What is new

• New 32-core controller node accelerating mission-critical apps with up to 2X performance boost.
• Support for up to two JBOF expansion shelves and incremental drive updates, enables customers to start small and scale big- from 3.84TB upgrades to over 1PB total system capacity- without disruption. With
• Support for iSCSI, customers now have the flexibility of choosing the front-end storage protocol that best fits their existing network infrastructure with support for Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NVMe-oF/FC.
• Transform from LUN-centric to AI-driven, app centric storage provisioning. No storage expertise required, and no more guesswork.
• Unified cloud management enables you to globally manage and monitor your entire fleet of block storage from a single SaaS-based cloud console that's accessible from any location, on any device.
• Designed for extreme availability requirements with 100% availability guaranteed as a standard benefit without requiring a special contract.
• Accelerate mission-critical apps with all-NVMe mission-critical storage delivering predictable high-performance, and ultra-low latency.
• Say goodbye to endless firefighting thanks to industry-leading AI Ops for infrastructure that drives autonomous operations and helps ensure your apps are always on and always fast.

Run any app - without compromise with a 100% data availability guarantee

• Get peace of mind with 100% data availability guaranteed: Built on an AI-driven, disaggregated, no single point of failure platform to guarantee resilient 100% data availability for your mission-critical apps.
• Advanced DR and HA: Meet any recovery-point objective (RPO) and recovery-time objective (RTO) strategy with transparent business continuity and automatic fail-over across multiple sites, as well as getting simple and efficient hybrid cloud data protection for on-prem and cloud native workloads.
• Accelerate your most demanding applications: Built on a unique, massively parallel, multi-node, and all-active platform, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP consolidates traditional and next-generation mission-critical applications at scale with predictable performance and ultra-low latency.
• Industry's most advanced AI-Ops: Predict and prevent disruptions before they occur across the stack and pinpoint issues between storage and VMs and under-utilized resources. Take the guesswork out of managing data infrastructure with AI-driven recommendations that improves performance, drives higher availability, and optimizes resource utilization and planning.
• Transformed support experience: Eliminate time-consuming, frustrating escalations via predictive support automation and direct access to the experts and resources you need.

Notes:

- ¹ Slot 3 and Slot 4 can be used for host connectivity (at least one is required), and RCIP is optional; Slot 1 and Slot 2 are used for expansion

- ² Effective capacity assumes 4:1 data compaction ratio (thin provisioning, deduplication, compression, and copy technologies) in a RAID 6 (10+2) configuration. Note TB vs TiB. Actual ratios will vary based on workload. See HPE Store More Guarantee for more information.

Host OS Support

Microsoft® Windows® Server and Microsoft® Hyper-V^TM | VMware ESX and ESXi | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® | SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Host OS support varies by connectivity protocol to host. For the latest information on supported operating systems refer to Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HPE Storage Products (SPOCK): http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Warranty

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage has 1 year, parts only warranty. The warranty on all HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Solid State Drives (SSD) is 1 year, parts only, and offers unconditional replacement in case of drive failure, media wear-out, or both. Hewlett Packard Enterprise warrants only that the software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days from delivery. For more information about Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Global Limited Warranty and Technical Support, visit: http://www.hpe.com/storage/warranty

HPE Services

No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, you can count on HPE Services to deliver the expertise you need when, where and how you need it. From planning to deployment, ongoing operations and beyond, our experts can help you realize your digital ambitions.

https://www.hpe.com/services

Consulting Services

No matter where you are in your journey to hybrid cloud, experts can help you map out your next steps. From determining what workloads should live where, to handling governance and compliance, to managing costs, our experts can help you optimize your operations.

https://www.hpe.com/services/consulting

HPE Managed Services

HPE runs your IT operations, providing services that monitor, operate, and optimize your infrastructure and applications, delivered consistently and globally to give you unified control and let you focus on innovation. HPE Managed Services | HPE

Operational services

Optimize your entire IT environment and drive innovation. Manage day-to-day IT operational tasks while freeing up valuable time and resources. Meet service-level targets and business objectives with features designed to drive better business outcomes.

https://www.hpe.com/services/operational

HPE Complete Care Service

HPE Complete Care Service is a modular, edge-to-cloud IT environment service designed to help optimize your entire IT environment and achieve agreed upon IT outcomes and business goals through a personalized experience. All delivered by an assigned team of HPE Services experts. HPE Complete Care Service provides:

• A complete coverage approach -- edge to cloud
• An assigned HPE team
• Modular and fully personalized engagement
• Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
• Digitally enabled and AI driven customer experience

https://www.hpe.com/services/completecare

HPE Tech Care Service

HPE Tech Care Service is the operational support service experience for HPE products. The service goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Tech Care Service delivers a customer-centric, AI driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward. HPE Tech Care Service is available in three response levels. Basic, which provides 9x5 business hour availability and a 2-hour response time. Essential which provides a 15-minute response time 24x7 for most enterprise level customers, and Critical which includes a 6-hour repair commitment where available and outage management response for severity 1 incidents.

https://www.hpe.com/services/techcare

HPE Lifecycle Services

HPE Lifecycle Services provide a variety of options to help maintain your HPE systems and solutions at all stages of the product lifecycle. A few popular examples include:

• Lifecycle Install and Startup Services: Various levels for physical installation and power on, remote access setup, installation and startup, and enhanced installation services with the operating system.
• HPE Firmware Update Analysis Service: Recommendations for firmware revision levels for selected HPE products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
• HPE Firmware Update Implementation Service: Implementation of firmware updates for selected HPE server, storage, and solution products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
• Implementation assistance services: Highly trained technical service specialists to assist you with a variety of activities, ranging from design, implementation, and platform deployment to consolidation, migration, project management, and onsite technical forums.
• HPE Service Credits: Access to prepaid services for flexibility to choose from a variety of specialized service activities, including assessments, performance maintenance reviews, firmware management, professional services, and operational best practices.

Notes: To review the list of Lifecycle Services available for your product go to: https://www.hpe.com/services/lifecycle

For a list of the most frequently purchased services using service credits, see the HPE Service Credits Menu

HPE Installation and Startup Service

Provides for the installation of your HPE hardware according to product specifications including options. The HPE service delivery technician will connect the product to a LAN as appropriate and enable remote support to allow for automatic case creation for hardware failures.

HPE Software Installation and Startup Service

Provides deployment of individual software features, helping to ensure proper installation in your storage environment as well as helping you increase the benefit from your storage investment.

HPE Education Services

Training and certification designed for IT and business professionals across all industries. Broad catalogue of course offerings to expand skills and proficiencies in topics ranging from cloud and cybersecurity to AI and DevOps. Create learning paths to expand proficiency in a specific subject. Schedule training in a way that works best for your business with flexible continuous learning options.

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Defective Media Retention

An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.

Consult your HPE Sales Representative or Authorized Channel Partner of choice for any additional questions and services options.

Parts and Materials

HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements. Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.

How to Purchase Services

Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:

• Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
• Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find services at https://ssc.hpe.com/portal/site/ssc/

AI Powered and Digitally Enabled Support Experience

Achieve faster time to resolution with access to product-specific resources and expertise through a digital and data driven customer experience

Sign into the HPE Support Center experience, featuring streamlined self-serve case creation and management capabilities with inline knowledge recommendations. You will also find personalized task alerts and powerful troubleshooting support through an intelligent virtual agent with seamless transition when needed to a live support agent.

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Consume IT On Your Terms

HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform brings the cloud experience directly to your apps and data wherever they are-the edge, colocations, or your data center. It delivers cloud services for on-premises IT infrastructure specifically tailored to your most demanding workloads. With a pay-per-use, scalable, point-and-click self-service experience that is managed for you, HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform accelerates digital transformation in a distributed, edge-to-cloud world.

• Get faster time to market
• Save on TCO, align costs to business
• Scale quickly, meet unpredictable demand
• Simplify IT operations across your data centers and clouds

To learn more about HPE Services, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative or Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partner. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at "Contact HPE" https://www.hpe.com/us/en/contact-hpe.html

For more information

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Step 1: Choose the Storage Chassis and Controller Nodes

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage configuration starts with the selection of the Storage Chassis and Controller Nodes. The Storage Chassis is a 2U 2-node chassis that includes 24 bays for small form factor NVMe drives. The Storage Chassis does not include any controller nodes or power supplies. Power Supplies are not included in the Storage Chassis or Controller Nodes.

HPE Alletra Storage MP Chassis

Description

SKU

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP Base Configuration

S0B84A

• One (1) S0B84A SKU must be ordered for each configuration

HPE Alletra Storage MP 2U Chassis

R7C75A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 2U TAA-compliant Chassis

S0U32A

• One (1) Storage Chassis SKU must be ordered for each array.
• The Storage Chassis can host two controller nodes and up to 24 small form factor NVMe drives in 2U chassis.
• The Storage Chassis does not include any controller nodes or Power Supplies.

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Controller Nodes

HPE Alletra Storage MP 256GB 8-core Block Controller Node

S0S38A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 256GB 8-core TAA-compliant Block Controller Node

S0S40A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 256GB 16-core Block Controller Node

S0R21A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 256GB 16-core TAA-compliant Block Controller Node

S0S41A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 512GB 32-core Block Controller Node

S0S39A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 256GB 16-core TAA-compliant Cluster Block Controller Node

S0S42A

• Each Controller Node SKU includes one controller node
• Two (2) Controller Node SKUs must be ordered per chassis.
• Both controller nodes need to be of the same type. Different controller node types cannot be mixed in the same chassis.
• Each Controller Node contains two (2) OCP slots for host adapters (Slot 3 and Slot 4), and Slot 1 and Slot 2 are used for expansion.
• Each 32-core Block Controller Node requires (1) 100GbE 2-port OCP HBA (S2A68A) in Slot 1 (see Adapters section)

Step 2: Choose Power Supplies

Description

SKU

HPE Alletra Storage MP C14 1600W AC Power Supply

R7C76A

HPE Alletra Storage MP C14 2200W AC Power Supply

R9Z97A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 1600W -48VDC Power Supply

R7C78A

• The Storage Chassis requires two (2) Power Supplies per chassis.
• Power Supplies are factory integrated in the Storage chassis for shipment.
• The C14 1600W AC Power Supply (R7C76A) is 80 PLUS Platinum certified
• The C14 1600W AC Power Supply (R7C76A) supports high-line; no low-line support
• The C14 2200W AC Power Supply (R9Z97A) is 80 PLUS Titanium certified and needed for EU Lot9 requirements
• The C14 2200W AC Power Supply (R9Z97A) supports high-line; no low-line support
• The DC Power Supply (R7C78A) not available for China, Taiwan, and India

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Power Cord

HPE C13 - C14 250V 10Amp Black 1.4m WW Power Cord

R9R52A

HPE C13 - C14 250V 10Amp Gray 1.4m WW Power Cord

R9S00A

Description

SKU

HPE C13 - C14 250V 10Amp Black 1.37m IN Power Cord

R9R53A

HPE C13 - C14 250V 10Amp Gray 1.37m IN Power Cord

R9S01A

HPE 1600W -48VDC 600V 3.5m Power Cable Kit

P22173-B21

HPE 1600W -48VDC Power Cable Lug Kit

P36877-B21

• R9R52A and R9S00A are for worldwide use except for India
• R9R53A and R9S01A are for India use only.

Step 3: Choose Adapters

Host adapters are used for connection to hosts. They can be ordered standalone to be installed in the field or they can be factory integrated into controller nodes. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage does not have any built-in host ports therefore any configuration needs to have at least one (1) host adapter per controller node. For RCIP remote copy, the Replication HBAs can be ordered as an option.

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Host Adapters

Description

SKU

HPE Alletra Storage MP 32/64Gb 4-port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

R7C90A

HPE Alletra Storage MP 10/25GbE 4-port Host Bus Adapter

R7C82A

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Replication

HPE Alletra Storage MP 10/25GbE 4-port Host Bus Adapter

R7C82A

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage 32-core Controller Nodes

Each 32-core Controller Node (S0S39A/ S0S42A) requires one (1) 100GbE HBA (S2A68A) and one (1) 0.5m DAC cable (R8M59A)

HPE Alletra Storage MP 100GbE 2-port OCP Host Bus Adapter

S2A68A

HPE 100Gb QSFP28 to QSFP28 0.5m Direct Attach Copper Cable

R8M59A

Host Bus Adapter Transceiver Kit

HPE 10Gb SFP+ Short Wave 1-pack Pull Tab Optical Transceiver

Q2P65A

HPE 25Gb SFP28 Short Wave Extended Temperature 1-pack Pull Tab Optical Transceiver

Q2P64B

HPE 32Gb SFP28 Short Wave 1-pack Pull Tab Optical Transceiver

Q2P62A

• Each Controller Node (S0S38A, S0R21A) must have at least one Fibre Channel HBA (R7C90A), or one 10/25GbE HBA (R7C82A) for iSCSI host connectivity. A Controller Node without any host adapters is not a supported configuration.
• Maximum of two (2) Fibre Channel HBA (R7C90A) can be ordered per Controller Node.
• Maximum of one (1) 10/25GbE HBA (R7C82A) can be ordered per Controller Node.
• If Fibre Channel HBA (R7C90A) is configured for host connectivity, the 10/25GbE HBA (R7C82A) can be ordered as an option for RCIP replication.
• A mix of Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity to the host is not supported at this time.
• Refer to SPOCK and the Alletra Storage MP iSCSI Best Practices document on Seismic for iSCSI configuration details.
• The 32/64Gb Fibre Channel Adapter does n