How HCI ecosystems help modernize your enterprise

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Learn about new cloud solutions leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation on next-gen HCI

Discover the benefits that come with combining VMware Cloud Foundation with HPE Alletra dHCI. By Chuck Wood, Senior Product Marketing Manager, HPE Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure

We all know this to be true: Data is the life force for activating the next generation of business and operation models that move your business forward. To increase the pace of innovation, enterprises rely on a wealth of ecosystem solutions and knowledge. To that end, HPE, along with our broad ecosystem of partners and technology providers, enables dramatic advancements in modernizing business. This includes key partners like AMD, Intel, and VMware, as well as value-added partners, systems integrators, and distributors.

As you seek simpler solutions that encompass the ecosystem, you likely find them challenging to integrate. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has certainly made life easier for your VM admins. With support for VMware, it’s now simple to deploy a flexible framework that abstracts resources from physical infrastructure – one that uses policy-based automation to eliminate manual processes and lets applications be deployed quickly.

But with the broad ecosystem of solutions to leverage, you need to consider your apps and workloads and ask yourself: What’s the best architecture for my business? Where will the workloads run? In the cloud? On-premises? Or maybe somewhere outside a traditional data center?

Each environment and vertical market is different, with varying requirements and rules. Contrary to the belief of other HCI vendors, one hammer does not address every nail, and it’s a risk to your business service-level agreements (SLAs) if you follow their story. What you and your business really need are workload-optimized systems for your applications, using systems that are specifically designed for your business requirements and can leverage a broad set of ecosystem solutions.

What you really need is an HCI solution without compromise

HPE provides just that with workload-optimized solutions available as a service through HPE GreenLake. One example: HPE Alletra dHCI. Designed to provide a disaggregated HCI (dHCI) architecture, this solution is ideal for business-critical apps and mixed workloads that demand 99.9999% of data availability guaranteed and sub-millisecond latency. 

HPE also delivers unique solutions to help modernize IT and aid with development of modern apps. One example here: Our new cloud solution with VMware Cloud Foundation leveraging workload domains on HPE Alletra dHCI. 

VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Alletra dHCI overview

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is the hybrid cloud platform for modernizing data centers and deploying modern apps. Integrating all infrastructure components with automation built into the stack, VCF provides a turnkey hybrid cloud solution for complex Kubernetes and traditional VM environments that:

• Enables you to move faster by eliminating complex provisioning and management processes
• Allows quick, repeatable, secure deployments based on a standardized configuration
• Reduces total cost of ownership

VCF can be flexibly configured with workload domains which represent an application-ready infrastructure. A workload domain represents a logical unit that groups ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter Server instance with specific characteristics according to VMware best practices.

For workload domains, you can now leverage HPE Alletra dHCI designed for mixed workloads at scale. This offer expands your choices with workload domains as shown in this illustration. By unlocking IT agility, this solution ensures your apps are always on and always fast. HPE Alletra dHCI provides an effortless experience for anyone with VM-centric and AI-driven operations. It lowers costs up to 59% by eliminating overprovisioning using flexible independent scaling of compute and storage, with industry-leading data efficiency.^[1] What’s more, HPE Alletra dHCI maximizes agility by unlocking the cloud experience across hybrid cloud.

Leverage HPE and VMware innovation

For more than 21 years, HPE and VMware have partnered to co-innovate joint solutions that modernize IT infrastructure. The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation with HPE Alletra dHCI for workload domains is one of many recent examples of innovation that work to your benefit.

Attending VMware Explore in August?

I invite you to attend this session on Wednesday, August 31 to learn more about HPE and VMware: Manage, Protect and Maintain Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Confidence [MCLB1612US]

Want to learn more?

• Check out the solution brief: Accelerate hybrid cloud deployment in HCI style – HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware
• Take a test drive: Experience HPE Alletra dHCI now
• Read the new blog to see how HPE Alletra improves outcomes for healthcare customers: Modernize the hospital data center with personalized healthcare IT

[1] ESG Economic Validation Report, February 2022

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Chuck Wood 

Chuck is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for HPE Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure. He is responsible for all phases of product marketing, leading hyperconverged solutions for software-defined, dynamic data centers. He blogs about his professional passion around demonstrating excellent customer outcomes based on HPE HCI and dHCI. Connect with Chuck on LinkedIn. And find him on Twitter @chasypwood.

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