Earlier this week, at HPE Discover, our teams had the great opportunity to announce a new integration between VMware’s flagship Software Defined Datacenter Solution – VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE’s flexible consumption-based model, IT-as-a-Service Solution, GreenLake.
Introducing the HPE GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation
With a cloud operating model that operates within the data center, at the network edge, and within the public cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation provides the most flexible range of solutions that can be customer managed, VMware managed, and partner managed through leading hyperscalers and more than 200 service providers.
HPE GreenLake for VMware® Cloud Foundation™ is an on-premises solution delivered with a cloud experience to unify and simplify operations. How is HPE GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation offered?
- Offered as an HPE GreenLake subscription that helps scale capacity on demand with predictable cost.
- Delivered as a service with native VMware experience reducing the total cost of ownership.
- Standardized ordering and deployment reducing the time to value, complexity, and cost.
- Deployed as a private cloud providing data privacy, security, sovereignty, and low latency for workloads.
To help organizations capitalize on the benefits of hybrid cloud, this as-a-Service solution is designed to help IT teams:
- Innovate faster and adapt more quickly to change.
- Increase operational efficiencies.
- Improve security.
- Reduce total cost of ownership.
- Gain financial transparency that directly associates cost to consumption.
- Unleash the value of your data so you can create rich experiences, accelerate decision velocity, and continue innovation to move your business forward.
Delivering a Full Cloud Service Experience
HPE GreenLake aims to provide a balance between the benefits of public cloud and the control and security of on-premises infrastructure. It allows organizations to optimize their IT operations, reduce capital expenditures, and simplify the management of their IT resources while retaining data sovereignty and complying with regulatory requirements.
Let’s just take a closer look at the stack, and see how both solutions come together. We start with a customer-managed or HPE-managed compute/storage/networking infrastructure; provided by HPE GreenLake; deployed in your data center, colocation, or edge; and consumed as a service. Then, by layering VMware Cloud Foundation, customers can immediately leverage managemnent and workload domains, VMs, storage, data security and applications.
3 Key Advantages to Deploying HPE GreenLake With Cloud Foundation
One of the key challenges in today’s infrastructure landscape, which HPE and VMware seek to address, is the complexity and cost associated with managing and scaling IT infrastructure. Let’s take a look at the specific advantages the solution brings to IT infrastructure leaders:
- True consumption-based, self-service infrastructure – Infrastructure administrators can now automate and configure infrastructure deployments and implement a self-service consumption and delivery layer. VMware Cloud Foundation best practice architectures come out of the box, and these are fully validated, automated and tested by HPE.
- Simplified and secure operations – Everything ranging from implementation, support, operations and hardware management is handled by HPE. HPE GreenLake uses the power of the software platform that is VMware Cloud Foundation to provide full-stack visibility, troubleshooting, insights and remediation for modern infrastructure.
- Reduced Infrastructure TCO – Make use of standardized ordering and factory loading of VMware Cloud Foundation alongside unified billing that includes hardware, software, and services by HPE
