Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced advancements to HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, including an AI-driven, self-healing and self-optimized system that delivers real-time autonomous operations.
This is part of a comprehensive update to the Intelligent Data Platform that provides customers with an AI-driven, built for the cloud, as a service offering that results in unmatched application availability and performance, agility, and automation. New capabilities include:
- Self-optimizing system operations with embedded AI in HPE Primera, and advanced cross-stack analytics in HPE InfoSight for Hyper-V
- Disaster recovery from a metro-wide disaster with 3-site replication across global sites for HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, and near-instant asynchronous replication for HPE Primera
- All-NVMe support for HPE Primera that improves performance density, and Storage Class Memory for HPE Nimble Storage that delivers 2X faster response times
- On-demand storage automation optimized for virtualization and containers for HPE Primera
HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage overcome the agility versus reliability tradeoff between the public cloud and traditional enterprise storage by providing a modern, as-a-service experience through HPE GreenLake, combined with intelligence and automation that ensures applications are always-on and available.
HPE InfoSight, the industry’s most advanced AI for infrastructure, helps IT teams to focus on business priorities by predicting and preventing disruptions from storage to virtual machines (VM). HPE is taking intelligence to the next level by automatically acting on intelligence in HPE Primera to ensure mission-critical apps are always-on and always-fast.
HPE Primera is architected with an embedded AI engine that processes globally trained machine learning models to deliver real-time predictions into application behaviour and performance patterns. Now, HPE Primera takes action on the predictions to self-optimize system operations in real-time by intelligently and dynamically optimizing resource utilization to ensure fast and predictable performance.
HPE InfoSight for HPE Nimble Storage is now the first to radically simplify VM management and enable customers with Hyper-V environments with cross-stack analytics that pinpoints abnormal performance issues between storage and VMs, and underutilized virtual resources.
Near-instant data recovery and automatic protection across global sites
HPE Primera raised the bar in the industry for mission-critical storage with 100% data availability guaranteed, and now includes enhanced HPE Peer Persistence that delivers transparent business continuity along with the flexibility to replicate to a third site to recover from a metropolitan area disaster and near-instant asynchronous replication over extended distances with a one-minute recovery point objective.
With HPE Nimble Storage, enterprises have a highly available platform with six-nines of measured availability, HPE Peer Persistence with automatic failover across 2-sites, and asynchronous replication on-premises or to the cloud for extended distances. Now, multi-site replication enables 3-site replication – including to the cloud – delivering protection against a metro-wide disaster along with the flexibility in the cloud to use data for test/dev and analytics.
For both HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, replication can be configured in minutes with no specialized storage skills, no additional software fees, and no professional services required.
Accelerating Applications with All-NVMe and Storage Class Memory
HPE Primera is designed with a multi-node, all-active architecture that delivers ultra-low latency with 75% of I/O within 250 μs latency. Now, HPE Primera supports all-NVMe, bringing its massively parallel architecture to deliver higher performance density. For SAP HANA, HPE Primera with all-NVMe now supports 2X the number of SAP HANA nodes at half the price.
HPE Nimble Storage is uniquely architected with a cache accelerated file system that efficiently optimizes read performance in hybrid configurations. This architecture has been optimized for SCM cache with SSD persistent storage to deliver 2X faster response times, with an average of sub-250 μs latency, at near the price of an all-flash array.
Accelerate application development with automated, on-demand storage
HPE Primera now supports vVols, joining HPE Nimble Storage, to deliver a comprehensive set of vVols capabilities, including disaster recovery with support for Site Recovery Manager.
HPE Primera now supports the CSI Driver for Kubernetes, joining HPE Nimble Storage, to deliver a developer-centric storage experience for dynamic provisioning and enterprise data services. This enables persistent storage for mission-critical applications deployed on container orchestration platforms, including the HPE Container Platform.
