HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack: a piece of Azure cloud under your complete control
In September, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft announced the availability of the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack solution - a software and hardware complex that allows you to place part of the Microsoft Azure cloud in your data center. We understand how this new product helps to realize a hybrid IT approach, in which the flexibility of cloud solutions is combined with the reliability of the local infrastructure.
The HPE ProLiant for Azure Stack solution enables organizations to streamline application development, deploy applications to preferred resources, comply with data storage and security requirements, and maximize the use of their own infrastructure.
HPE ProLiant provides the most flexible platform at the moment for the Azure Stack with a choice of many options for hardware resources, integration services and support, advice on solutions for individual departments or entire organizations, as well as with various payment models: from leasing to payment as you go of use.
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The configuration of the software and hardware complex initially includes 4 to 12 productive nodes (DL 380 Gen9, support of Gen10 servers is also expected in early 2018), a managing server DL 360, 2 productive switches and one switch for the control network. The options are racks, KVM, HPE uninterruptible power supplies, and more.
DL380 nodes constitute a hyperconvergent system. Each node contains:
One of the distinguishing features of HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack is a wide selection of different configurations:
Taking advantage of the Azure Stack to automate development and testing with the HPE ProLiant for Azure Stack, customers also receive management automation options.
HPE ProLiant Hardware for Microsoft Azure Stack uses HPE OneView for easy software update management and system status monitoring. It also makes it easier to integrate the complex into the current infrastructure based on HPE solutions.
OneView allows you to manage almost all HPE servers, several storage models, networks from a single interface. Management takes place on the basis of infrastructure patterns; integration into third-party automation and management tools is available.
The system is fully assembled at the factory, including setting up switches, updating firmware and software, and verifying settings. An additional check is made at the site during installation, system integration and transfer to the customer on a turnkey basis.
Support is provided jointly by HPE and Microsoft, with one login window, regardless of where the problem occurred - at the software or hardware level. Customers gain access to a global database and community of experts. Advanced training and consulting are available to integrate the Azure Stack into the current infrastructure, to use the Azure Stack capabilities in the development - for example, containers and tools for DevOps.
There are also two HPE + Microsoft Azure Stack Centers of Expertise - in Bellevue and Geneva. In these centers, you can contact HPE and Microsoft for business and technical planning, testing technology use cases and modeling, including in a remote format.
HPE is also able to offer infrastructure payment for Azure Stack upon consumption, in harmony with a similar payment model for consumption of Microsoft’s Azure services. HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack can be combined with the HPE Flexible Capacity offering, which offers payment based on resource consumption indicators with predetermined thresholds. There are various options for purchasing HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack solutions, including leasing and others.
You can learn more about the solution from the webinar recording - in particular, on it we are discussing in more detail the possibilities of the Azure Stack, configuration options and sizing. And to quickly receive news from HPE and Microsoft, join the channels in Telegram: @hpedigitize and @microsoftrus .
The HPE ProLiant for Azure Stack solution enables organizations to streamline application development, deploy applications to preferred resources, comply with data storage and security requirements, and maximize the use of their own infrastructure.
HPE ProLiant provides the most flexible platform at the moment for the Azure Stack with a choice of many options for hardware resources, integration services and support, advice on solutions for individual departments or entire organizations, as well as with various payment models: from leasing to payment as you go of use.
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What is in the complex?
The configuration of the software and hardware complex initially includes 4 to 12 productive nodes (DL 380 Gen9, support of Gen10 servers is also expected in early 2018), a managing server DL 360, 2 productive switches and one switch for the control network. The options are racks, KVM, HPE uninterruptible power supplies, and more.
DL380 nodes constitute a hyperconvergent system. Each node contains:
- control VM Azure Stack
- productive VM
- virtual storage based on Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (by the way, see the performance test results of this solution from our partners Mellanox and Micron)
- Azure Stack virtual network
Flexible options
One of the distinguishing features of HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack is a wide selection of different configurations:
- configurations from four to twelve nodes - it is possible to add single nodes, which allows you to get a system of the required volume; further expansion (over 12 nodes) - adding new “regions”, or groups of servers;
- processors for different workloads;
- various memory and storage options, selection of racks, as well as third-party network switches and power supply options, ensuring seamless integration into existing environments.
Control
Taking advantage of the Azure Stack to automate development and testing with the HPE ProLiant for Azure Stack, customers also receive management automation options.
HPE ProLiant Hardware for Microsoft Azure Stack uses HPE OneView for easy software update management and system status monitoring. It also makes it easier to integrate the complex into the current infrastructure based on HPE solutions.
OneView allows you to manage almost all HPE servers, several storage models, networks from a single interface. Management takes place on the basis of infrastructure patterns; integration into third-party automation and management tools is available.
Support and services
The system is fully assembled at the factory, including setting up switches, updating firmware and software, and verifying settings. An additional check is made at the site during installation, system integration and transfer to the customer on a turnkey basis.
Support is provided jointly by HPE and Microsoft, with one login window, regardless of where the problem occurred - at the software or hardware level. Customers gain access to a global database and community of experts. Advanced training and consulting are available to integrate the Azure Stack into the current infrastructure, to use the Azure Stack capabilities in the development - for example, containers and tools for DevOps.
There are also two HPE + Microsoft Azure Stack Centers of Expertise - in Bellevue and Geneva. In these centers, you can contact HPE and Microsoft for business and technical planning, testing technology use cases and modeling, including in a remote format.
HPE is also able to offer infrastructure payment for Azure Stack upon consumption, in harmony with a similar payment model for consumption of Microsoft’s Azure services. HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack can be combined with the HPE Flexible Capacity offering, which offers payment based on resource consumption indicators with predetermined thresholds. There are various options for purchasing HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack solutions, including leasing and others.
You can learn more about the solution from the webinar recording - in particular, on it we are discussing in more detail the possibilities of the Azure Stack, configuration options and sizing. And to quickly receive news from HPE and Microsoft, join the channels in Telegram: @hpedigitize and @microsoftrus .
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