Solution brief

Hyperconverged platform HPE Hyper Converged 250 Systems Highly efficient general-purpose virtualization platform is easy Why choose HPE Hyper Converged Systems? • Worldwide hardware and support to use and hybrid cloud-ready. Factory-integrated, this scalable, • Unified management experience reduces OPEX modular appliance includes everything you need to converge • Can be managed remotely from a single, familiar management console your IT—and can be production-ready in a matter of hours. • Non-disruptive automated scaling • Built-in data protection features and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities • Fast time to adoption using familiar ® or VMware® software components

Now is the time to transform Say “yes” to hyperconverged

To keep pace with new (and growing) With up to four powerful, individually-serviceable competitive pressures, your organization servers in a single 2U chassis, you can choose needs to transform to the New Idea Economy. the best configuration to suit your workload. Doing so requires your IT to address current Proven HPE ProLiant and StoreVirtual needs while preparing for future requirements, technologies are combined into the HPE Hyper coupled with the added demands for containing Converged Systems to deliver performance, costs and addressing increasing security density, and efficiency for scale-out workloads concerns. and on-premise cloud.

A proven way to address all of these challenges With this flexible, hyperconverged, and all at once is hyperconverged—where compute cloud-ready system, you can deploy an and storage are natively integrated into a single infrastructure that enables you to increase -based appliance that can be deployed in your bottom-line and reduce operating scale-out clusters. expenses by: • Rapidly developing and delivering new services The HPE Hyper Converged 250 family offer an all-in-one system that is the ideal choice • Creating new revenue streams and tapping for transforming your traditional IT to a future into new markets infrastructure—and capitalizing on the New • Eliminating infrastructure and management Idea Economy. complexity • Increasing overall efficiencies • Enabling IT generalists to manage the system Solution brief

One system, many uses integrated management experience, made HPE Helion CloudSystem 9 built on the possible by HPE OneView for Microsoft System HC 250 for VMware vSphere delivers a As your business continues to grow and evolve, Center or VMware vCenter. starter cloud solution that combines the you need an IT environment that can support efficiency and agility of , a diverse set of application workloads, while With integrated management consoles, you coupled with the enhanced control and delivering greater performance, capacity, and benefit from: customization provided by virtualization. cost efficiency. The HPE Hyper Converged • A single pane of glass for day-to-day System for Microsoft or VMware meets all these management tasks across physical, virtual, * Services for the New Idea needs and more. Choose a 2 , 3, or 4-node for and cloud environments compute-intensive applications like Microsoft Economy SQL and Oracle and for capacity-demanding • Manage multiple HC250 Systems from one applications like client virtualization with Citrix® centralized management console With HPE’s worldwide services team and XenDesktop® or VMware Horizon. These extensive channel network, you can select the • management integrated storage right-fit service and support options for both self-contained, modular building blocks are provisioning and control designed to help you easily change workloads your hyperconverged appliance and software. and accommodate new business opportunities With HPE OneView management plugins, • HPE Foundation Care provides hardware and as they emerge. your administrators can monitor the compute, software support, enabling faster resolution storage, and network components using of problems on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Built-in resiliency centralized dashboards. These dashboards products. provide a granular view on infrastructure health, • HPE Proactive Care helps prevent issues Protect your business with inherent data and alert you to take corrective actions. You and get you to our best experts when there protection features and disaster recovery also gain the flexibility to provision and manage is an issue. capabilities. HPE Hyper Converged Systems virtual resources to meet business needs, provide transparent virtual machine failover including expanding volumes for more capacity. • HPE Proactive Care Advanced assigns a local across nodes, systems, and sites, offering you expert for personalized technical collaboration. HPE OneView InstantOn start-up and expansion worry-free protection in the event of a failure. • HPE Hyperconverged Installation and Startup wizard enables you to accelerate deployment and Service provides planning, service deployment, expansion of your hyperconverged environment. Disaster recovery is equally easy with installation verification testing, and an storage-based snapshots and Remote orientation session. Copy integration. Extending your business Preparing for hybrid cloud continuity capabilities in the cloud is fast and Hyperconverged appliances from easy with add-on Azure services, including When the time is right for your organization to Hewlett Packard Enterprise deliver increased cloud-based backup and disaster recovery. transform to a cloud environment, HPE Hyper business agility plus worldwide services and Converged Systems include everything you support to help you deploy the applications Delivering a unified need to get started. your users require. management experience With Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard software pre-configured with the HC 250 for Ready to transform? A critical component in any hyperconverged Microsoft, you benefit from: system is management. And with HPE Hyper Call your Hewlett Packard Enterprise Converged Systems, you benefit from a truly • Azure-consistent cloud in a box with representative or trusted channel partner today Azure-connected services like Azure to find out how HPE Hyper Converged Systems * Start with 3 or 4 nodes for the HPE Hyper Converged 250 for Microsoft. Backup, Site Recovery and Operation can help you transform to a future infrastructure Management Suite. and capitalize on the New Idea Economy. • Familiar and consistent end-user experience through the Windows® Azure Pack. Learn more at hpe.com/info/hyperconverged

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