What’s new with HPE OneView 5.0?
HPE OneView enables you to set up a foundation of modern data center by transforming storage, servers, and networking into software-defined infrastructure. This tool has a programmatic, software-defined approach to managing infrastructure with competent automated workflo, a modern dashboard, and a complex partner ecosystem.
The new HPE OneView 5.0 provides an updated user interface, a common look and feel across HPE management tools like HPE OneView Global Dashboard. It also supports the HPE Superdome Flex.
This product offers an innovative concept for managing firmware compliance for all HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers, HPE BladeSystems and HPE Synergy. Once new firmware baseline (Service Pack for ProLiant) is loaded, a new firmware compliance view is generated on the HPE OneView dashboard. Moreover HPE OneView compares the installed firmware versions of the managed hardware with the new component versions in the added SPP and generates a compliance report. The firmware compliance dashboard enables the users to manage the firmware updates based on their schedules and quickly decide what firmware isn’t compliant.
The new HPE OneView, has improved performance, enhanced security and new management features. These betterments improve the overall HPE Synergy experience. Here are some most important examples:
DL and Apollo Servers now have automated SAN Storage volume provisioning
Provisioning storage for DL and Apollo servers is now much quicker thanks to automate SAN volume in 5.0 OneView, that uses server profiles and templets. This feature simplifies IT administrator’s task just to a several clicks that take only a few minutes.
The Future with HPE OneView
HPE One View was rated CRN’s 2018 Product of the Year with more than one million licenses sold. For those who want to manage their IT infrastructure in a more effective way OneView keeps on demonstrating it’s value with every new software update released.
Fibre Channel – foundation of storage of data center’s connectivity?
Why Fibre Channel? Fibre Channel is still the most secure, reliable, cost effective, and scalable protocol for connecting servers and storage together—and the only protocol that is purpose-built for handing storage traffic.
Due to expanding amount of data, businesses either make it or fail competing in the market place. Nowadays data is becoming a currency itself, that’s why businesses have to know how to manage and act up on it, in order to stay in the game. That’s why easy, proficient and reliable access data is key, same as the basal infrastructure connecting data storage systems to it’s user is imperative as never before.
In modern data center, architects can choose between many different connectivity options, yet Fibre Channel has been and will be the lifeblood of shared storage connectivity. It’s because of Fibre Channel’s reliability, security, cost effectivity and scalable protocol to connect storage and servers together, also there’s no other protocol that is well-adjusted for coping with storage traffic.
Even though Fibre Channel was created decades ago, it is and undeniably will be the first choice for data center’s connectivity to shared storage. When using Fibre Channel, a dedicated storage network is created, and SCSI storage commands are routed between server and storage devices which bandwidth is up to 28.05Gbps (32GFC) and with IOPS in excess of 1 million. Because of Fibre Channel’s original purpose for storage traffic, it’s accurate for delivering high-performance connectivity. HPE StoreFabric 16GFC and 32GFC adapters and switching infrastructure provide the kind of bandwidth, IOPS and low latency required in the data center today and for years to come.
For example, HPE StoreFabric 16GFC and 32GFC infrastructure can already support NVMe storage traffic, even before NVMe native storage arrays are mainstream. Other advanced capabilities include simplified deployment and orchestration, advanced diagnostics and enhanced reliability such as T-10 PI, dual-port isolation and more.
iSCSI is another popular option for storage connectivity. With iSCSI, the storage commands on a standard TCP/IP network, what makes it great for low-end to mid-range systems where performance and security are not the primary requirements. Many people have a wrong idea about Fibre Channel, that because it uses a dedicated storage network, it is more pricey than iSCSI. iSCSI can run on the same Ethernet network as all the regular network traffic.
Nonetheless, to deliver the performance that most customers need from their storage systems iSCSI needs to run on a segmented or dedicated ethernet network, isolated from the regular network traffic. In other words, a completely dedicated Ethernet network or Complex VLAN configurations and security policies are necessary. The one significant difference between iSCSI and FC is when DAC cables are used in iSCSI implementations. This solution can be used for an SMB customer only with a single storage array, because it limits the facility to 5 meters. Because of this curtailment DAC’s wouldn’t work well in bigger-scale data centers.
Most likely, the SCSI command set will be replaced by NVMe or Non-Volitile Memory Express commands.
NVMe – a streamlined command set designed for SSD and storage class memory (much more efficient than SCSI). It’s a multi-queue architecture with up to 64K I/O queues, with each I/O queue supporting up to 64K commands, compared to SCSI with a single queue and 64 commands, NVMe delivers a much higher performance.
Latest HPE StoreFabric 16GFC and 32GFC infrastructure that supports SCSI commands can also run NVMe commands in the SAN, or over the fabric as it is called. In order to take full advantage of NVMe, customers using Ethernet, will need to implement low latency RDMA over Converged Ethernet or RoCE. Nevertheless, this solution requires a complex loss-less Ethernet implementation using Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Priority Flow Control (PFC). The network complexity for NVMe over Ethernet might become an inextrictable barrier for most customers, especially once FC SAN deployed today would work just fine with the NVMe storage of tomorrow.
