Double the capacity, advanced AI-Ops, and a new always-modern storage ownership experience
Introducing enhanced scale-out disaggregated storage, expanded AI-powered manageability, and future-proofed investment protection – powered by the unique architecture of HPE Alletra Storage MP. – By Simon Watkins, Director, WW Product Marketing, HPE Storage & Cloud Data Services
HPE just announced key enhancements to HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra MP, the industry’s only disaggregated, scale-out block storage with a 100% data availability guarantee. The new release boosts scalability with 2x more capacity,[1] simplifies management with new cross-stack AI-Ops capabilities, and
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP leverages a unique software-defined, modular, and shared everything architecture – removing many of the scalability roadblocks and compromises associated with legacy dual controller-based storage today. It’s this unique block storage architecture that provides the foundation for the announcements that we are making today.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features and capabilities of this new release – and what it means to you.
Better performance and better economics with disaggregated, scale-out storage
Unlike traditional node pair storage architectures, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP is built on a disaggregated, shared everything architecture that enables it to flexibly and cost-effectively scale out to keep pace with the growing and unpredictable demands of traditional, modern, and consolidated workloads.
The disaggregation is made possible by standardized composable building blocks, comprising separate compute (controller nodes) and capacity (NVMe expansion shelves/JBOFs), interconnected by a high-speed, redundant NVMe-OF back-end switch fabric.
The evolution from a traditional node pair design to this modern architecture enables you to scale capacity and performance independently – for greater efficiency and lower costs. You gain the flexibility to fine-tune, adapt, and elastically scale storage environments in line with workload requirements and evolving business needs.
The new release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP continues to deliver on the promise of disaggregated storage with 2x more capacity,[1] enabling you to start small, scale big – from 15TB to around 5.6 PB[2] – with support for up to sixteen JBOF expansion shelves. What’s more, support for 8-to-24 SSDs per enclosure – with the ability to upgrade drives in 2-drive increments and controller nodes in increments of one – enables you to maximize efficiency and cost savings via granular performance and capacity upgrades.
Simplify management with an AI-driven cloud management experience on-premises
We know that storage administration and support still account for most storage costs today. Streamlining and automating IT operations with advanced AI-Ops features and capabilities is an essential requirement for improving productivity and efficiency.
HPE has a great track record for innovation in this area with HPE Infosight – which for the last 10 years or more has led the industry in AI-Ops for infrastructure. We’re now taking this leadership to the next level by integrating and enhancing all the rich capabilities of HPE InfoSight directly into the HPE GreenLake platform.
AI-Ops is not just about improving the support experience with predictive support automation, important though that is. The key value of our new platform-native AI capabilities is to drive autonomous, self-driving storage - spanning fleet management and intelligent lifecycle operations, as well as AI-driven analytics and recommendations.
A great example of this is our new cross-stack analytics for virtualized environments capability. This provides advanced troubleshooting via a granular topology map of the resources that are used by every virtual machine (VM) connected to an Alletra MP array.
Now, instead of searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, you can correlate the performance of VMs in a datastore with insights into hypervisor and host resource constraints such as vCPU, memory, and network. This helps in determining VM latency factors, whether from the storage, the host, or the network. It also helps in taking corrective action on noisy-neighbor VMs and reclaiming space from underused VMs. Watch to experience how HPE Cross-Stack Analytics simplifies troubleshooting in virtualized environments.
These new cross-stack analytics capabilities combined with the AI-driven workload intelligence offered by OpsRamp - provides a holistic visibility and analytics experience across the stack. This includes the storage, virtualization, and application layers – all easily accessible from the HPE GreenLake platform.
Future-proofed investment that never gets old
HPE Timeless is a new storage ownership program that enhances investment protection for customers purchasing HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra MP. It delivers an always-modern, simplified, and worry-free ownership experience with an easily upgradeable storage architecture, non-disruptive controller upgrades, all-inclusive software, and storage guarantees for 100% data availability, data reduction and customer satisfaction.
- Built on a timeless architecture: HPE Timeless is enhanced and supported by the nondisruptive scale-out architecture of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra MP. You can scale performance and capacity independently with disaggregated hardware, enabling more flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs for evolving workloads. Start small, scale big, and boost ROI with nondisruptive, data-in-place upgrades.
- No forklift upgrades: With Timeless Storage, you can protect your investment and keep your storage continuously up to date with a nondisruptive controller refresh. This reduces your TCO and can saves an average of 30% over traditional forklift upgrades. Even better, it keeps your storage costs predictable, alleviates technology obsolescence concerns, and helps eliminate traditional storage purchasing cycles and costly rip-and-replace upgrades.
- Always-improving data services: Unlock the full potential of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP with our all-inclusive software subscription. Get access to all our operating system features and enhancements, including AI-driven cloud operations on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, at no additional cost.
- Rely on 100% data availability – guaranteed: Forget the disruption of unexpected downtime. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP leverages an AI-driven, disaggregated, no-single-point-of-failure platform to guarantee resilient 100% data availability for every customer and every array. It’s a cost nothing, do-nothing guarantee. And with our industry-leading AIOps for infrastructure predicting and preventing problems, your arrays get smarter, better, and more reliable every day.
- Store more for less with the HPE StoreMore Guarantee: The advanced data reduction technologies of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP change the economics of flash and help you get the most out of your system’s flash capacity while improving media endurance. We back this up with guaranteed 4:1 data compaction ratios for your workloads. With the HPE StoreMore Guarantee, you get superior efficiency for your workloads, reducing physical storage costs, saving energy, and decreasing data center footprint.
- 30-day satisfaction guarantee: We believe that once you experience HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, you will become a satisfied, lifelong customer. That’s why we offer a satisfaction guarantee that stands behind a transformed customer and support experience. Try HPE GreenLake for Block Storage for 30 days at no risk. If you are not completely satisfied with the benefits and capabilities of your storage system as described in the product specifications, we will work with you to make things right.
Watch and learn more about how to transform storage ownership with the HPE Timeless Program.
Simplified data migration
You have many reasons to move to the new HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP platform. However, the process of transitioning from aging hardware is often fraught with challenges and concerns. Now you can remove the risk and complexity from switching to a new storage platform via quick, non-disruptive data migration. With the Data Services Cloud Console on the HPE GreenLake platform, you can move data from legacy HPE storage arrays to HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra MP – online, non-disruptively, and without complex planning or dependency on extra tools. Watch this video to see how it's done.
Ready to learn more?
Check out:
- HPE announcement news release: HPE builds foundation for next-gen data management with software-defined storage and AI-driven automation
- Top 12 reasons to choose HPE GreenLake for Block Storage powered by HPE Alletra Storage brochure
- HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP solution brief
- Technology Validation: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with HPE Alletra Storage MP analyst white paper
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[1] Compared to previous release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP
[2] Compared to previous release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP
[3] Fully loaded configuration (16 xJBOFs) with 384 x 15.36TB NVMe SSDs
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