HP officially join the hyper-converged infrastructure market BY announcing Hyper-Converged Systems based on StoreVirtual VSA

HP unveiled the HP Converged System 200-HC StoreVirtual that offer ready-built integrated systems designed to make it easier for organizations to build and operate data centre infrastructure optimized for virtualized workloads. The Solution is based on HP ProLiant SL2500 series of scalable computing servers and the HP StoreVirtual VSA on 14th of October2014 at VMworld in Barcelona.  The CS 200-HC StoreVirtual features VMware vSphere 5, the HP StoreVirtual VSA, and HP OneView for management. The HP Converged System 200-HC StoreVirtual arrives pre-configured with servers, storage, networking and VMware vSphere to enable complete deployment of a virtualized environment in under 15 minutes.

Hewlett-Packard officially became the latest vendor to join the hyper-converged infrastructure market with the introduction of two new appliances, one based on its own software-defined storage stack and the other on VMware's upcoming EVO:Rail software stack.

The move comes in line with similar offerings like the VBlock platform from VCE, Cisco's Unified Computing System, and VMware's own EVO:RAIL platform, announced in August, all of which offer pre-built and configured appliances combining compute, storage and network hardware.

The first, the HP Converged System 200 HC StoreVirtual, combines an HP ProLiant server configured with four server nodes in a 2U chassis, the HP StoreVirtual VSA virtual storage appliance, HP OneView converged management, and integration with VMware vSphere.

The second, the HP ConvergedSystem 200 HC EVO:Rail, uses VMware's pre-integrated EVO:Rail, introduced at the August VMworld conference. The EVO:Rail stack includes VMware vSphere, the VMware VSAN (Virtual SAN) storage software, the newly renamed VMware vRealize Log Insight, and the EVO:Rail engine.

The main difference between the 2 solutions is that the HP ConvergedSystem 200 HC StoreVirtual expands hyper-converged infrastructure environments across HP 3Par and StoreVirtual environments, while EVO:Rail is for customers looking at a single software stack from VMware.

VMware EVO: RAIL combines VMware compute, networking, and storage resources into a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to create a simple, easy to deploy, all-in-one solution offered by our partners

The Solution Components comes as follows:

Proven HP ProLiant hardware	All HP software pre-installed and ready to go
A single 2U chassis containing four powerful, integrated servers Scale out storage, network and compute without complexity Systems cluster together up to 32 nodes, all managed from the same console	HP OneView InstantOn for quick start and cluster configuration HP OneView for VMware vCenter for daily provisioning and monitoring HP StoreVirtual data services for availability and performance

  The solution comes in 2 flavours:

1. HP ConvergedSystem 242-HC StoreVirtual, a hybrid, auto-tiering model with SAS and SSD capacity to serve performance and latency-sensitive workloads.
2. HP ConvergedSystem 240-HC StoreVirtual, an all-SAS model to meet larger capacity requirements at a lower cost.

 

CS 240-HC StoreVirtual System	CS 242-HC StoreVirtual System
4 nodes, each with 2 sockets, 8 cores each socket at 2.0Ghz 128GB of RAM each node 2 x 10GbE and 2 x 1GbE NICs per node 6 x 1.2TB SAS SFF drives per node	4 nodes, each with 2 sockets, 10 cores each socket at 2.8GHz 256GB of RAM each node 2 x 10GbE and 2 x 1GbE NICs per node 4 x 1.2TB SAS SFF drives per node 2 x 400GB SSDs per node

The HP ConvergedSystem 200 HC StoreVirtual takes the idea of software-defined data centers a step further by adding the management and VMware integration.

HP also pointed out that its StoreVirtual VSA platform supports autonomic storage tiering at the sub-volume level, as well as thin provisioning and space reclamation to provide capacity efficiency and lower storage costs. StoreVirtual VSA features Autonomic Optimization, this capability includes continuous workload monitoring and migration of frequently accessed data to high-performance storage disks such as solid-state drives (SSD), while inactive data is moved to less costly storage such as conventional spinning hard disks.  This allows for more often accessed blocks of data to be moved from SAS onto SSD and less used to be moved from SSD down to SAS yielding greater performance from the storage subsystem. 

StoreVirtual also provides a wide range of interoperability options for customers who have already invested in dedicated StoreVirtual 4000 hardware solutions or who have existing StoreVirtual VSA deployments.  Beyond native replication, HP StoreVirtual also includes Peer Motion capabilities to allow movement of data from one StoreVirtual environment to another for easy migration.

The new Converged System 200-HC StoreVirtual models will be available for purchase in December.  The Converged System 200-HC EVO:RAIL configuration will be available first quarter of 2015.

 

 

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