Services and Support

HPE Foundation Care Service is composed of comprehensive hardware and software services aimed to help increase the availability of your IT infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technical resources provide support and work with your IT team to help you resolve hardware and software problems with HPE and selected third-party products.

For hardware products covered by HPE Foundation Care, the service includes remote diagnosis and support, as well as on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve an issue. For eligible HPE hardware products, this service may also include Basic Software Support and Collaborative Call Management for selected non-HPE software.

Contact HPE for more information and determination regarding which eligible software products may be included as part of your hardware product coverage. For software products covered by HPE Foundation Care, HPE provides remote technical support and access to software updates and patches.

Designed to provide a smooth startup, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 Storage Installation and Startup Service provides deployment of your HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 Storage, helping to ensure proper installation in your storage environment as well as helping you increase the benefit from your storage investment.

The service provides activities required to help you deploy your HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 Storage into operation. With the assistance of your designated IT storage administrator, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise service specialist deploys your array as more fully described in the Service features table.

When ordered with hardware upgrade products, the service also provides deployment of hardware upgrades to your existing HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 Storage.

The service includes the following:

For new arrays, configuration and presentation of a test virtual volume using nonproduction data for up to two hosts

For array upgrades, installation and configuration of the array upgrade products as further detailed in the following sections

Reconfiguration of your existing array—for example, virtual volumes, hosts, or a SAN—is outside the scope of this service.

For installation of the array into a rack, supply, assembly, configuration, and positioning of the rack are excluded from this service. Please refer to additional exclusions in the Service limitations section.

Designed to provide a smooth startup, HPE Primera Base Software Installation and Startup Service provides deployment of your HPE Primera storage software. It helps to ensure proper installation in your storage environment and increase the benefit from your storage investment.

Complementing your new HPE Primera Base software, HPE Primera Base Software Installation and Startup Service provides the necessary activities required to help you deploy Dynamic Optimization, Priority Optimization, System Reporter, Virtual Copy, and provide an overview of Virtual Domains and Virtual Lock. With the assistance of your designated IT storage administrator, an HPE service specialist deploys your HPE Primera Base software as more fully described in the Service features table.

Deployment of Remote Copy, Peer Persistence, Peer Motion, Cluster Extension, Online Import, Recovery Manager Central, and Smart SAN for HPE Primera products are excluded from this service.

Separate services are available (for details see Notes in the Ordering information section).

For HPE Primera Virtual Copy, this service provides a limited implementation to help you get Virtual Copy up and running quickly and to provide a demonstration of the product’s key features using sample or test data only. The following advanced deliverables are excluded from this service but are available via the HPE Data Replication Solution Service for HPE Primera Virtual Copy software:

• Implementation and testing of the HPE Primera Virtual Copy software configuration using production volumes or a production application

• Other services that address the unique requirements of your organization, such as verification of multiple applications you have configured; scripting; or integration and configuration of your applications by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, backup environment, or databases (scripting can help enable integration and end-to-end automation within your organization’s environment)

This service is applicable only for supported environments. Refer to additional exclusions in the Service limitations section.

HPE Proactive Care offers an integrated set of reactive and proactive services designed to help you improve the stability and operation of your converged infrastructure to achieve better business outcomes. In a complex converged and virtualized environment, many components need to work together effectively. HPE Proactive Care has been specifically designed to support devices in these environments, providing enhanced support that covers servers, operating systems, hypervisors, storage, storage area networks (SANs), and networks.

In the event of a service incident, HPE Proactive Care provides you with an enhanced call experience with access to advanced technical solution specialists, who will manage your case from start to finish with the goal of reducing the impact to your business while helping you resolve critical issues more quickly. Hewlett Packard Enterprise employs enhanced incident management procedures intended to provide rapid resolution of complex incidents.

In addition, the technical solution specialists providing your HPE Proactive Care support are equipped with automation technologies and tools designed to help reduce downtime and increase productivity.

Should an incident occur, HPE Proactive Care includes on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve the issue. You can choose from a range of hardware reactive support levels to meet your business and operational needs.

HPE Proactive Care includes firmware and software version analysis for supported devices, providing you with a list of recommendations to keep your HPE Proactive Care covered infrastructure at the recommended revision levels. You will receive a regular proactive scan of your HPE Proactive Care covered devices, which can help you to identify and resolve configuration problems. HPE Proactive Care also provides quarterly incident reporting intended to help you identify problem trends and prevent repeat problems.

HPE Foundation Care Service is composed of comprehensive hardware and software services aimed to help increase the availability of your IT infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technical resources provide support and work with your IT team to help you resolve hardware and software problems with HPE and selected third-party products.

For hardware products covered by HPE Foundation Care, the service includes remote diagnosis and support, as well as on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve an issue. For eligible HPE hardware products, this service may also include Basic Software Support and Collaborative Call Management for selected non-HPE software.

Contact HPE for more information and determination regarding which eligible software products may be included as part of your hardware product coverage. For software products covered by HPE Foundation Care, HPE provides remote technical support and access to software updates and patches.

HPE Foundation Care Service is composed of comprehensive hardware and software services aimed to help increase the availability of your IT infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technical resources provide support and work with your IT team to help you resolve hardware and software problems with HPE and selected third-party products.

For hardware products covered by HPE Foundation Care, the service includes remote diagnosis and support, as well as on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve an issue. For eligible HPE hardware products, this service may also include Basic Software Support and Collaborative Call Management for selected non-HPE software.

Contact HPE for more information and determination regarding which eligible software products may be included as part of your hardware product coverage. For software products covered by HPE Foundation Care, HPE provides remote technical support and access to software updates and patches.

HPE Service Credits gives the customer the flexibility to choose from a variety of specialized service activities. These include assessments, performance analysis, firmware management, professional services, and operational best practices to supplement the services provided under the active warranty or support services coverage with HPE. The service activities are designed to span a broad spectrum of IT technology domains including traditional in-house IT, Big Data, converged infrastructures, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The credit approach allows the customer to select the specific services they need, when they need them, to help them maximize their IT performance and achieve their business goals.

HPE Foundation Care Service is composed of comprehensive hardware and software services aimed to help increase the availability of your IT infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technical resources provide support and work with your IT team to help you resolve hardware and software problems with HPE and selected third-party products.

For hardware products covered by HPE Foundation Care, the service includes remote diagnosis and support, as well as on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve an issue. For eligible HPE hardware products, this service may also include Basic Software Support and Collaborative Call Management for selected non-HPE software.

Contact HPE for more information and determination regarding which eligible software products may be included as part of your hardware product coverage. For software products covered by HPE Foundation Care, HPE provides remote technical support and access to software updates and patches.

Updates for selected HPE-supported third-party software products are included, as they are made available from the original software manufacturer.

In addition, HPE Foundation Care provides electronic access to related product and support information, enabling any member of your IT staff to locate this commercially available essential information. For third-party products, access is subject to availability of information from the original manufacturer.

You can choose from a set of reactive support levels to meet your business and operational needs.

HPE Foundation Care service-level options: The HPE Foundation Care options noted in the following are product dependent. HPE will provide the hardware support features for covered hardware products and the software support features for covered software products.

Hardware support coverage windows and response times will apply to covered hardware products, and software support coverage windows and response times will apply to covered software products.

All coverage windows are subject to local availability. Product eligibility may vary. Contact a local HPE sales office for detailed information on service availability and product eligibility.

Regardless of your coverage window, incidents with covered hardware or software can be reported to HPE via telephone or web portal, as locally available, or as an automated equipment reporting event via the HPE electronic remote support solution 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For products covered by Foundation Care, HPE offers three distinct service levels:
• HPE Foundation Care NBD Service
• HPE Foundation Care 24x7 Service
• HPE Foundation Care CTR Service

HPE Foundation Care Service is composed of comprehensive hardware and software services aimed to help increase the availability of your IT infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technical resources provide support and work with your IT team to help you resolve hardware and software problems with HPE and selected third-party products.

For hardware products covered by HPE Foundation Care, the service includes remote diagnosis and support, as well as on-site hardware repair if it is required to resolve an issue. For eligible HPE hardware products, this service may also include Basic Software Support and Collaborative Call Management for selected non-HPE software.

Contact HPE for more information and determination regarding which eligible software products may be included as part of your hardware product coverage. For software products covered by HPE Foundation Care, HPE provides remote technical support and access to software updates and patches.

HPE SAN Deployment Service provides installation and configuration of your storage area network (SAN). Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers three service levels based on the size and complexity of your SAN environment.

HPE SAN Deployment Service covers a comprehensive complement of technologies, including Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), FICON (Fibre Channel for HPE XP Storage Array-based mainframe storage), and iSCSI or serial-attached SCSI (SAS), for switches and associated devices. This service implements a new single-fabric or dual-fabric SAN or extends an existing SAN but does not include configuration of arrays or storage devices that are covered by their own corresponding deployment services.