Services and Support

HPE Customer Support Technical Assistance Day Service provides you with the flexibility to customize tasks beyond the scope of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s standard technical services. Highly trained technical service specialists can assist you with a variety of operational, optimization, and assessment activities.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s approach is based on thorough analysis, planning, and rapid execution to help address the technical challenges you face. Using proven techniques and processes gained from extensive experience in many successful engagements for enterprise clients worldwide, our technical specialists help you reduce the cost, timeframe, and business risk typically associated with a broad range of technical, change management, and project management activities. The end result is a solution that will help you to meet your business needs.

HPE Customer Support Technical Assistance Day Service is available for all Hewlett Packard Enterprise supported products.

This service does not include installation and deployment-related activities, which are part of a separate service, HPE Installation & Deployment Assistance Day 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.

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. 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 below 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 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 Hardware Support Onsite Service provides remote assistance and onsite support for your covered hardware, helping you to improve product uptime.

You have the flexibility to choose between multiple service-level options featuring several onsite response or call-to-repair time and coverage window combinations in various durations to address your specific service needs.

Service-level options with call-to-repair times provide IT managers with support specialists who will quickly begin troubleshooting the system to help return the hardware to operating condition within a specified timeframe.

HPE StoreVirtual 3K File Controller Installation and Startup Service provides the necessary activities required to deploy the HPE StoreVirtual 3K File Controller into your storage environment.

With the assistance of your designated IT storage administrator and using Hewlett Packard Enterprise best practices, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise service specialist will help plan, design, and deploy your HPE StoreVirtual 3K File Controller. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise service specialist will also perform HPE installation verification tests and provide predelivery planning and a brief customer orientation session.