Use Cases

Are you struggling to keep pace with ever-increasing workloads on a never-increasing budget? Virtualization delivers the benefits of faster deployment and consolidation, yet it demands greater performance and scalability from data center networks.

The HPE B-series SN6500B Fibre Channel Switch meets the needs of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading 16 Gb FC technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable increased flexibility and investment protection, the SN6500B switch scales from 48 to 96 ports and supports 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gb/s speeds in an efficiently designed 2U package. It also provides a simplified deployment process and features a user-friendly, point-and-click interface. The SN6500B offers low-cost access to SAN technology while providing "pay-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.

Are your ever expanding data storage, protection and retention needs getting out of hand? Are you concerned about how secure your data will be in the event of a ransomware attack? The HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library is the gold standard for mid-range tape automation, delivering best-in-class scalability, density, and performance to meet your short-term backup and disaster recovery data protection needs, as well as long-term archival requirements. Keep pace with data growth by seamlessly scaling up to seven modules—without disrupting daily data protection. Reduce TCO by reusing HPE StoreEver MSL tape drives while adding more capacity and performance as you need it. Competitively priced, the HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library offers an outstanding return on your storage investment.

Could managing your HPE Synergy infrastructure, HPE ProLiant Servers, HPE enclosures, and HPE Virtual Connect with a single, effective product be a benefit to your business?

HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center provides seamless integration of the powerful HPE Synergy, HPE ProLiant, and HPE BladeSystem manageability features into Microsoft® System Center. Licensed with HPE Synergy and HPE OneView, these extensions deliver comprehensive system health and alerting, driver and firmware updates, and detailed inventory. Integrating the management features of HPE Synergy, HPE ProLiant Servers, and HPE BladeSystem into Microsoft System Center consoles, administrators can gain greater control of their technology environments. This provides consistency for software deployment and updates and enables a faster response in the event of server or storage failure, reducing the risk of downtime.

Are you looking to accelerate deployment of SAS High-Performance Visual Analytics? HPE Converged Infrastructure for SAS High-Performance Visual Analytics is optimized for the in-memory analytics engine, scaling from 1, or 4 to 256+ HPE ProLiant BL and DL Servers, delivering analytical results to Web browsers and mobile devices in seconds to minutes. These pre-approved configurations support deployments of non-distributed to highly distributed environments. Flexible SMP and MPP configurations that are sized to your workload, and are integrated by the HPE factory closest to you, wherever you are worldwide, regardless of the organizational size. HPE performs onsite installation, working with you to verify network connectivity before a SAS® consultant completes the final software setup. HPE Financial Services offers financing for the total solution, both HPE CI and SAS solutions alike. This solution enables the co-existence of data nodes with Cloudera®. They are supported by SAS EEC.

HPE OneView is the foundation of today's software-defined infrastructure, helping IT deploy infrastructure faster, simplify lifecycle operations, and increase productivity. It lets IT compose workloads like code, while increasing agility, as well as enabling predictability and compliance. With HPE OneView, customers can orchestrate their infrastructure from core to cloud by integrating with partner cloud management platforms.

Do you require higher performance for artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference, high-performance computing (HPC) or graphics? NVIDIA® Accelerators for HPE help solve the world’s most important scientific, industrial, and business challenges with AI and HPC. Visualize complex content to create cutting-edge products, tell immersive stories, and reimagine cities of the future. Extract new insights from massive datasets. Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers with NVIDIA accelerators are designed for the age of elastic computing, providing unmatched acceleration at every scale.

Has your data center become an inflexible, monolithic, hard-wired, under-utilized collection of systems and complex processes that require excessive manpower to operate? The HPE Integrity Superdome 2 Server family based on a blade design, a common network fabric, comprehensive cross-domain control and advanced power and cooling management delivers a mainframe replacement. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Converged Infrastructure (CI) delivers consolidation, modernization, shared services and business continuity initiatives by simplifying, consolidating and automating everything from the start. It provides mission-critical scalability and reliability for the most demanding applications and workloads, while supporting up to thirty-two 8 core Intel® Itanium® 9700 processors. The HPE Integrity Superdome 2 Server supports up to 8 TB of memory and has error correction code (ECC) and built-in redundancy, helping you take advantage of the performance benefits of Itanium processors.

The HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit provides a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive and Removable Disk Backup System solution for both direct-attach USB or SAS backup and archiving applications, or a combination of both LTO drives and RDX docks in the same 1U rack-mount kit. Available in a generic format supporting both SAS and USB interfaces, the 1U HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal tape drives with a maximum capacity of 60 TB (compressed) using two HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 drives. The 1U enclosure also supports up to two internal HPE RDX docks with a maximum capacity of 8 TB per backup session when using two HPE RDX 4 TB USB removable hard disk drives.

The HPE FlexFabric 5900 Switch Series are high density, low latency Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches suited for deployment at the access layer and management network of medium-sized and large enterprise data centers.
To meet the increased demand for virtualization, scalability, and programmability, these switches provide high performance switching with low latency and user friendly OS (Comware v7). Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) helps in simpler, flatter, and agile networks by combining multiple physical switches into a logical device. Network and security features coupled with dual, redundant hot swappable power-supplies provide investment protection, reliability, and availability, and allow advanced chassis power management.
These switches also provide network visibility through multi-vendor network management with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC).