Protect HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software VMs with HPE Solutions with Cohesity

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As businesses take a fresh look at their virtualization strategies in light of software packaging evolutions, cutting-edge technologies, and the exciting demands of AI workloads, the goal is clear: trim down costs while keeping complexity at bay.

Enter HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software! This innovative hypervisor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers a seamless interface for managing both kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environments and VMware ecosystems. It empowers users to manage HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software alongside VMware vSphere and provision workloads on-demand—all without the hassle of vendor lock-in. This means that businesses can effortlessly transition their existing virtualized workloads to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and enjoy a streamlined virtual machine (VM)-vending experience across both platforms, resulting in significant cost savings and reduced complexity.

However, as we celebrate the benefits of virtualization, it’s crucial to remain vigilant about security and protection of VMs. Given the shared nature of the underlying hardware, VMs can be targets for cyberattackers seeking to access sensitive data or spread malware throughout a network. That's why safeguarding VMs is essential; a breach in one VM could potentially jeopardize all VMs on that host.

Fear not! HPE Solutions with Cohesity software offers a validated data protection solution for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software VMs, leveraging an agent-based backup approach.

How HPE Solutions with Cohesity help protect HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software VMs

HPE Solutions with Cohesity revolutionize your multicloud data platform experience! This incredible solution offers a comprehensive array of data management services, whether you prefer on-premises or cloud-based options. Built with a flexible architecture that effortlessly allows you to expand into new use cases, HPE Solutions with Cohesity enhances operational simplicity and drives down TCO.

What sets HPE Solutions with Cohesity apart is its unique ability to empower organizations in protecting data and applications, detecting cyber threats, managing backups, and rapidly recovering from attacks across diverse IT environments. All this while instantly boosting operational efficiency and providing invaluable visibility and analytics for all your data!

When managing your VMs through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software, you can trust that they’re securely protected with Cohesity DataProtect. The process begins with downloading an agent directly from the Cohesity UI, which you can install manually on the VM. If you’re looking to streamline the installation, feel free to use your existing automation applications for large environments. The Cohesity DataProtect agent supports an array of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX.

Once the agent is up and running on your VM, simply register the IP address or network name as a source in the Cohesity UI. After registering all the required VM sources, create a protection group that includes these VMs. When the protection group kicks into action, the agent-based backup operates seamlessly on the VMs hosted within the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software cluster, just as if they were physical servers. See the following figure.

To learn more about protecting HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software with HPE Solutions with Cohesity, checkout the Protecting HPE Morpheus VM Essentials using HPE Solutions with Cohesity technical brief and be sure to visit HPE Solutions with Cohesity website.

Meet Storage Experts blogger Parissa Mohamadi, product manager for virtualization, containers and data management solutions, HPE

Parissa leads define sales enablement and go-to-market plan for HPE virtualization, containers, and data management solutions (cloud-enabled data protection for SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server), including driving joint enablement and collateral development with partners such as VMware, Veeam, Commvault, and Cohesity. Connect with Parissa on LinkedIn.