HPE SimpliVity
Step into the future with an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution that’s optimized for your edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.
We've reimagined what your HCI can be
Picture a hyperconverged architecture that’s evolved beyond software-defined to AI-driven — and delivers self-managing, self-optimizing, and self-healing infrastructure. By adding the machine learning predictive analytics of HPE InfoSight to our hyperconverged platform, we’ve ushered in the era of intelligent HCI.
Versus traditional infrastructure
Across storage and backup
Enjoy a simple, consumer experience
Power your enterprise edge
Leverage a flexible, compact architecture that’s perfect for edge and ROBO use cases. Simple, centralized management, AI-driven intelligence, and built-in data protection and disaster recovery ensure your edge deployment never misses a beat. Now HPE SimpliVity enhances its industry-leading rapid backup and recovery capabilities — across your entire multi-site edge estate — with both a centralized HPE StoreOnce long-term backup appliance and seamless cloud backup via HPE Cloud Bank Storage.
Enable your workforce, wherever they are
Solve your challenges around empowering remote employees with a reliable, high performing, and highly secure VDI solution that’s simple to deploy, manage, and scale. Leverage intelligent operations, hyper-efficiency, and comprehensive data protection to lower costs per remote desktop by 50% in an ultra-small footprint.
Solve key business challenges with HPE Simplivity
BUSINESS WHITE PAPER
Protect your data faster, from end to end: Protect your data in a fraction of the time required by legacy solutions.
INTERACTIVE BUSINESS WHITE PAPER
Create VDI efficiency: Drive down costs without sacrificing performance or resiliency.
BUSINESS WHITE PAPER
Centralize ROBO management: Remove distance as a limitation with cost-effective scalability, built-in data efficiency and protection for ROBOs
Drive app modernization with containers
Accelerate your adoption of agile, cloud-native, containerized apps. With HPE SimpliVity, there’s no need for separate systems to power VMs and containers: the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for Kubernetes enables you to easily run everything on a single platform — without additional infrastructure.
INNOVATIONS
Not your ordinary HCI
With a simplicity that’s powered by HPE InfoSight, the most advanced AI for infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity is ideal for edge, ROBO, VDI, and general virtualization use cases. VM-centric management and mobility, built-in backup and DR, and game-changing data efficiency combine in a hyperconverged architecture that’s optimized from data center to edge.
Get the most efficient, all-in-one HCI
Take advantage of HPE SimpliVity’s unrivaled efficiency — with HA across just two nodes and enterprise-grade data services and security built-in.
Consume HPE SimpliVity on demand
Leverage the flexibility and ease of use of industry-leading hyperconverged — but in a consumption-based model that delivers exactly the IT you need, when you need it. HPE SimpliVity is now available as a service through HPE GreenLake.
Enable intelligently simple management
Accelerate time to market and bring an end to IT fire-fighting. Software-defined automation simplifies and speeds day 0 and 1, while artificial intelligence predicts and prevents problems to optimize day 2 and beyond.
Enjoy 90% capacity savings, guaranteed
The hyper efficiency baked into HPE SimpliVity improves application performance, frees up storage, and accelerates local and remote backup and restore functions. We guarantee a 90% capacity savings across storage and backup combined — and you enjoy 10:1 data efficiency.
Remain online and recoverable — always
Leverage built-in backup and disaster recovery to ensure business continuity. HPE SimpliVity’s speed and efficiency enable recovery of a 1 TB VM in 60 seconds. Now you can deploy and consolidate workloads on HPE SimpliVity.
Drive savings for edge and ROBO workloads
HPE SimpliVity’s efficient data services, centralized management, and comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery deliver savings of up to 66% versus traditional three-tier, cloud, or other HCI infrastructure.
HPE SimpliVity portfolio guide
HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Plus
Use cases
Primary examples of system usage
- Data center consolidation
- Maximum general-purpose performance
Features
- 3rd Generation Intel processors, up to 80 cores per node
- Flexibility and SSD performance
- Wider variety of GPU accelerators
Form factor
2U1N, 1-2P
Memory
Up to 8TB
Usable capacity
Before deduplication and compression
x6, x8, x9, x12
7.5TB, 10TB, 21TB, 32TB
Storage configuration
- 6x to 12x with 1.92TB or 3.84TB SSD
- All-flash
HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
Use cases
Primary examples of system usage
- Data center consolidation
- General-purpose performance
Features
- 2nd Generation Intel processors, up to 56 cores per node
- Flexibility and SSD performance
Form factor
2U1N, 1-2P
Memory
Up to 3TB
Usable capacity
Before deduplication and compression
3TB, 6TB, 11TB, 16TB, 32TB
Storage configuration
- 5 x 960GB to 12 x 3.84TB
- All-flash
HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 G
Use cases
Primary examples of system usage
- Multi-GPU image processing, VDI
- Additional NIC connectivity for 1P systems
Features
- 2nd Generation Intel processors, up to 56 cores per node
- PCIe expansion
Form factor
2U1N, 1-2P
Memory
Up to 3TB
Usable capacity
Before deduplication and compression
X6, x8, x9, x12, x16, x18, x24
7.5TB, 10TB, 10TB, 15TB, 20TB, 20TB, 32TB
Storage configuration
- 6 to 24 x 1.92TB
- All-flash
HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 H (SFF)
Use cases
Primary examples of system usage
- High capacity mixed workload
- General purpose virtualization
- Capacity optimized for backup and recovery
Features
- Hybrid storage
Form factor
2U1N, 1-2P
Memory
Up to 3TB
Usable capacity
Before deduplication and compression
20TB
Storage configuration
- 4 x 1.92TB SSD & 20 x 1.2TB HDD
HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus v2
Use cases
Primary examples of system usage
- ROBO, Edge
- VDI, end user computing
- SMB deployments
- Space constrained environments
Features
- 3rd generation AMD processors, up to 64 cores per node
- Lower TCO
Form factor
1U1N, 1P
Memory
Up to 2TB
Usable capacity
Before deduplication and compression
4.6TB, 7.5TB, 10TB
Storage configuration
- 4x, 6x, or 8x 1.92TB SSD
- All-flash
SUCCESS IN ACTION
Racing team gets faster with hyperconverged
Red Bull Racing Honda, a Formula One racing team, is in the business of speed — and it needs infrastructure that is, too.
Challenge
With proprietary, F1-specific applications generating significant amounts of data, Red Bull Racing Honda needed a hyperconvergence solution for its growing storage needs for the virtualized estate.
Solution
HPE SimpliVity now provides the basis for Red Bull Racing Honda’s VMware and VDI estate, in addition to providing the team’s trackside infrastructure for race-day analysis.
“HPE SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure enables us to get better answers quicker when we’re on the racetrack, and seconds count.”
Matt Cadieux, CIO, Red Bull Racing
Result
After replacing its legacy systems with HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure, Red Bull Racing Honda recorded 4.5x faster performance, increased agility, and improved TCO.
Key technical specifications
Advanced data services
- Built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery for data protection
- Always-on deduplication and compression for reduced capacity utilization by up to 10X — guaranteed3
Flexible federation strategy
- Scale up to 16 nodes/cluster and 96 nodes/federation
- Mix clusters within the same federation — for example, HPE SimpliVity 380 at the core data center and HPE SimpliVity 325, 380 or 2600 at the edge
Simple, intelligent management
- Global, VM-centric management and mobility, plus artificial intelligence by HPE InfoSight
Simplify your environment with HPE SimpliVity 380
- Storage-intensive workloads
- Multiple all-flash configuration options (XS, S, M, L, and XL)
- Backup and archive node with hybrid flash storage
- Hardware-accelerated or software-optimized for always-on deduplication and compression
Extend your options with HPE SimpliVity 325
- Small ROBO and edge use cases
- Highly dense, 1U, single AMD processor node with high core count
- Lower TCO
- Full HPE SimpliVity functionality
Optimize your data center footprint with HPE SimpliVity 325
- General purpose virtualization, edge, and VDI workloads
- Space-constrained environments that need a high-density server form factor
- Software-optimized for always-on deduplication and compression
Related Case studies
Andelyn Biosciences leverages HPE SimpliVity to power data throughout the product lifecycle
Andelyn turned to HPE for a scalable, data-first environment that would grow with them.
TSPL powers VDI with HPE SimpliVity for availability, scalability and manageability
Energy provider consolidated its legacy server and storage environment onto an efficient HCI platform.
Golden State Warriors builds next-generation stadium to deliver unparalleled fan experiences with HPE SimpliVity
When the Golden State Warriors envisioned the ultimate arena, they knew it had to have connectivity and intelligence built into the facility, and turn data into a business driver.
Federation University partners with HPE to create a platform for educational excellence and generate cost savings and simplify IT operations
Streamlining management of servers, storage, and backup through hyperconverged infrastructure allowed Federation University Australia to achieve it’s vision of allocating more resources to its student’s experiences.
Riml consolidates it’s data center with HPE SimpliVity to future-proof it’s business and reduce management overhead and increase cost savings
Riml, a 200 employee company located in the Tyrolean Ötztal, depends on high-performance IT to offer all of its guests the best possible service, and modernized it’s entire IT environment.
Fino Payments Bank establishes a self-managed, self-optimized, and self-healing infrastructure, with HPE SimpliVity and HPE infoSight
Pioneering payment bank gives greater access to financial services to spur the economy and raise people out of poverty across India.
AK Capital and HPE build comprehensive infrastructure solution for manageability, data protection, compliance and business continuity.
HPE SimpliVity is a game changer for one of India’s most trusted financial bond houses to deliver high uptime and app availability, meet security compliance, and simple, automated disaster recovery.
HPE SimpliVity improves VDI stability for Häagen-Dazs Japan
The goal to build a new virtualization platform with HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 and VMware vCenter®, and adopt a 2-node configuration pays-off giving an advanced low cost HCI environment for leading premium ice cream company.
Office supply company centralizes and standardizes its data centers using HPE SimpliVity and HPE Synergy
Staples Solutions had six outsourced data centers that were difficult and costly to manage and built a comprehensive HPE solution to standardize the data centers and drive flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Unichem Laboratories Ltd. accelerates innovation, reimagines production, and strengthens compliance with HPE SimpliVity
In the race to deliver global cures, Unichem needed to establish a reliable, scalable infrastructure on which to deliver business-critical applications and accelerate innovation.