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Unleashing the power of the HPE ProLiant DX Gen11 server portfolio with Intel and AMD processors

In today's digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on robust and scalable IT infrastructures to meet their growing demands. The HPE ProLiant DX Gen11 server portfolio, coupled with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), presents a powerful solution that combines the performance of advanced processors with flexibility and simplicity.

This blog explores the key features and benefits of the HPE ProLiant DX server series, its collaboration with Intel and AMD processors, and how it integrates seamlessly with Nutanix HCI, leveraging Nutanix software for virtualization, database, and software-defined storage.

Built on a trusted, highly secure, resilient platform—HPE ProLiant DX Gen11 servers powered by the latest Intel and AMD processors

Leveraging the long-time leadership of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in server quality, standards compliance, hardware validation testing, and performance, HPE ProLiant DX Gen11 servers provide the building blocks you need to accelerate digital transformation and power your private cloud environment.

The latest HPE ProLiant DX Gen11 servers are based on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. Designed to accelerate data center growth, these processors take a workload-first approach to innovation, design, and delivery—focusing on real-world workloads with technology that can support your pain points and accelerate your business. Powered by built-in accelerators, these processors help boost performance and efficiency across your distributed enterprise, from edge to cloud.

The HPE ProLiant DX family of servers offers a broad range of configurations:

• NEW HPE ProLiant DX320 Gen11—Entry-level model optimized for price performance and edge workloads
• HPE ProLiant DX360/5 Gen11—A high-performance compute solution in a small 1U package designed for density-optimized environments

HPE ProLiant DX380/5 Gen11—For enterprise compute workloads, offering expanded storage and I/O bandwidth


Providing engineering excellence to the Nutanix portfolio

HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio. The HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio contains a comprehensive range of servers designed to deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and scalability for your modern data center. HPE ProLiant DX servers come in various form factors, offering flexibility to suit diverse business needs. With a focus on providing optimal performance and efficiency, these servers are a perfect fit for running mission-critical workloads, virtualization, and software-defined storage environments.

Collaboration with Intel and AMD processors. To ensure superior processing power, the HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio collaborates with industry-leading processor manufacturers Intel and AMD. This collaboration enables you to choose the best-suited processors for your specific requirements, whether it be Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors. Both Intel and AMD processors offer exceptional performance, advanced security features, and scalability, empowering your organization to effectively meet the demands of modern workloads.

Software-defined storage (SDS). This transformative technology abstracts storage resources from the underlying hardware, enabling you to manage storage more efficiently and dynamically. The HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio seamlessly integrates with Nutanix HCI, leveraging its comprehensive SDS capabilities. Nutanix provides a unified storage fabric that simplifies data management, improves scalability, and enhances resiliency, enabling you to consolidate your storage infrastructure and achieve substantial cost savings.

Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure. This groundbreaking solution combines compute, storage, and virtualization into a single integrated platform. By integrating Nutanix HCI with the HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio, you can achieve a hyperconverged environment that is highly scalable, resilient, and easy to manage. Nutanix HCI eliminates the complexities associated with traditional infrastructure silos, allowing you to streamline operations, reduce costs, and deliver superior performance.

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). This robust virtualization platform forms the foundation of the Nutanix HCI stack. AHV provides a secure and scalable virtualization solution that simplifies management and enhances performance. With the integration of AHV, the HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio delivers a complete virtualization solution that ensures seamless workload mobility, high availability, and efficient resource utilization.

Delivering a solution-based approach

Working together, HPE and Nutanix offer hybrid cloud services that address the following use cases.

Private cloud

HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—Private Cloud enables you to spin up cloud-based services from dedicated IT infrastructure inside your organization. With this solution, you can reliably deliver applications and data at any scale, as well as provision, update, and perform disaster recovery with one click—while also enabling end-user computing, database management, dev/test, ROBO environments, and big data analytics. With HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—Private Cloud, you benefit from:

• Flexible choice
• Cost transparency
• Reduced complexity

Databases

HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—Databases is designed to consolidate disparate workloads into one efficient management platform by streamlining database deployment, management, and operations. With just one click, you can rapidly provision, clone, patch, refresh, and perform backups, while the pay-as-you-go model drastically reduces expenses by eliminating up-front costs. HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—Databases delivers:  

• High reliability and excellent control
• Superior scalability
• Enhanced economics

End-user computing

HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—End-User Computing offers an effective means of distributing new applications via a software-as-a-service model (SaaS). Through SaaS, you can enjoy additional support for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and choose-your-own-device (CYOD) programs, enabling IT to supply users with the applications they need—when they need them—while at the same time strengthening security. You can start small and quickly scale without having to re-architect the environment. HPE GreenLake for Nutanix—End-User Computing is:

• Simple to use
• Reliable
• Secure

All offerings in this portfolio include the features and functions you need for hybrid cloud success:

• Security
  • HPE secured industry-standard servers enhanced by Nutanix
  • HPE silicon root of trust for providing 24/7 protection against firmware corruption
  • Enhanced terms for cyber insurance through the Marsh Cyber Catalyst program[1]
  • Nutanix Flow for securing virtual machines (VMs) and apps in the event of a firewall breach
• AI and predictive analytics
  • Nutanix Prism Pro leverages AI to greatly improve system uptime and performance.
  • Data is collected globally from millions of server sensors to predict and prevent local infrastructure problems before your business operations are disrupted.
  • A wellness dashboard proactively monitors and identifies hardware/software issues 24/7.
• Cloud-like economics
  • Leverage best-of-breed cloud computing and on-site IT.
  • Pay for only what you consume on a monthly basis.
  • Use capacity on demand to keep pace with business needs.
  • Reduce over-provisioning by up to 30%.

Reduce deployment times with HPE GreenLake.

The HPE ProLiant DX server portfolio, in collaboration with Intel and AMD processors and combined with Nutanix HCI and Acropolis Hypervisor, presents a powerful solution to help you optimize your IT infrastructure. This integrated solution offers unparalleled performance, scalability, and simplicity, empowering you to embrace SDS, virtualization, and hyperconverged architectures. By leveraging the capabilities of these cutting-edge technologies, your organization can drive innovation, improve efficiency, and gain a competitive edge in the digital era.

What’s next?

Come to the Nutanix booth at HPE Discover Las Vegas, June 19-22, where we can talk more about HPE GreenLake for Nutanix solutions. You can also engage with your local HPE or Nutanix account team to learn how your organization can benefit from these flexible solutions designed to simplify and secure your IT from edge to cloud.

Publicly available assets

• Nutanix and HPE—Better Together partner page
• HPE GreenLake for Nutanix Solution brief
• HPE GreenLake for Nutanix Data sheet
• HPE GreenLake Marketplace
• Nutanix on HPE GreenLake—Technical paper
• Digital Transformation—Database operations with Nutanix and HPE
• Solution brief–—Databases  
• Solution brief—EUC
• Solution brief—Private cloud

[1] Organizations that adopt products with Cyber Catalyst designation may be eligible for enhanced terms and conditions on cyber insurance policies.