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HPE TecHub EMEA Technical Bulletin
Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA
January 2017
HPE TecHub EMEA Technical Bulletin Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA
Contents
Enterprise Group News
HPE Servers 4
HPE Storage 6
Alliance Partner News 8
Frequently Asked Questions
HPE Servers 12
HPE Storage 13
HPE Networking 14
About HPE TecHub EMEA 16
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Enterprise Group News
HPE Servers HPE Apollo 4500 Series Editors Choice
The HPE Apollo 4500 Series is a
remarkable platform geared specifically
to popular large-scale software
development projects, including the likes
of Cloudera, Scality and Ceph. At its
core, the Apollo 4500 mixes the benefits
of JBOD storage with local compute
resources. What makes the 4500 Series
unique, though, is while other vendors
might position a single server with vast
storage resources or an HA JBOD with
two servers, HPE covers that swath and
takes it a step further with the 4510 (one
node), 4520 (two nodes) and 4530 (three
nodes) models. This offers exactly what the object storage guys want depending on how they
configure their platforms. This unique design comes down to the object-store replica demand,
where users build around the need of one, two or three replicas when chosing their level of
storage resiliency. Learn more HPE and SGI Receive Six Prestigious HPCwire Awards for HPC Innovation
HPE and the newly acquired SGI are joining forces to tackle some of the world’s largest
challenges, while conserving time, money, and valuable IT resources. By combining HPE’s best-
in-class HPC solutions and SGI’s in-memory, high-performance data analytics capabilities,
customers have access to one of the industry’s most comprehensive solution portfolios. Those who successfully adopt and deploy these cutting-edge technologies will have the ability to derive value from vast quantities of data, streamline business operations, and ensure a competitive
edge.
Based on these achievements, HPE and SGI were recently recognized in the annual HPCwire
Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the annual supercomputing conference (SC16) in Salt Lake City. These prestigious awards are given to technology companies who demonstrate exceptional performance in HPC, networking, storage, data analysis, and other business-critical sectors, and prove to be digital disruptors in their fields. Read More
Synergy for Dummies
New gated HPE Synergy for Dummies Guide is available! It will
be prominently featured in the new look Synergy Web page that
will go live at Discover along with new experience, new content
and announcements.
Important: we have Composable for Dummies guide (available
for a few months now) and newly released Synergy for
Dummies, please make a distinction between the two.
Composable for Dummies talks about Composable
Infrastructure concept and doesn’t even specifically mention
HPE Synergy. Download
Virtual desktop infrastructure with HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen9 Server and VMware vSphere
Following the high intrests in the VDI solution capabilties of the DL120 during Discover in London
we have created a solution brief available to customers and partners on VDI capabilties of the
DL120
TD&T achieves solid returns with HPE ProLiant ML350 servers With 10 offices across central and southeastern Iowa, TD&T CPAs and Advisors needed a reliable infrastructure to help ensure smooth business operations—without requiring onsite intervention. The firm’s limited IT staff needed to be able to centrally manage server tasks, while also ensuring continuity of critical data and applications. By deploying HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9 servers, TD&T gained a rock-solid platform that was easy to manage, secure, and maintain. Plus, HPE server management tools streamlined processes for the busy firm, giving IT more time to focus on key initiatives. “As a financial institution, we’re really concerned about security,” says Ian Hougland, the firm’s IT manager. “We have lots of confidential information to protect, so we spend a lot of time making sure each server is up to date. We also make sure to check the backups at each office, for added protection.” Read more
Discover London 2016
Did not attend? No problem! You will be able to view Discover sessions live and on demand.
HPE Storage
HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Gartner Midrange General Purpose Critical Capabilities HPE 3PAR StoreServ achieved the highest score in all use cases in Gartner’s Midrange General Purpose Critical Capabilities report. The use cases include: Consolidation, OLTP, Server Virtualization and VDI, Analytics, and Cloud. Read the whole report here.
CRN’s Top 10 Coolest Flash Storage & SSD Products of 2016 features 3PAR Flash Now CRN sites 3PAR Flash Now’s ability to make flash affordable to customers as one of the reasons why it landed in their Top 10 Coolest Flash Storage Products of 2016. Find out what other products made the list here.
HPE server and storage infrastructure improve SQL Server business outcomes
Demartek recently evaluated a SQL Server 2016 data warehousing environment with HPE 3PAR
StoreServ 8450 All-Flash and DL380 Gen9 Server using HPE StoreFabric Fibre Channel Host
Bus Adapters and HPE StoreFabric B-series SN6600B Fibre Channel Switch (32GFC).
Demartek concluded that this combination of infrastructure dramatically improves SQL data
warehousing application performance and alleviates network bottlenecks.
SOCAN extends its leadership in music-rights management With roots that trace back to the 1920s, SOCAN’s vision is to be a global leader in music rights
for today’s digital age. Trevor Jackson intended to refresh his primary storage in 2015 but
changed plans after seeing the HPE 3PAR StoreServ platform in action at an HPE Discover
event. Read the case study.
Storage + VDI: the results speak for themselves at Nuance Communications HPE 3PAR StoreServ All-flash helps Nuance Communications build the right storage solution for
a demanding high-performance computing environment that supports researchers who work to
constantly improve the language model in 40 different languages. The massive undertaking
involves processing over 1.2TB of data each day. Read the white paper today.
Orion New Zealand adopts powerful storage solution for electricity Orion’s multi-site storage architecture solution was aging and nearing lifecycle end of life. HPE
Technology Services helped manage, design, and implement an HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE
5900 switch solution as the underlying infrastructure for Orion’s VMware metro cluster. Read the
case study today.
3PAR Thursday on Around the Storage Block blog Each Thursday, 3PAR team members highlight 3PAR news and announcements as part of our
3PAR Thursday blog series. 3PAR Thursday is featured on Around the Storage Block blog, an
HPE blog dedicated to HPE Storage. In case you missed it, here are the posts from the past
month:
From Performance to TCO: the Driving Forces Behind the All-Flash Data Center
3PAR Flash-Integrated Data Protection: Reducing Risk in the All-Flash Data Center
HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage: What a Relief. No Conflicting Opinions Here.
HPE StoreFabric Gen6 32Gb Fibre Channel: An Early Data Storage Christmas Gift
Two IT Industry Superheroes Come Together to Protect Your Data and Applications
BURA NEWS
Adaptive Backup and Recovery Suite In addition to the Data Protector Capacity Based License (CBL) product structure, two new licenses are introduced called the Adaptive Backup and Recovery (ABR) Suite Premium Edition and the Adaptive Backup and Recovery (ABR) Suite Ultimate Edition.
ABR Suite Premium Edition includes the Data Protector Capacity Based License and Backup Navigator capacity based license.
ABR Suite Ultimate Edition includes the Data Protector Capacity Based License, Backup Navigator capacity based license and the Storage Optimizer license.
BURA Meter Blog: Clear skies with HPE Data Protector and cloud storage In this article, read from Ulrich Wallscheid (HPE EMEA IM Presales) deep-dive into the latest cloud integrations with Data Protector 9.08.
VM Explorer - NFR licenses Authorised Partners can now request VM Explorer NFR keys directly from the Partner Portal. From the HPE Partner Ready Portal for EMEA at the bottom click on “GO” and it will direct you to the partner eval portal, once you have logged in with your credentials you should look for the “Data Management” Product Center and then click on “Select” for the “Virtual Machine Explorer” product, fill out the form to get your order processed. If you require additional assistance with verifying your partner account you can contact HPE Software Partner Central [email protected]
Alliance Partners News
The Future of Fibre Channel
Technology is Today
Is Fibre Channel still the best infrastructure for data center storage?
Yes. Fibre Channel remains the de facto standard in networking infrastructure for mission-
critical storage in the data center.
Digital transformation is pushing mission-critical storage environments to the limit, with users
expecting data to be accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device. Faced with
exponential data growth, the network must evolve to enable businesses to thrive in this new era.
To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy
infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. Legacy
infrastructure, however, was not designed to support the performance requirements of evolving
workloads and flash-based storage technology.
What is Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel?
Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel delivers integrated network sensors, industry-leading 32/128
Gbps performance, and increased business agility to accelerate data access, adapt to evolving
requirements, and drive always-on business operations. The Brocade X6 Director with Brocade
Fabric Vision technology and IO Insight delivers data center-proven availability, breakthrough
performance, and seamless scalability to ensure greater consistency, predictability, and
performance.
What are Brocade X6 Directors?
Brocade X6 Directors are the industry’s most reliable, scalable, and high-performance storage
networking infrastructure designed to meet relentless growth, mission-critical application
demands, and flash-based storage technology. The Brocade X6 Director with Brocade Fabric
Vision™ technology combines innovative hardware, software, and integrated network sensors to
ensure the industry’s highest level of operational stability while redefining application
performance. It provides a modular building block for increased scalability to accommodate
growth for large-scale enterprise infrastructures.
Will the Brocade X6 Director seamlessly support Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)?
To realize the full benefits of flash, organizations will need to transition their high-performance,
latency-sensitive workloads to flash-based storage with NVMe. The simplicity and efficiency of
NVMe over Fibre Channel enable significant performance gains for flash storage. Moreover,
NVMe over Fabrics enables users to achieve faster application response times and harness the
performance of hundreds of solid state drives for better scalability across virtual data centers with
flash.
Organizations can seamlessly integrate Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel networks with next-
generation NVMe over Fabrics without a disruptive rip and replace. Leveraging the efficiency of
NVMe over Fibre Channel, combined with the high performance and low latency of Brocade Gen
6 Fibre Channel, organizations can accelerate IOPS to deliver the performance, application
response time, and scalability needed for next-generation data centers.
What distinguishes Brocade X6 Directors from Brocade DCX® 8510 Backbones?
The Brocade X6 Director is available in two modular form factors, 14U and 8U. Built for large
enterprise networks, the 14U Brocade X6-8 has eight vertical blade slots to provide up to 384
32Gb FC device ports and 32 additional 128Gb Brocade UltraScale ICL ports. The 8U Brocade
X6-4, built for midsize networks, has four horizontal blade slots to provide up to 192 32Gb Fibre
Channel device ports and 16 additional 128Gb UltraScale ICL ports. Each blade slot can be
populated with two optional blades.
For device connectivity, the Brocade FC32-48 FC device port blade provides 48 32Gb FC ports.
To support disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions over long distances, the
Brocade SX6 Extension Blade provides 16 32Gb FC ports, 16 1/10 GbE ports, and 2 40 GbE
ports for FC and IP replication traffic. The Brocade X6 family supports 4, 8, 10, 16, and 32Gb FC;
FICON; and 1, 10, and 40 GbE.
What value does 32 Gbps port speed provide when I currently have sufficient bandwidth at 8/16 Gbps?
Legacy infrastructure was not designed to support today’s dynamic and growing business
demands and requirements for evolving workloads and flash-based storage technology. An aging
network will impede the performance of an all-flash data center.
Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions with unmatched 32/128 Gbps performance are ideally designed to
enable these applications and unlock the full capabilities of flash. However, the true value of Gen
6 Fibre Channel extends beyond performance and higher throughput. Higher reliability and
innovative integrated technologies—such as IO Insight, Virtual Machine ID (VMID), Brocade Inter-Chassis Links (ICL connectivity), and Fabric Vision technology—dramatically simplify
end-to-end management of large-scale environments and drive down operational costs.
Gen 6 Fibre Channel with Fabric Vision technology delivers powerful monitoring, management,
and diagnostic tools to improve operational stability and dramatically reduce costs. Fabric Vision
technology now includes IO Insight, which provides organizations with deeper visibility into the
performance of their environments. This enhanced visibility enables organizations to easily
identify degraded application performance at the host and storage tiers. As a result,
administrators can quickly identify issues, avoid problems, and meet SLA objectives.
Enterprise Group
Frequently Asked Questions
HPE Servers
Can the c7000 Power Input Modules be changed in the field? Yes. If a customer’s requirements change between single phase, 3-phase, or DC, they can order the spare parts to change the Power Input Module. Information on the parts that need to be ordered and the command to change the Input Module Type in the Onboard Administrators can be found in this SAW article. Once the correct part number has been identified, it can be order from the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Parts Store at www.parts.hpe.com. If the customer would like for HPE Services to perform the replacement, contact your local services team and confirm that they can do this using the Installation of ProLiant Add On Options Service SKU UH745E.
Are any of the tape blades compatible with the Gen9 server blades? No, tape blade support ended with the Gen8 blades. If a customer requires local tape in their blade enclosure, a Gen8 server blade and tape blade combination can be used in an enclosure with Gen9 server blades. The HPE Synergy 40Gb F8 Switch Module allows to split a 40Gb port with an splitter cable into 4x 8Gb FC via a cable. Is this also possible on the current Virtual Connect Flexfabric 20/40 modules in the C7000 enclosures? No, unfortunately the VC 20/40 does not support the 4x8Gb FC splitter cable. Indeed, only the SFP+ ports can be used for FC channel connectivity while the QSFP+ ports are only for Ethernet connectivity.
What is the main difference between FDR and QDR switches/adapter? The difference between both technologies is the speed, FDR switches run at 56Gb/s while QDR runs at 32Gb/s. nowadays you can also find in the HPE portfolio EDR switches/adapters which supports 100Gb/s. The InfiniBand Roadmap – Charting Speeds for Future Needs shows the different InfiniBand speeds available today and those that will come in the future.
What happens in case of a power failure and the server has the H240/H240ar Adapter? The H240 or H240ar do not have battery backed write cache, for this reason it is not possible to enable Write-back caching, therefore, there is no need to back up anything since all data is moved directly to the drives. Since no cache is attached to the controller the performance should be lower than with battery backed cache controllers with Write-back caching enabled.
Is it possible to use 512e hard drives with VMware? Yes, VMware recently introduced support for his type of drives in vSphere 6.5, however they are not supported with VMware vSphere 6.0 or earlier version.
What downgrades are available for Windows Server 2016? Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter Edition Base Licenses will include the downgrade kit to Windows Server 2012 R2, same edition. This allows customers to buy Windows Server 2016 now, run Windows Server 2012 R2 now, and migrate to Windows Server 2016 when they are ready. Other downgrade options are also available for HPE customers at the HPE fulfillment website for Windows Server Media and Downgrade. Proof of purchase is required. Downgrade media and keys are delivered via email.
HPE Storage To use Remote Copy with StoreVirtual 3200 do you need to license both the source and target system? Yes, Remote Copy requires that both the source and the target system is licensed with Remote Copy license (included in the Advanced Data Services Suite).
Is it possible to replicate data from older StoreVirtual 4530 to StoreVirtual 3200? Yes, a one-time migration of data from StoreVirtual 4000 systems to StoreVirtual 3200 is supported. You will need the Migration Manager license and in conjunction with the StoreVirtual Migration Manager tool you can migrate data from any StoreVirtual 4000 series systems including StoreVirtual VSA to StoreVirtual 3200. For more information please see the StoreVirtual
3200 Quickspecs.
When adding an additional virtual disk group into a virtual pool in an MSA 2040 do we need to issue any commands to restripe data across the new drives? No. The re-balancing happens automatically; no user interaction is required. Can you present a volume from a MSA 2040 SAS to a VM running on Hyper-V directly (pass-through)? We want to avoid formatting it in VHDX. Do we need to switch to iSCSI or FC arrays to achieve that? We do not have any restriction in this regard; you can either format the volumes in VHDX or present it to the VMs as pass-through disks. This is possible regardless of the interface type (SAS, iSCSI or FC). We are running StoreVirtual 3200 with LeftHand OS 13.1. The option to change the frame size is grayed out in the management console. Is there a way to change the frame size at all? No, not today. Due to an issue with setting the frame size in the SVMC, the feature is not available in the 13.1 release.
In a migration from EMC arrays, are there other multipathing solutions supported besides the native MPIO? Yes, there are different options. For example when the host OS is RHEL 6/7 then Veritas Dynamic Multipathing (VxDMP) is also an option (this under MDM minimal disruptive migration). However, the final decision will require more initial data to be evaluated, such as if host OS, migration type, host clustering and of course source/target array details. For supported configurations please check the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Online Import software support matrix, it can be found at SPOCK (SPOCK Home > Software > Array SW:3PAR) Can the optional Fibre Channel adapter, in the 3PAR 8000 systems, share connectivity to host as well as for Remote Copy links? The Fibre Channel adapter in 3PAR 8000 systems can be shared for connectivity to host and also for Remote Copy FC connectivity. Traffic to hosts and Remote copy links must be on separate ports. I need to replicate data across 15km using HPE B-series fibre channel switches, will the switch handle performance across this distance? Yes, the HPE B-series fibre channel switches are able to handle even longer distances without any trouble. The performance of the link will depend on various factors but one that is directly related to the switch and that must also be ordered is the Extended Fabric license. The Extended Fabrics license enables more buffer credits to be allocated when the distances are longer than 10km. The increase number of buffers will help to send data in a continuously manner and take full advantage of the link.
HPE Networking
Could I avoid limitation of using 5GHz band only for mesh links on IAP’s? Unfortunately, this restriction cannot be lifted. On dual-radio IAPs, the 2.4GHz radio is always used for client traffic, while the 5GHz radio is always used for mesh-backhaul.
Do we support CLNP/CLNS in our MSR product line? We confirm CLNP/CLNS are not supported on the HPE MSR router series. Would you be able to confirm if the 7500 switch will shut down automatically if we do not add the fan tray in time and the temperature reaches very high levels? We confirm there is no “shut down” action taken by the switch. It will only raise a warning if the module reach the specific threshold. Is the X121 1G SFP RJ45 Transceiver (J8177C) capable of 100Mb speed in SFP+ slot on 2930F (JL258A)? We confirm the J8177C transceiver doesn’t support 100Mb operations.
On 7500 Switch Series, can you confirm that in two-chassis IRF, when you use JH209A ports for IRF (from two different MPUs in the chassis), ports not used for IRF are still available on other MPUs than the Master MPU? We confirm all ports on JH209A MPUs are available, whether on Master MPU or on other MPUs. Does the 5930-32XG support 10G technology? The 5930 offers 32 ports 40GbE. These ports can be splitted in 4x10G. However, not all the 32 ports can be splitted. There are 24 ports to do the splitting. Only 40-GE interfaces FortyGigE 1/0/5 through FortyGigE 1/0/28 can be split into 10-GE interfaces.
About HPE TecHub EMEA
About HPE TecHub EMEA
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