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Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin

Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA

September 2016

HPE Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA

Contents

Enterprise Group News

HPE Servers 4

HPE Storage 5

HPE Networking 7

Alliance Partner News 8

Frequently Asked Questions

HPE Servers 11

HPE Storage 12

HPE Networking 14

About HPE Office Based Presales EMEA 16

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Enterprise Group News

HPE Servers IDC: HPE Synergy: Composable I-structure for the Enterprise IDC recognizes HPE Synergy as “the first instantiation in a new class of Infrastructure”, stating that as such, Synergy serves both types of apps - with infrastructure resiliency requirements and for apps that don't assume infrastructure resiliency. “For the foreseeable future, IDC expects systems vendors like HPE to dominate this space — primarily because of their decades of collective experience in building enterprise infrastructure platforms.” Learn more

MC990 X TDI for SAP HANA Scale-up Configuration Broadwell offering based on MC990 X TDI Solution for SAP HANA Scale-Up configuration. Optimized for 8-socket price/performance, the system supports up to 4TB of main memory for analytical HANA loads and a maximum of 8TB for SoH. hpe.com product page

QuickSpecs

HPE Solutions for Docker

HPE will offer pre-configured HPE server platforms ready for Docker containers. These pre-tested server models, including HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo, and HPE CloudLine, will be delivered ready for container environments, resulting in simplified and repeatable deployment, improved performance and greater flexibility for customers. Visit the HPE | DOCKER Alliance HPE iLO Licensing Guide 2nd edition of our customer/partner facing HPE iLO licensing guide and its associated single topic documents are now available. Selecting the right iLO license - iLO Features and Supported Servers - iLO Licensing FAQ The document(s) will provide the following: 1) Guidance on selecting the right iLO license to buy 2) iLO Features and Supported Servers 3) Installation Instructions – License Key(s) 4) Registration Process 5) Support and Services

NEW Linux best practices using Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and Software Delivery

Repository (SDR) technical white paper Technical White Paper

NEW HPE Reference Architecture for Cloudera Enterprise 5.7 with HPE Apollo 2000 and

HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9 servers

HPE Storage Smart SAN video and blog Learn more about this unique 3PAR technology in this video that describes how it simplifies SAN configuration and automates SAN zoning. Also, read the Gil Chacon’s blog post.

Infrastructure-aware flash takes all-flash on step further

In this new video from Storage Switzerland, 3PAR product manager Phill Gilbert discusses the

importance of surrounding your customer’s all-flash investment with other capabilities, such as

virtualization, to achieve maximum ROI.

New 3PAR StoreServ 20800 with Oracle RAC stretched cluster technical brief

This new technical brief describes the deployment of an Oracle RAC 12c and HPE 3PAR Peer

Persistence Reference Architecture to provide customers with a highly available RAC Extended

Distance or stretched cluster.

Non Volatile Memory express (NVMe): the next big thing

If you’ve heard the term NVMe and wondered what it’s all about, you’ve come to the right place.

In the latest Around the Storage Block Blog, titled “NVMe and the Need for Ludicrous Speed”, we

present a slightly humorous approach to NVMe technology. Also check out HPEStorageGuy’s

podcast “What is NVMe”, and the latest Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) 2016 Fibre

Solutions Guide—a series of very short articles on FC and NVMe.

Gartner’s point of view on the Future of Storage Protocols…

Read this new Gartner report that reviews the most common data center storage networking protocols and recommendations for implementing a successful storage network.

Entry storage news:

Business continuity starts with Network RAID

StoreVirtual technology helps customers achieve five-9’s (99.999%) availability with storage

clustering and built-in Network RAID that stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a

cluster of nodes. Read the Around the Storage Block blog, and learn about Network RAID from

an HPE storage expert in this 3-minute video.

StoreEasy videos on YouTube

Check out StoreEasy Showcased—a new video series highlighting HPE StoreEasy capabilities

File Classification Infrastructure: See how users and content owners can classify file

data and folders based on their business value, as well as automate classification based

on content.

File Management Tasks: Get an overview of how IT admins can apply lifecycle

management policies to file shares

Dynamic Access Control: Building on File Classification Infrastructure, learn how to

classify files based on their business value and overcome increased challenges around

cyber security.

File Replication: Learn more about this resiliency feature that enables automatic and

effortless failovers for disaster tolerance.

Work Folders: See how Work Folders provide a consistent way to access work-related

files from anywhere.

BURA news:

*NEW Video* 1+1 = 3 when you integrate 3PAR + StoreOnce with RMC

RMC integrates the world’s most robust flash-optimized primary storage system and the world’s fastest, most scalable, and highly available backup system to deliver the end-to- end availability and backup that your applications demand. Watch this latest YouTube video to find out more.

*NEW Demo* RMC v3.0 Install Wizard RMC is software that integrates storage like HPE 3PAR and StoreOnce backup systems to

provide a converged data protection. Watch this short installation demo, which uses the wizard

available with RMC v3.0 (ahead of its official availability at the end of this month), to see how easy it is to deploy.

StoreOnce Plug-in for Oracle RMAN This new offering integrates HPE StoreOnce with Oracle RMAN through HPE StoreOnce Catalyst (a backup-optimized, high-performance protocol). Learn more about these Oracle data protection solutions using the assets below:

Recovery Manager Central for Oracle Solution Brief

Oracle backup and recovery using the HPE StoreOnce Plug-in for Oracle Reference Architecture

DCIG analyst whitepaper Read this 2 page analyst whitepaper written by DCIG, which explores the five essential building blocks to deliver centralized, simplified, enterprise Data Protection, using HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE StoreOnce and HPE Recovery Manager Central. This is a must-read for anyone wanting to consolidate and simplify their enterprise Data Protection strategy.

Data Protection Power for Your Apps with 3PAR and StoreOnce HPE RMC 3.0 expands the RMC ecosystem to include Oracle Databases and 3PAR File Persona. Learn everything you need to know about RMC in under 20 minutes with these great resources.

Flash Changes Everything When it comes to Data Protection Read the new HPE RMC blog, “Flash Changes Everything When it Comes to Data Protection” which discusses what flash going mainstream means for application availability and data protection.

Protecting Workloads at the Speed of Flash with HPE RMC A new HPE RMC Blog, “Protecting Workloads at the Speed of Flash with HPE RMC,” takes a closer look at how RMC 3.0 protects workloads at the speed of flash and the value this provides to the new flash generation.

Protecting HPE’s Storage Products Intellectual Capital Learn more about entitlement validation for HPE StoreEver customers and the steps you need to know to ensure your customer’s products are protected from November 2016 onwards. If you would like to forward the customer announcement to appropriate accounts, please download a copy from the Partner Portal.

HPE Networking

News blogs and updates

Blog (Dom Wilde): Virtualization Triple Play: VMware NSXv/ESXi Certifications for HPE Network, Cloud & IoT Solutions

HPE FlexFabric entry on VMware certification page

Technical Solution Brief: HPE-VMware Networking Solution

Solution Brief: Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions and services for VMware NSX

HPE Data Center Networking Page

HPE-VMware Alliance Page

Reference Architecture Guide: HPE Cloud-First Reference Architecture Guide- single DC DCN deployment for SDN

Alliance Partners News

HPE StoreFabric SN4000B Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data traffic between data centers and the changes driven by virtualized application workloads. Faced with this challenge, coupled with rising Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and recovery expectations, enterprise data centers need their disaster recovery plans to enable fast, continuous, and easy access to mission-critical data from anywhere in the world. The HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch with Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers. The HPE SN4000B is a purpose-built data center extension solution that maximizes performance and scalability for large, complex environments, allowing IT organizations to future-proof their storage extension infrastructure by adding more throughput capacity as their needs grow.

High Performance The HPE SN4000B moves more data faster and further with 16Gb Fibre Channel and 40GbE ports, available with the HPE StoreFabric SN4000B WAN Rate Upgrade license. The HPE SN4000B advanced performance and network optimization enable replication and backup applications to send more data over metro and WAN links in less time and to optimize available WAN bandwidth. The HPE SN4000B offers Twenty-four 16Gbps Fibre Channel ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40GbE ports provide the bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN links.

Scalable and Flexible SAN Extension The HPE SN4000B leverages cost effective IP WAN transport to extend open systems and mainframe disk and tape storage applications over distances that would typically be impractical. The HPE SN4000B provides flexibility and investment protection to add advanced extension, FICON, and SAN fabric services for evolving virtual server requirements.

Simplified Disaster Recovery and Data Protection The HPE SN4000B supports simple point-to-point or comprehensive multisite SAN extension for a variety of strategic IT initiatives. The HPE SN4000B centralizes backup to consolidate infrastructure and administrative resources. The HPE SN4000B includes Built-in tools to validate conditions of the WAN links, network paths, and proper setup of FCIP configurations prior to deployment.

Integrated Architecture and Management The HPE SN4000B utilizes the same Fabric OS that supports the entire B-Series product family to ensure interoperability. The HPE SN4000B Leverages existing and familiar B-Series management tools, including SAN Network Advisor, Web Tools, and the command line interface to simplify deployment and administration.

For further details on how to configure and order, please see here

StoreFront Remote Are you constantly on-the-go and need simple and efficient tools for “anytime, anyplace” monitoring of your HP 3PAR, StoreOnce and StoreVirtual systems? With HPE StoreFront Remote, you can now securely monitor your HPE Storage arrays 24×7 from any location. StoreFront Remote (SFRM) is a Web portal that offers system health and other analytics in the cloud for your HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StoreOnce devices, in a secure and seamless manner. SFRM also enables proactive services to be delivered to customers. Customers can control the visibility of their devices in SFRM with an opt-in registration mechanism, and through administration privileges. The SFRM service is built on HPE’s Secure Service Architecture (SSA) which provides a secure communication path to send diagnostic and performance telemetry data from customers’ storage devices to HPE 3PAR Central Platform, which sits in a secure data center behind an HPE firewall. From presenting useful information such as capacity forecasts to storage efficiency ratios, the StoreFront Remote user interface provides valuable insights and offers user a simple dashboard similar to HPE 3PAR StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) and HPE OneView interfaces. You even have the ability to get customized reports in PDF format. SFR: Dashboard

SFRM requires two things—an active connection from a storage device to HPE 3PAR Central and customers’ approval to make the data available in the cloud through an explicit registration step. The data that is thus sent to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, hereby referred to as the “call home” telemetry data set, is always securely transmitted using the HTTPS protocol and this data forms the basis of the analytics and recommendations in SFRM. It’s important to note that by “telemetry data”, we refer only to the “system-support data” from the storage devices and not the actual “customer data” from the customers’ storage devices. The telemetry data sent to Hewlett Packard Enterprise is mandatory to facilitate remote technical support and other Proactive Services but it’s not mandatory for customers to sign up for SFRM, which is an opt-in based service. End-user data from a customers’ storage devices is never collected or transmitted outside their data center, and additional care is taken in SFRM to protect all personally identifiable information (PII) as well. How to get access:

1. Go to https://www.storefrontremote.com

2. Create an HPE Passport Account if you don’t have one already

3. Register your devices and create ‘System Groups’

4. Generate a token and paste it in a specified field in 3PAR Management Console

(SSMC/IMC) / StoreOnce Management Console or use a 3PAR CLI Command

5. Wait for 24-48 hours for the device to show up on the SF Remote portal

Specific for HPE Channel Partners: 1. Ensure your passport ID is setup as a ‘Partner’

2. Get your customers to add their systems in SF Remote and provide consent

3. Login to www.storefrontremote.com and get access to a system by providing the

Serial Number and Sales Order ID

For more information go to www.storefrontremote.com and check out the SFRM whitepaper.

Enterprise Group

Frequently Asked Questions

HPE Servers What is the maximum USB ports available in DL380 Gen 9? The DL380 Gen9 can have up to 7 USB ports (5 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0). This is possible when adding the Universal Media Bay, which adds the 2 USB 2.0, otherwise the maximum is 5 ports. Is it possible to get a health and inventory report by connecting to iLO with an smartphone via NFC to the system? No, HPE ProLiant servers Gen9 or previous Generations do not come with NFC chips.

With an Android smartphone the customer can use the HPE iLO mobile app for Android (or

for IOS) to access to that information. When using the VC FlexFabric 20/40 F8. What are the rules concerning 10, 20, 40Gbit connections? Are there limits? Can you activate all the maximum ports and capacity? The VC has a non-blocking architecture, meaning that all ports can provide their maximum bandwidth at the same time. The line rate (full duplex) of these module is 1.2Tb. Can HPE Oneview used to access to the remote consoles of servers managed that have an iLO Advanced license enabled? Is a OneView license required for it? Yes, you can refer to the HP OneView 2.0 Support Matrix to see which server models can be managed/monitored by HPE OneView and support launching the iLO remote console. An HPE OneView Advanced, needed for management, is not required for this feature since monitored devices also support that functionality, however HPE OneView is always recommended since it adds many other features. iLO advanced must be enabled, either with an iLO advanced license or with an HPE OneView advanced with iLO advanced license since the remote console after OS requires it. Can nodes in the Apollo 2000 enclosure removed without switching off the whole enclosure? Yes. The Apollo 2000 nodes are independent servers that shared some resources, like the power supplies of the fans. Therefore, the nodes can be shut down and remover without shutting down the other nodes. Refer to the HPE Apollo 2000 System Maintenance and Service Guide to procced with this process.

HPE Storage With 3PAR Persistent Ports configured on a 3PAR StoreServ20000 series array, in the event of a port failover, is the active port able to support an increased number of FC initiators over the hard limit of 256 per port? Yes, when 3PAR Persistent Ports are configured, in the event of a port failover, the active port will be able to support an increased number of initiators above its hard limit of 256 FC initiators per port until the connectivity with the failed port will be restored. However, in such scenarios it is generally recommended to configure a lower number than 256 FC initiators per port to avoid potential performance bottlenecks.

Is HPE 3PAR Express Writes supported on 3PAR StoreServ 8000 and 20000 series host ports? HPE 3PAR Express Writes represent a series of HP 3PAR OS protocol optimizations that optimize SCSI transactions, improving array CPU utilization and host-write latency. Currently HPE 3PAR Express Writes is not supported on 16Gb targets (all systems, including 3PAR StoreServ 7000c and 10000 series). In a XP7 3 Data Centers High-Availability solution, can the Continuous Access Journal target on the 3rd site be a P9500? No, all storage systems in an HA+Cnt Ac-J configuration must be XP7 with DKCMAIN firmware version 80-02-4-xx/xx or later. You cannot combine HA and Cnt Ac-J using other storage system models. Not all volume types can be used for HA Operations , to mention some , CA Synchronous , Auto LUN , DKA Encryption volumes ; for a detailed list of supported volumes for HA configurations please refer to page 44-45 of the XP7 High Availability User Guide.

On the licensing point of view , the XP7 array acting as a Continuous Access Journal target on the 3rd site needs to be licensed for Continuous Access Journal only by the CA Suite licenses as it is not participating in the HA setup.

As various OS as VMware 5.0 – 5.1, have reached or will reach their End-of-Support date from their respective vendors soon, will HPE keep supporting them in combination with 3PAR Arrays? 3PAR will continue to support interoperability with the OS versions below under the EXTENDED support policy: – IBM AIX 6.1 TL7 and 7.1 TL2 – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 and 11 SP2 – HP-UX 11i v2 – VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 For further interoperability details and a detailed explanation of what the Extended Support Policy implies, please refer to SPOCK.

Is it possible to copy data synchronously between two StoreVirtual 3200 systems? What license is needed? No, currently, data between two StoreVirtual 3200 systems can only be replicated asynchronously. To use Remote Copy the HPE StoreVirtual 3200 Advanced Data Services Suite LTU N9Y66A is required for both systems. I heard the MSA 2024 can only create snapshots every 30 minutes as a minimum, can you please confirm? With linear storage, there is a 30-minute minimum interval between remote snaps, correct. With virtual storage there is 60-minute minimum interval. That is a limitation given by the Remote Snap software. More information in the HPE MSA Remote Snap Software Technical White Paper In non-Remote Snap configurations you can create a snapshot every minute if you wish to do so (scheduled). If you manage to manually create more than one snapshot under a minute then even more is possible. For more information please see the HPE MSA SMU Guide

Are transceivers included with the new StoreVirtual 3200 4-port 16Gb FC system N9X24A? No, the SFPs need to be ordered separately. HPE StoreVirtual 3000 16Gb 2-pack Short Wave Fibre Channel SFP+ Transceiver is available under N9X02A. I’m trying to install StoreVirtual VSA using the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere installer which will not display a distributed virtual switch as an option. How can I proceed? The HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere Installer does not support distributed switches and will not display a distributed switch as an option. To resolve this issue, set up a standard switch before deploying a StoreVirtual VSA for vSphere. Select the standard switch while deploying the StoreVirtual VSA for vSphere installer. See HP LeftHand OS Version 12.5 Release Notes

Is there any controller performance or cache capacity difference between MSA 2040 and MSA 2042? No, there are no hardware differences between the two arrays. The difference between MSA 2040 and 2042 is in that the MSA 2042 comes with two 400GB SSDs included and the Advanced Data Services Suite (combining Remote Snap license, 512 snapshot license and Performance Tiering license) is also included. Can the 1Gb iSCSI ports of the SV3200 Fibre Channel storage array controllers be used for host I/O? No, these ports can only be used for Remote Copy and/or management traffic. This is the same for the 10Gb iSCSI controllers. It is written that the minimum number of drives supported within the SV3200 is four. How are these drives assigned to the array? Two drives will be configured as RAID 1 (displayed as RAID10) and assigned to a single controller. The SV3200 has a single ‘Pool’ which is comprised of capacity from both controllers. As per all StoreVirtual configurations, each participating ‘Node’ which in SV3200 terminology is a ‘Controller’, must have an equal configuration; therefore two per controller.

HPE Networking Can you confirm all 2930F models share the same port buffer cache size? The 8 port, 24 port and 48 port models have the same buffer cache size, 12.38 MB 4.5MB Ingress/7.875MB Egress. How may concurrent wireless session and concurrent wireless users supported by MSR 954 W wireless router? We support a maximum of 64 wireless clients for the MSR 954W routers. Can you confirm that all six 40G port in 5940 48SFP+ 6QSFP+ can be split into 4x 10G? All 5940 models equipped with 6QSFP+ ports can be split in 4x 10G connections. The only limitation is for the 5940 32QSPF+ ports model. 40-GE interfaces FortyGigE 1/0/1 through FortyGigE 1/0/4 and FortyGigE 1/0/29 through FortyGigE 1/0/32 on an HPE FlexFabric 5940 32QSFP+ Switch (JH396A) cannot be split into 10-GE breakout interfaces. Can you confirm that IEC/EN 61000-4-8 standard is achieved by our J9773A 2530 Series Switches? This Declaration of Conformity states compliance for EN 55024 standard. EN 55024 includes a normative reference to the IEC 61000-4-8 standard. By claiming conformity to EN 55024, we are declaring that the product complies with all of the Immunity standards that are referenced in the EN 55024 parent standard. Can you confirm support for VRRP on 2920 and 2930? At the moment there is no VRRP support on these series but 2930F will receive this feature in a future software release. Can you confirm the IP rating for the IAP 225 and IAP 325? We do not rate the Ingress Protection for our indoor AP. We only publish conformance to UL2043 for plenum rated equipment.

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