Discover how HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition are simple to deploy and manage while providing consistently high performance. And yes, also very cost efficient when it comes to running your Splunk workloads.
– By Keith Vanderford, Storage Solutions Engineer, HPE
Do you spend too much time managing your Splunk environment and not enough using it to derive the valuable insights your organization needs? HPE Alletra dHCI can help you gain back the time you need to derive value from your data and drive business outcomes. How? By helping you spend less time managing complex infrastructure. The HPE Alletra dHCI platform is a software-defined infrastructure built on the HPE Alletra 6000 all-flash storage array and HPE ProLiant servers. It’s simple to deploy and manage, and is designed to have consistently high performance.
It's your choice
HPE Alletra dHCI is available as a self-managed on-premises deployment. Or via HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition (PCBE) as a fully managed service with on-premises consumption-based pricing and a self-service experience.
The self-managed on-premises implementation comes to you as a factory-integrated solution with an intuitive cloud management interface. HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition (PCBE) delivers the same great solution as a fully managed, pay-per-use private cloud, offering both fixed and variable expense models for extreme flexibility. Either deployment model gives you the ability to build self-service cloud infrastructure on demand. By using VMware vCenter®, you can manage the entire solution with a single pane of glass from anywhere.
HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE GreenLake PCBE both include the HPE InfoSight intelligent data platform, with its trend analysis and AI-driven predictive analytics. These built-in capabilities of HPE InfoSight enable you to anticipate and prevent the bottlenecks that sometimes arise because of underpowered or overloaded
When the time comes to scale up your infrastructure to accommodate growth, the AI-driven recommendations in HPE InfoSight help you to know how much of each resource to add. This helps you efficiently expand your Splunk environment without guesswork and without overprovisioning.
Because HPE InfoSight helps you allocate your resources in the most efficient way, you get improved hardware utilization. This higher hardware utilization, in turn, means your Splunk deployment takes less rack space and requires less power and cooling.
The benefits really add up
The entire HPE Alletra dHCI solution is simple to manage through a single cloud console using vCenter. The built-in policy and template-driven deployment of resources helps to automate many of the time-consuming manual tasks administrators and IT staff often perform in configuring and maintaining the infrastructure. This lowers your overall administrative overhead, which along with higher hardware utilization, helps contribute to a lower TCO.
Another great benefit of using HPE Aleltra dHCI or HPE GreenLake PCBE is that the predictive analytics of HPE InfoSight help you maximize the uptime of your Splunk deployment. The built-in graphical tools of HPE InfoSight continuously perform side-by-side monitoring of a host of parameters on your storage and compute resources, using trend analysis. From these trends, the AI-powered recommendations identify degraded components and advise you to replace them before a failure occurs.
If you have a need for long term retention due to compliance or regulatory requirements, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE GreenLake PCBE both make it easy to add another tier of storage. Whether you are using Splunk Classic, or Splunk SmartStore, HPE provides S3 object storage via HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING in a single site or two different multi-site configurations. Any of these object storage configurations can be added to your HPE Alletra dHCI deployment to provide a total solution that is scalable and resilient, while at the same time being simple to manage, and very cost efficient.
Whether you choose to manage the infrastructure yourself or have it managed for you as a service through the HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE InfoSight deliver the perfect infrastructure for making the most of your Splunk deployment. Your infrastructure is always on – and always-fast. Management is simple with the VM-centric infrastructure, and the AI-driven automation and recommendations help to further simplify and optimize the management of your environment. Both implementations deliver cloud-like agility with an on-premises deployment, at a significantly lower cost than public cloud.
To learn more about the great benefits of deploying Splunk on HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition, read the white paper: HPE Alletra dHCI solutions for Splunk
You might also be interested in watching this 10-monute video to learn about multisite active-active Splunk deployment with HPE and Scality.
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