Make your VM management a breeze in your journey to hybrid cloud

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Simplify VM-to-infrastructure management with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition and VMware vVols

Provision and manage VMs with a cloud operational experience offered by HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition and VMware vVols. Learn more now.

–By Parissa Mohamadi, Product Manager for Virtualization, Containers, and Data Management Solutions, HPE

The world of enterprise IT infrastructure is constantly evolving to meet the needs of modern business. One area that has seen dramatic innovation in recent years is hybrid cloud computing. While the concept of a hybrid cloud offers the best of both private and public environments, it has historically been difficult to implement due to limitations in products and integration. However, the promise of hybrid cloud is close to being fully realized, thanks to innovations like VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes.

If you manage virtual machines (VMs), you know the headache of juggling storage and ensuring optimal performance. But what if there was a way to simplify it all? The combination of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition leveraging cloud-native HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) delivers just that.

VMware vVols: Transforming hybrid cloud environments

As shown in Figure 1, VMware vVols provides a storage policy-based framework that enables per-virtual machine storage management, rather than at the datastore level. This opens up new possibilities for efficiency, performance, and control. Valuable array features no longer need to be applied across an entire datastore. Now they can be tailored VM by VM. vVols intelligently offloads tasks to the storage layer, minimizing data movement. Capacity requirements are reduced, since organizatons only use the space actually needed by VMs. Management is simplified, as vVols automates provisioning and largely eliminates the need for traditional LUN management.

Figure 1. VMware vVols architecture

HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition: Radically simplifying experience for data infrastructure at scale across the lifecycle

Leveraging HPE Alletra dHCI, HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition changes the way you provision and manage VMs with a cloud operational experience that ultimately reduces your operating costs and optimizes your resource utilization. While helping to eliminate complexity with a unified cloud service for VM to infrastructure management, including public cloud VMs, it also enables global unified management and monitoring of VMs and infrastructure deployed at any location as well as 1-click, multisite upgrades.

Figure 2. HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition

Three benefits from this dynamic duo

Let's look at the top three ways the combination of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition and VMware vVols makes your life easier:

1. Smoother VMware vCenter integration – With this solution, integrating with VMware vCenter is a breeze. The VASA storage provider that enables vVols is embedded in the HPE Alletra dHCI and automatically configured during initial setup. No lengthy professional services engagement required!
2. Hassle-free VM management – Ever waste time copying data back and forth from host to storage when snapshotting, replicating, or cloning VMs? With this solution, those operations happen on the array side. That eliminates unnecessary data transfers and speeds up completion.
3. Simplified provisioning policies – With this solution, you can simplify setting Quality of Service (QoS) and setting HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery policies on a per VM basis.

In today's busy IT environment, simplicity is king. By combining the power of this solution, you get the management ease you need with the performance your business demands. Looking for an easier way to manage VM storage in the hybrid cloud? It's time to take this solution for a spin.

Ready to learn more?

Check out this technical paper that serves as a guide outlining the creation of VM storage policies and demonstrates GUI-based workflows for restoring, undeleting, creating snapshots of, and replicating individual VMs for HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition leveraging HPE Alletra dHCI.

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Parissa Mohamadi, Product Manager for Virtualization, Containers. and Data Management Solutions, HPE

Parissa leads the 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.

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