HPE Synergy and Composable Infrastructure

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In this video, recorded before the outbreak of COVID-19, we explain what HPE Composable Infrastructure is, and give an overview of how the HPE Synergy platform lets you deploy new services quicker than ever and dynamically automates your environment. With the rise in remote working and the need for ensuring business continuity, the benefits of composable infrastructure may be a perfect fit at this time.

What is Composable Infrastructure?

Composable Infrastructure is a fluid resource pool of compute, storage and networking elements, all sitting within a software-defined wrapper which manages everything, called HPE OneView. Composable Infrastructure relies on templates and profiles which can be ‘pushed’ to new server instances, storage volumes and networking connections in minutes. With the HPE OneView infrastructure management software, these IT resources can then be dynamically reallocated for maximum flexibility around how we deploy and manage our environment. Managing IT remotely can be challenge at the moment, but HPE OneView gives a simple, single solution to manage your infrastructure, wherever you are.

The final element which brings everything together is a universal API which connects into third-party vendors so that all resources can be managed through one single interface for simpler management and more dynamic IT service delivery.

How can Composable Infrastructure help organisations better scale their IT?

Composable Infrastructure is the latest step in a journey towards more automated and dynamic IT delivery, designed to help you grow through this uncertain time as well as advancing your organisation into the future.

In a traditional IT environment, infrastructure stacks are siloed with each application deployed on dedicated server, storage and networking components. This creates inefficiencies where infrastructure resources are underutilised and management of all the different silos can be complex.

With Converged Infrastructure from HPE, we move towards an IT landscape where resources are shared for greater efficiency and higher utilisation rates.

Today, we have Composable Infrastructure which builds on the principles of Converged Infrastructure but brings more flexibility through the ability to dynamically reallocate resources on the fly – for example, you might want to point a number of infrastructure resources at App A during the day, but reallocate these resources to App B at night. Composable Infrastructure lets you do that.

How does HPE Synergy fit into this?

HPE Synergy is a composable infrastructure platform containing all of the compute, storage, management and shared power and cooling requirements to build your dynamic composable infrastructure. With the HPE OneView infrastructure management tool, you can deploy compute and storage resources quicker than ever with HPE OneView’s template functionality which pushes out profiles centrally and lets you make changes to the live environment from a single interface. HPE OneView also offers remote support, perfect for organisations who find themselves managing a workforce of home-workers with remote systems.

For extra resiliency and redundancy, you can connect HPE Synergy frames together (up to 5 frames) with HPE Virtual Connect technology to scale your environment further. This is important for customers who want to scale their IT and manage all compute, storage and networking resources centrally through a software-defined and template-driven platform.

 Find out more about HPE Synergy here: https://hpe.com/uk/synergy

 This blog is part of a series, building on our light board videos, please find links to the others here:

• HPE SimpliVity Data Protection
• HPE SimpliVity - Performance Benefit
• New Fabric Choices on HPE Synergy
• Deploying SWD Storage within an HPE Synergy Frame
• Deploy Hybrid Cloud Solutions on to HPE Converged Infrastructure

If you’d like to pick our brains or discuss anything with our specialists, please get in touch today.

Joe Hardy
HPE UKI Solutions Architect

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