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HPE enables elastic provisioning of data center infrastructure on HPE servers using VMware Stack
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Managing physical/virtual resources and offering services to end users via self-service has become a challenge for many businesses. HPE addresses this challenge by converting physical data center resources into virtual data center (VDC) resources which service providers can adapt and offer as a self-service catalog.
by Jeeva Selvaraj, Chief Solution Architect, Cloud Native Computing Practice Area, HPE Pointnext Services
Many enterprises are following multiple ways to implement this technique to control their infrastructure resources and usage, serve their users fast to accelerate their business, and launch their products quickly with budget control.
Most of these enterprises are facing challenges in their end-user service, as it requires an approach with technology to convert their physical resources into virtual resources and offer them as a self-service catalog. Also, organizations require certain skillsets for provisioning applications on modern infrastructure platforms.
HPE understands these challenges, and we have partnered with VMware to meet these customer needs with a VMware stack on HPE hardware. This post explains how these two technologies work together to meet the objective.
The VMware Stack on HPE hardware includes HPE Synergy, HPE ProLiant DL servers, and a fully integrated hyper-converged infrastructure system jointly engineered by VMware and re-engineered by HPE, delivered as a turnkey option. The picture below shows the building blocks involved in elastic resource provisioning using VMware Stack on HPE hardware with HPE Synergy and HPE ProLiant.
This combo uses a single interface to provide the following functionalities to end users:
- Elastic virtual data centers: These create virtual data centers that allow users to provision network, storage, and compute resources through a catalog of vApp templates and media files.
- Multi-tenancy: Manage all tenants from a unified interface that provides multi-tenancy with complete isolation.
- Infrastructure allocation: Divide hardware infrastructure into smaller resource pools, which can be provided to users and expanded as needed.
- HPE OneView: The HPE OneView management appliance deploys and maintains VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure faster, simplifies IT operations, and increases productivity.
- Workload migration across virtual data centers: Back up, evacuate, and replicate workloads ranging from the level of a VM to an entire data center.
- Self-service: Refers to the flexibility achieved when IT pros access resources, create new ones, monitor usage and cost, and adjust resource allocations.
- Workflow automation: Lets operations teams manage resources without human intervention.
- Cloud analysis: Helps track workloads and user experiences.
- Backup/Disaster Recovery: Provides disaster recovery, data protection and cloud mobility within a single, simple, scalable solution.
The following picture shows how the building blocks works together to achieve the elasticity in private cloud.
The combination of HPE hardware infrastructure – HPE ProLiant DL Servers, HPE Synergy – with the VMware SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) solution dramatically improves business outcomes as well as overall value for our customers. It delivers a simplified and more secure private cloud that is flexible, easy to deploy, and seamless to manage. It removes the operational overhead of traditional deployments, and it’s simple to operate. For enterprise customers looking to accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud, HPE ProLiant DL Servers or HPE Synergy hardware with VMware Cloud Foundation is the right solution to support and run all your enterprise apps – both traditional and containerized in a cloud environment.
Using HPE Aruba CX Switches with VMware NSX in VMware Cloud Foundation stack, this solution delivers powerful automation and advanced analytics, improving IT efficiency when provisioning, managing, and troubleshooting today’s data center networks. It also provides powerful L2 (Layer 2) connectivity between VMware NSX and Aruba CX Switches to ensure low-latency, optimized traffic flows between physical and virtual networks.
VMware Cloud Director platform on top of the VMware Cloud Foundation delivers cloud computing for existing software-defined datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to end-users as service catalog. It also increases automation and delivers IT as a Service through VMware Cloud Director, reducing the required knowledge and skills of VMware infrastructure for end-users and developers. Cloud Director platform provides secure separation for business units, divisions, or subsidiary companies. Each group has isolated virtual resources, independent authentication, specific policy controls, and unique catalogs. These features enable a multitenant environment with multiple organizations sharing the same infrastructure. Visibility and resource control are restricted to each organization’s virtual data center (VDC).
End users or developers require some prerequisites to create applications such as VM creation, operating system, and application installation on virtual datacenter. HPE places an add-on solution, App Launchpad, to provide platform-as-a-service that enables developers to launch applications within a second. App Launchpad is integrated with VMware Marketplace (Bitnami), which offers pre-configured, tested, and supported open-source applications.
In addition, vRealize operation tenant app provides a cloud consumption dashboard, performance and capacity information for tenants and users as well as metering capabilities that allow the service providers to charge back to their customer base and individual customers to review billing data.
To provide disaster recovery and data protection for customers we use Zerto, which is simple, software-only platform that uses continuous data protection to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility and eliminate the risks and complexity of modernization and self-service adoption.
In order to achieve cost control, automation, self-service, backup, disaster recovery and effective resource allocation, VMware Cloud Director is integrated with many building blocks like Zerto, TenantApp, vROPs, App Launchpad, Usage Meter, VMware Cloud Director Extension, Bitnami, Helm chart, VMware Market Place and Local/Remote store. Each block provides different capabilities to make the end user experience better.
HPE can help you tap into the benefits of elasticity
HPE Advisory and Professional Services provides a wide range of services to its customers by combining applications, platforms, infrastructure, desktop, storage, network, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring and reporting, all under an as-a-service model.
We can help you achieve elasticity of resources in this different way, so that you can meet aggressive business goals. This approach promises to deliver greater agility and lower costs, while also providing the visibility and proactive management capabilities required to accelerate the realization of these benefits. This combo redirects IT resources’ attention from maintenance to innovation. You can benefit from a reduction in cost, which enables reinvestment in application modernization, end-user computing and IT business management – further steps on the journey to enabling IT as a service. You can make your organization more responsive, whether you’re in the early stages or already on the way to achieving IT as a service.
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