have only basic knowledge of server virtualization applications and are not storage experts. .
The HP CS200 family of systems was introduced last fall. It used the eighth generation HP ProLiant SL2500 ultra-dense server system with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors. Beginning in September 2014, when the first ProLiant Gen9 models entered the market, HP gradually upgraded all of its standard architecture servers. In August of this year, HP launched a new version of the HP Converged System 250-HC StoreVirtual hyperconverged system (CS250), the hardware of which was the HP Apollo 2600 ninth generation super-dense server system based on ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server nodes with Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors.
The HP Apollo 2600 has the same super-dense design as the HP ProLiant SL2500 (2U chassis with four dual-socket computing nodes), but it uses the latest HP ProLiant Gen9 technology, so the HP CS250 is far superior to its predecessor, and therefore copes better with maintenance of a large number of virtual machines. If the HP CS240 system, depending on the processor model, hosts 64 or 80 Xeon E5-2600 v2 cores, then the HP CS250 can have up to 96 processor cores (using 12-core E5-2680v3). The maximum amount of RAM in the system has doubled (from one to two terabytes), and the use of 2600 DDR4 memory modules in HP Apollo has noticeably increased the RAM performance, on which the performance of virtual machines that are deployed on the HP CS250 strongly depends.
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Finally, although the possible configurations of the disk subsystem of the system, which is common to all four nodes, remain the same as those of the HP CS240 (24 hard drives of 1.2 TB each or a hybrid configuration of 18 hard drives and 8 solid-state drives of 400 GB each), but due to the use of 12 Gigabit SAS in ProLiant Gen9, the speed of data exchange with the disks has doubled, which is especially important when using a hybrid configuration with SSD disks to obtain the maximum IOPS.
HP CS250 innovations are not limited to the hardware of the system, it also supports the latest version of the VMware vSphere 6.0 hypervisor. From the end of September, in addition to vSphere 5.5 / 6.0, the new system will also support the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The use of a Microsoft hypervisor will make the hyperconverted system affordable for customers who, because of the IT budget constraints, could not acquire VMware licenses.
If the first generation of the system was available only in two hard configurations, then HP CS250, depending on the needs of the customer and the limitations of its budget, can be ordered in different configurations, varying the number of disks, vSphere version (5.5 or 6.0), the number of Xeon E5 2600 cores installed in the nodes (eight or twelve) and the amount of RAM individual node (128, 256 or 512 GB).
In addition, if the composition of the boxed solution for some parameters does not suit the customer, HP is ready to offer the same functionality, but already on the basis of a specially built system assembled from servers with any filling. The difference from the boxed version in this case is the lack of a quick deployment manager; all other options can be added separately. A key component of the hyperconvergent system — the HP StoreVirtual VSA software storage — can be installed on any x86 server at all. Moreover, the license for 1 TB of virtual disk array comes with every new HP ProLiant server free of charge since 2013.
The new HP Converged System 250-HC StoreVirtual hyper-converged system not only improves the performance of applications deployed in a virtualized environment, but also reduces the initial price of box-based virtualization solutions and offers customers a flexible choice of configurations.
Have questions? Write in the comments.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/266125/
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