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Radically simple storage for the SDDC VMware vSAN ReadyNode from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Proven platform Run your VMware vSAN ReadyNode with Accelerate your journey to a software-defined, confidence, knowing that more customers run VMware vSphere on HPE ProLiant hyper- by deploying complete servers than any other platform. solutions with the prescribed size and quantity of CPU, Choice Select the optimum configuration memory, networking, I/O controller, HDD, and SSD—backed for handling your business-critical applications, client , disaster by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. recovery target, and test/development and staging workloads. The IT evolution continues We started with VMware® vSAN™—part of Reliability the VMware vSphere® platform. Then, we It’s your virtualized IT environment, and you want the best. Choose HPE ProLiant Remain in lock-step with the changes added the prescribed memory, networking, I/ servers—the platform world-renowned The IT evolution continues to gain velocity. O controller, hard disk drive (HDD), and solid- for reliability. While still a relatively new notion, the state drive (SSD)—all running on an HPE Support software-defined data center (SDDC) is ProLiant server. Choose from a comprehensive range of expected to have what it takes to handle HPE service and support options, tailored the monumental workloads of the idea The result is a portfolio of VMware vSAN to your unique needs. economy—with 44 zettabytes of information ReadyNode. These robust, innovative, and and 24 billion IP-connected devices estimated enterprise-grade hypervisor-converged by 2020.1 In large part, the SDDC will be infrastructure solutions are: adopted due to the cost, efficiency, and • Complete productivity gains it provides. • Easy to order as-is or for customization Standing at the forefront of software-defined • Fast to deploy technology are Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware®. Together, we are delivering • Simple to manage options to make the promise of the SDDC a • Less costly to run reality—today. Any true SDDC must include software-defined Your solution advantage storage, which leverages automation and templates to dramatically simplify When you choose a preconfigured and streamline storage provisioning and software-defined storage solution from management. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware, you benefit from: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware have been working together to develop a series of • A turnkey solution, fully tested and delivered turnkey, software-defined storage solutions on the leading server platform for VMware for a wide variety of use cases and workloads. vSphere—HPE ProLiant

1 TechSpot article, “The road to 44 trillion gigabytes: Software-defined datacenters and seeding the cloud,” 11 August 2014 Solution brief

• VMware’s hypervisor-converged storage Single-source support What can a vSAN ReadyNode do? software, vSAN, delivering enterprise-class, Designed for specific workloads, VMware high-performance storage for virtualized To expedite deployment of a VMware vSAN vSAN ReadyNode from HPE support: applications, including business-critical apps ReadyNode on HPE, HPE Services can act as • Business-critical applications (for • A scale-out architecture that leverages HPE your single-source provider for service and example, Microsoft® Exchange, ProLiant x86 server technology and server- support. With HPE Services, you can harness Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle) side flash memory to drastically lower overall the unrealized potential of your HPE and • Virtual desktop infrastructure storage total cost of ownership (TCO) VMware environment. • Disaster recovery target • Management savings through Trust the experts at Hewlett Packard • Test/development and staging HPE OneView, which converges the Enterprise to help you with everything from management of servers, storage, and strategy and governance to technology, networking in both physical and virtual training, and process reengineering. Order now environments—from a single console ReadyNodes are available on the VMware Compatibility Guide. Under • The ability to granularly scale-up or “ReadyNode Vendors,” select scale-out your compute and storage Working together for you “Hewlett Packard Enterprise” to obtain environments the list of VMware vSAN ReadyNodes For more than 15 years, Hewlett Packard and corresponding HPE models. • A hypervisor-converged architecture that Enterprise and VMware have been delivering enables storage and compute to run in the the industry’s most complete portfolio of same physical host with minimal overhead; tightly integrated and jointly engineered with management made simple through the systems—spanning the desktop and device to seamless integration of VMware vSAN with the data center, the cloud, and beyond. the VMware vSphere® Web Client and VMware software stack When you choose a standards-based solution • Deployment choices: from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware, your business benefits from: – Several preconfigured and ready-to-go • Faster application deployment ReadyNode configurations available from Hewlett Packard Enterprise today • Greatly improved performance

––Hybrid and all-flash profiles for server and • Streamlined operations made possible VDI workloads through automation • The capability to build your own ReadyNode • An innovative IT infrastructure that’s easier using whichever hardware components you to manage and less costly to own prefer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. • A better user experience, giving users Access the Simple Configurator and follow the fast response time and continuous the steps outlined. For OEM: Choose availability they need to do their jobs “Hewlett Packard Enterprise,” select the model, and then follow “Next steps.”

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