Step into the future with an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution that’s optimized for your edge, VDI and general virtualization workloads.  Do you need a dense platform with built-in security and flexibility that addresses key applications which need performance, availability along with ease of management?

HPE SimpliVity 325 provides HCI choice with our 3rd Generation  AMD EPYC™ single CPU processor platform including all-flash storage. Highly dense, the solution is a 1U enclosure that scales in 1U increments and is ideal for remote office or space-constrained locations. Each appliance has one node per 1U chassis and provides customers with the full software capabilities of HPE SimpliVity – guaranteed data efficiency, built-in data protection, and global virtual machine (VM)-centric management and mobility.

Part of the world’s most secure industry-standard server portfolio, the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 and Gen10 Plus v2 servers [1] along with the latest AMD EPYC processors, bring together the latest innovations in security and performance.

What’s new

• Now available with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor family.
• Extra small (4.6 TB), small (7.5 TB) and new medium (10 TB) software-optimized HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 options.
• HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity now introduces Subscription and Notification for Heartbeat along with HPE InfoSight Streaming wellness for HPE SimpliVity.
• Supports VMware vSphere® 6.7 and 7.0 with NSX-T for VM traffic.
• Add clusters of HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2 to expand existing federations of HPE SimpliVity 325, HPE SimpliVity 380 and HPE SimpliVity 2600.
• Supports backup to external storage using HPE Cloud Bank Storage, HPE StoreOnce Data Immutability, Maintenance Mode Enhancements and  Firmware Updates decoupling.

Features

Complete Hyperconvergence in a Fully Integrated System

• The HPE SimpliVity 325 combines x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a single hyper converged system with advanced functionality.
• HPE SimpliVity 325 simplifies management and delivers outstanding cost efficiency and agility.
• HPE SimpliVity 325  provides increased visibility and control with unified management.
• It delivers rapid deployment so you can respond to business needs faster.
• It unifies VMs and infrastructure tasks to reduce sprawl and overprovisioning.

Peak and Predictable Performance

• The all-flash solution provides predictable and linear performance at near wire speeds with reduced latency.
• Software-optimized inline deduplication, compression, and optimization helps minimize I/O and network traffic, improving performance while delivering great storage and bandwidth efficiency.
• HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity enables predictive data analytics by providing details at the federation, cluster, and host level for historic capacity utilization, trends, resource consumption, and prediction. Alleviates support issues, reduces operational expenses with alerts and case creation.
• Support for VMware vSphere® 6.7 / 7.0 hypervisor

Enhanced Economics and TCO

• Single AMD EPYC processors allow a 50% reduction in socket-based hypervisor licensing costs.
• Supports up to 2 TB of memory and up to 64 cores in a 1U hyperconverged appliance.
• It drastically reduces the need to purchase multiple discrete components, optimizes storage capacity with guaranteed 10:1 data efficiency [2], and prevents over-provisioning for performance and capacity with on?demand cluster expansion.

Advanced Data Services

• The HPE SimpliVity 325 delivers software-optimized, always-on deduplication and compression to significantly reduce capacity utilization.
• It provides built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery for data protection.
• It offers policy-based, VM-centric management to streamline operations.
• HPE SimpliVity RapidDR is a DR orchestration tool for HPE SimpliVity platforms to simplify and accelerate offsite DR for rapid recovery of applications.

[1] Based on external firm conducting cybersecurity penetration testing of a range of server products from a range of manufacturers, May 2017.[2] https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/simplivity-guarantee.html

Trademark information

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