Today’s organizations are continuously seeking new ways to optimize and accelerate how they work. Virtualization offers numerous benefits for on-prem and cloud environments, allowing organizations to consolidate resources, minimize downtime, and streamline IT management. These outcomes can effectively reduce operating costs, increase efficiency, enhance security, and much more. Yet many organizations are looking for an alternative solution.
Some virtualization technology comes with high costs, complexity, and vendor lock-in issues that can hinder innovation.
HPE is on a mission to change that.
Morpheus Data (recently acquired by HPE) is an award-winning leader in private and hybrid cloud orchestration, turning both VMware and kernel-based VM (KVM-based) deployments into private clouds for hundreds of customers and millions of application workloads. Now, their technology is powering the new HPE Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) Software.
HPE Morpheus VME Software is an open virtualization solution that includes KVM-based hypervisors for running virtualized workloads.
The platform provides a seamless VM provisioning and management experience with the ability to integrate with VMware® vSphere®,an enterprise workload engine that allows for the creation,
management, and deployment of VMs. Integrations with IPAM, DNS, and automation tools enable tedious provisioning steps to be automated to simplify the provisioning of HPE Morpheus VME and
VMware VMs.
This solution provides a user-friendly VM-vending experience across both stacks. Organizations can easily manage existing virtualized workloads, streamline VMware deployments, and re-platform to a new hypervisor.
The acquisition of Morpheus Data enables HPE GreenLake cloud to further unify and streamline IT operations for users. HPE Morpheus VME is the first step in utilizing Morpheus across the HPE portfolio
to help reduce costs, eliminate vendor lock-in, and simplify hybrid IT—while setting the stage for future modernization.
Partnership Value
Accelerating time to value: AMD EPYC™ processors paired with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials deliver impressive workload performance and energy efficiency. HPE provides software documentation and
a reference architecture to help you activate, run, and manage installation/setup to configuring storage and creating custom VM templates. AMD CPU-based HPE infrastructure can support 2x the VM density and achieve up to 1.4x higher performance compared to similar offerings.
Enabling seamless virtualization: Provision and manage both KVM and VMware-based VMs from a single interface simplifying virtualization management and reducing costs. IT administrators can quickly provision VMs using the solution’s intuitive provisioning wizard or REST API.
Easily managing your virtual environment: Our affordable, enterprisegrade solution can run as standalone software on existing hardware or embedded in HPE Private Cloud Solutions and both options are fully upgradeable to Morpheus cloud management for advanced functionality. Leveraging enterprise virtualization features: HPE Morpheus VME Software enables workload resiliency with high availability to quickly restart VMs on another physical host in the event of a host failure.
Migrating running VMs from one physical host to another within a cluster eliminates downtime to improve host utilization or to perform host maintenance.
Reducing operational costs: The KVM-based hypervisor enables IT organizations to adopt an affordable virtualization platform for hosting virtualized workloads. The software integrates with external storage to take advantage of existing infrastructure investments and reduce operational overhead. Benefits are significant, including up to 90% savings for migrated workloads and up to 48% lower TCO over 5 years.13, 14 Organizations can also achieve 7:1 consolidation and save up to 65% in power savings per year.
Customer Benefits
• Reduce complexity of virtualized workloads
• Simplify management of your virtual environment
• Optimize cost of virtualized infrastructure
• Upgrade your cloud operating model with the full Morpheus suite
• Streamline your upgrade path with a flexible consumption model
Key Takeaways
• Self-service application provisioning for a variety of users
• Fine-grained role-based access control
• Advanced lifecycle and Day 2 automation
• Term-based subscription license priced competitively on a per-CPU socket basis
• Cloud cost management and optimization