HPE Synergy frame and network solutions

Delivering enhanced multi-frame, multi-network connectivity

HPE Synergy 12000 Frame

Are your customers looking to upgrade their traditional blade server infrastructure? HPE Synergy offers significant performance, management, and deployment speed improvements by utilising software-defined intelligence to transform data centres into fluid pools of compute, storage, and network resources.

The HPE Synergy 12000 Frame is the hardware foundation for HPE’s composable infrastructure. It provides your customers with a flexible location in which compute, storage, network, and management can be combined. HPE Synergy Frame Link Modules make it easier than ever to connect multiple frames together in a cluster, drastically simplifying network connections.

Using the HPE Image Streamer and HPE Synergy Composer, IT professionals can automatically provision critical resources where they’re needed most and eliminate the need for workload specific environments.

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KEY SPECIFICATIONS

  • Supports HPE Synergy 480 and HPE 660 Gen10 Compute Modules
  • 12 slots for compute or storage
  • Two appliance bays for management
  • Six interconnect module bays
  • 10 fan bays
  • Six power supplies
  • Two frame link module slots

Customisable architecture

With 12 open slots for compute and storage modules, your customers can build a custom hardware configuration that meets their specific needs.

Reduce complexity

The HPE Synergy 12000 Frame uses intelligent auto-discovery to find all available resources and accelerate workload deployment.

Use and re-purpose resources

Flexible access to compute, storage and network resources allows your customers to manage them intelligently.

HPE Synergy Composer

HPE Synergy Composer is a hardware management appliance powered by HPE OneView. It provides a single interface for assembling and reassembling flexible compute, storage, and fabric resources to support business‐critical applications and a variety of workloads, whether they are bare metal, virtualised, or containerised.

Composable pools
of IT resources

Composable pools of compute, storage, and networking operate in a single structure, providing flexible resources that can be seamlessly configured, deployed, and leveraged where they’re needed most.

Software-defined intelligence
with HPE OneView

With HPE OneView, your customers can automate the deployment and management of IT resources. This provides greater control of IT services and saves time spent on infrastructure development and configuration.

Unified APIs

Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow infrastructures to be driven by code, delivering powerful automation and Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service (IaaS) capabilities to your customers.

HPE Image Streamer

HPE Image Streamer works with HPE Synergy Composer to rapidly deploy and update composable infrastructure. It utilises ‘infrastructure as code’ to manage physical servers with flexibility –– just like virtual machines –– to reduce complexity, provide consistency across infrastructure, and save significant time and resources.

Control compute modules

Provides software-defined control over physical compute modules with OS provisioning.

Accelerate application and service delivery

Bootable OS images are stored on redundant HPE Image Streamer appliances, ready to implement onto multiple compute nodes at any time.

Enable workload switching

HPE Synergy Image Streamer activates the fluid resource pools by enabling workload switching.

Efficient network management

Networking is an expensive data centre resource and poses a great deal of complexity to large businesses. By providing a fully converged environment – where compute, storage, and networking resources are combined and leveraged on the fly – HPE Synergy has the potential to help your customers reduce their networking footprint, lower costs, and simplify the management of networking resources.

HPE Synergy Composable Fabric

HPE Synergy networking solutions are based on composable fabric that virtualises network resources within a software layer. By using HPE OneView, your customers can gain a holistic view of their software-defined network, as well as the ability to configure network resources as required. This centralised mode of control provides enhanced bandwidth management, restoration capabilities, security, and intelligent, optimised policies that adapt to changing needs.

Composable fabric benefits large businesses by simplifying network connectivity across multiple frames, SANs, WANs, and multiple sites using disaggregation in a cost‐effective, highly available, and scalable architecture.

The disaggregated, rack‐scale design uses a master/satellite architecture to connect multiple frames and consolidate data centre network connections. Additionally, HPE Synergy networking solutions help reduce hardware and simplify management complexity through a state-of-the-art low footprint design.

HPE Virtual Connect modules

HPE Virtual Connect modules for HPE Synergy are the master modules that support the composable infrastructure networking fabric across frames. Each multi-frame HPE Synergy system needs a master frame with an HPE Virtual Connect module.

HPE Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Module

  • Consolidate data centre network connections, reduce hardware, and scale network bandwidth across multiple HPE Synergy frames.
  • Simplify fabric management
  • Compatible with HPE Synergy 10gb and 20gb Interconnect Link Modules
  • Compatible with HPE Synergy 480 and 660 Gen10 Compute modules

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HPE Virtual Connect SE 100Gb F32 Module

  • Consolidate data centre network connections, reduce hardware, and scale network bandwidth across multiple HPE Synergy frames.
  • Provide 25/50/100gb performance
  • Simplify fabric management
  • Compatible with HPE Synergy 50gb Interconnect Link Modules
  • Compatible with HPE Synergy 480 and 660 Gen10 Compute modules

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HPE Synergy Interconnect Link Modules

HPE Synergy Interconnect Link Modules are satellites which connect to master modules to provide intelligent networking capabilities across multi-frame HPE Synergy infrastructure.

HPE Synergy 10gb Interconnect Link Module

  • Inherits all the benefits of master module
  • Up to four additional satellite frames can be connected to master module
  • Up to 60 Synergy Compute Modules with one-hop can be supported with master module
  • Supports HPE Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Module for Synergy and HPE Synergy 40Gb F8 Switch Module

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HPE Synergy 20gb Interconnect Link Module

  • Inherits all the benefits of master module
  • Up to four additional satellite frames can be connected to master module
  • Up to 36 Synergy Compute Modules with one-hop can be supported with master module
  • Supports HPE Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Module for Synergy and HPE Synergy 40Gb F8 Switch Module

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HPE Synergy 50gb Interconnect Link Module

  • Inherits all the benefits of master module
  • Up to four additional satellite frames can be connected to master module
  • Up to 60 HPE Synergy Compute Modules with one-hop can be supported with master module
  • Supports HPE Virtual Connect SE 100Gb F32 Module

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Switch modules

Your customers with existing data centre environments using legacy switching and administration may want to integrate HPE Synergy. Switch modules –– ethernet switches that delivers control over networks from a command-line interface (CLI) –– provides fast switching capabilities and allows administrators to manage switching within the frame.

Like the HPE Virtual Connect modules, the HPE Synergy Switch Modules act as a master module and support the master/satellite frame architecture when combined with HPE Interconnect Link Modules.

HPE Synergy 40Gb F8 Switch Module

  • Consolidate data centre network connections, reduce hardware, and scale network bandwidth across multiple HPE Synergy frames
  • Improve network reliability with resilient fabric connectivity
  • Provides a managed switch interconnect interface to Ethernet networks
  • Reduce operation effort by supporting compatible standard Ethernet environment management processes

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Mellanox SH2200 Switch Module for HPE Synergy

  • High-performance, wire-speed 25GbE or 50GbE downlink ports to HPE Synergy Compute Modules
  • Up to 2.8 tbps switching capacity and 8.4 BPPS throughput for the most demanding applications
  • Ultra-low latency (<300 ns)
  • Improve network virtualisation performance

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HPE Synergy Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Modules

HPE Synergy Fibre Channel modules simplify compute module connections by separating the frame from the SAN. It streamlines the process of connecting compute modules to fibre channel networks by reducing cables and SAN switch management domains.

HPE Virtual Connect SE 16Gb Fibre Channel Module

  • Deliver best-in-class enterprise data centre performance
  • Guarantee up to 384Gb/s of bandwidth
  • Best for operating systems and applications demanding low-latency high I/O performance, i.e. SSD storage

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HPE Virtual Connect SE 32Gb Fibre Channel Module

  • Deliver best-in-class enterprise data centre performance
  • Guarantee up to 768Gb/s of bandwidth
  • Best for connecting with SANs where super low latency, high I/O performance is required for mission critical data and applications

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Brocade Fibre Channel SAN Switches

Brocade Fibre Channel SAN Switches provide higher performance embedded Fibre Channel switch module options for HPE Synergy frames. These switches are designed to handle demanding applications, such as financial services, trading applications, medical imaging, and rendering, while simplifying SAN management and saving space and expenditure.

Brocade 16gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module for HPE Synergy

  • Support virtualised environments
  • Powerful built-in monitoring, SAN management, and diagnostic tools to simplify administration, increase uptime, and reduce costs
  • HPE OneView integration
  • Enable data centre consolidation with HPE frame

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Brocade 32gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module for HPE Synergy

  • Higher switching bandwidth of 896 Gbps to support high-density virtualisation and demanding workloads
  • Better application performance with lower latency (<=900 ns)
  • Powerful built-in monitoring, SAN management, and diagnostic tools to simplify administration, increase uptime, and reduce costs
  • HPE OneView integration
  • Enable data centre consolidation with HPE frame

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HPE Synergy Interconnect Link Cables

HPE Synergy Interconnect Link Cables are designed to connect pools of compute resources by linking multiple frames through master module to the satellite module connections.

  • Offer better ROI by consolidating and aggregating all traffic
  • Provides 120gb connection for master/satellite architecture
  • Low-cost solution for short distance connectivity up to 2.1m

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The ALSO advantage –– HPE Synergy

ALSO are uniquely positioned to help you configure and deploy HPE Synergy networking solutions. Our team of product and sales experts can support you to define and implement the best solutions for your customers.

Support from design to deployment

Our sales and technical teams can advise and support you at every step – whether you handle implementation yourself or use HPE Pointnext.

Local product experts

Our local product experts deliver cutting-edge knowledge and advice on the latest offerings in your country.

Specialist configuration support

Configure storage and backup solutions with specialist support and accessible guidance from ALSO.

Price quote assistance

The ALSO sales team can help you complete your storage and backup quote with friendly, straightforward assistance.

Need help configuring Synergy Networking Solutions?
Call Morten.

He’s part of ALSO’s team of experienced HPE sales and product specialists.

Rainer Koch

Technical Sales Manager

+49 2921 / 99 5445
HPE-Solutions-DE@also.com

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