HPE VM Essentilas software is the official Brand name for Hypervisor solution from HPE which will act as an alternative for VMware stack. The idea is to provide clients with fully featured yet cost effective Hypervisor solution.
Key Benefits
Cost reduction – Reduce cost with HPE VME KVM-based hypervisor. It features core capabilities to diversify VM estates including storage optionality (local, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel), distributed workload placement, VM HA and live migration, data protection via snapshot and backup, and Disaster Recovery with Zerto.
Simplified Management across VMware and VME hosts – VM essentials can serve as a single pane of glass for managing both VMware as well as VM Essentials native workloads. Connect existing VMware clusters for VM-vending into ESXi and HPE VME Hypervisor from one interface. Also includes IPAM and DNS integration, automation execution, secrets management, and VMware to VME image conversion.
Future-proof IT with flexible consumption and upgrade paths – VME is available as a standalone software and integrated into HPE Private cloud . Customers can upgrade to full Morpheus PlatformOps for Hybrid cloud management, K8s support, governance and FinOps Capabilities.
Lower risk with enterprise grade support and ecosystem – Building on a proven KVM core, HPE VM Essentials includes HPE enterprise-class global support. HPE is working with its ecosystem of ISVs to expand HPE VME Hypervisor certification and support for Data protection, VDI, ERP, etc.
Solution Overview
In the middle, we have HPE VM Essentials manager which is capable of managing both HPE VM Essentials Host as well as VMware vShere Hosts as indicated below the VM essentials manager.
On top of the VM Essentials manager, we have some of the higher value functionalities like VM provisioning, Basic provisioning and task automation, IPAM and DNS orchestration, Secrets management.
Next, Lets explore the features.
Key Features
HPE Validated Hardware – The HPE VM Essentials hypervysor has been validated on HPE Gen11 servers to deliver an optimal experience and provide hardware compatibility assurance. Use this link to see the Compatibility Matrix
VM Live Migration – Migrate a running HPE VM Essentials virtual machine from one host to another within the same cluster with zero downtime.
VM High Availability – Automatically restart HPE VM Essentials virtual machine on another host in the same cluster in the event of an unexpected host failure within the cluster.
Dynamic Workload Scheduler – Dynamically schedule the placement of HPE VM Essentials VMs within a cluster based upon optimal workload distribution across the cluster.
Storage Migration – Migrate the virtual disk(s) of a running HPE VM Essentials virtual machine from one storage datastore to another with zero downtime.
VMware VM Conversion – Convert existing VMware virtual machines to the HPE VM Essentials hypervisor using the native conversion feature within the HPE VM Essentials solutions.
Native data protection – Backup and restore HPE VM Essentials virtual machines using the solution’s native data protection feature.
Virtual Machines Snapshots – Create and revert snapshots from HPE VM Essentials virtual machines.
External Storage support – VM Essentials Hypervisor supports running virtual machines on external storage via iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel.
HPE Alletra MP Storage integration – HPE VM Essentials includes an integration with the HPE Alletra MP storage array tha enables HPE VM Essentials virtual machines to natively reference the Alletra MP storage for their storage. (1:1 VM to disk mapping)
HPE Alletra MP Array-Based Snapshots – The Alletra MP storage integration provides the ability to create and revert array-based snapshots for HPE VM Essentials virtual machines through the HPE VM essentials UI.
Multi-Hypervisor Support – HPE VM Essentials enables simple provisioning and management of HPE VM Essentials virtual machines as well as VMware virtual machines.
Centralized Identity and Single Sign-On (SSO) – Enable external user authentication using Active Directory(AD) or LDAP. Enable single sign-on with Okta, OneLogin, AzureAD, or SAML.
IPAM Intergration – Integrate with external IPAM providers to automate the reservation of an IP address for the virtual machine during the provisioning process.
DNS Intergration – Integrate with external DNS providers to automate the creation of DNS records for a virtual machine during the provisioning process.
Provisioning Automation – Execute bash or powershell scripts during virtual machine provisioning to automate system bootstrapping operations.
Day 2 automation – HPE VM essentials supports the execution of Bash and powershell scripts on provisioned and discovered machines.
Secrets Management – Securely store and retrieve secrets from the native secrets manager for use with the solution’s task automation feature.
HTML 5 Virtual Machine Console – Access the console of HPE VM Essentials Virtual machines and VMware virtual machines via HTML 5 VM console.
For more Information on HPE VME please visit HPE Website.
HPE VM Essentials Software Overview – https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/hpe-vm-essentials.html
Getting Started With HPE VM Essentials Software – https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/hpe-vm-essentials/get-started.html