Co-Author – Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances Director, VMware
Since last few years, customers have been enabling Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) use cases with VMware vSAN as the hyper-converged storage solution. One of the major use cases for leveraging distributed storage at ROBO locations is that this makes them self-sustained in running applications locally. This allows for storing and retaining all the data locally and transmitting data back to the central data center for processing, analytics, aggregation and various other business benefits as required.
With the advent of IoT and the rise in the amount of data that’s being generated, there is a growing need for processing at the edge. This includes providing real-time business decisions on the data being generated at the edge as sending all data to cloud is impractical and often times not desired due to either cost or networking requirements of low round trip and latencies. Some data will be used immediately (not required to be retained), right at the edge to monitor, make changes and alert based on that data in real time e.g. wind mill operations, automobile manufacturing installations, oil rigs etc.
An IoT solution is only as good as the insights that can be generated from things, and the control that can be provided to those things. For this reason an Intelligent Edge – that can handle streaming data, process events, provide edge analytics is an important element for any IoT solution. Hence there is a growing need for platforms that can power an intelligent edge.
To address this new set of IoT use cases, we are excited to announce the support for new hardware platforms on vSAN and are building an eco-system around it. This platform delivers required computing for immediate data processing to enabling the businesses to address such need.
What are we announcing today?
To enable our customers to power an intelligent edge, we have certified HPE Moonshot/Edgeline as vSAN ReadyNode. HPE Edgeline provides powerful, data center-level compute and management technology at the edge with robust platform that can operate in extreme conditions. This edge-optimized and purpose-built form factor when coupled with the distributed storage provided by VMware vSAN, allows customers to fulfill their edge computing use cases in the most efficient manner possible with enterprise grade resiliency and performance.
What is the hardware that has been certified for vSAN?
The vSAN ReadyLabs team is pleased to announce vSAN ReadyNodes for HPE ProLiant m510 server cartridge which plugs into the HPE Moonshot 1500 and HPE Edgeline EL1000/EL4000 systems.
HPE ProLiant m510 ReadyNode
In addition, we will continue to certify other server platforms jointly with HPE to expand this portfolio.
The HPE Edgeline EL1000 and EL4000 systems can be optimally configured with one (1) and four (4) HPE ProLiant m510 (8 or 16 core) or HPE ProLiant m710x (4 core + GPU) high density servers respectively.
HPE Edgeline EL4000 Converged Edge System
The HPE Moonshot 1500 chassis provides a scalable platform to support a range of solution cartridges optimized for specific workloads in a space and energy efficient manner.
HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis
This certified ReadyNode is part of a new vSAN Edge Hardware category created to better fit the needs of edge compute platforms. Specifications of vSAN Edge hardware is shown below:
Summary
Together HPE and VMware can accelerate your journey into IoT/edge computing and are committed to delivering powerful IoT/edge-based solutions together. This fits in the broader VMware’s overall edge strategy enabling exciting new use cases.
We look forward to engaging with our customers at their edge frontiers.
For any questions on vSAN hardware, please reach out to vSAN Hardware PM [email protected].
To learn more about vSAN, visit VMware vSAN
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