Hybrid work strategies have transformed how organizations ensure a consistent and secure experience for employees, regardless of their location. Similarly, organizations should expect the same level of consistency and security for their compute infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
WEI partner HPE recognizes this need and is leading the way with its modernized compute management experience through HPE GreenLake. HPE GreenLake’s modernized compute management experience meets this demand by unifying operations as a service across the entire compute lifecycle, from edge to cloud, streamlining operations, automating key tasks, and delivering cloud-like operational agility. This results in a seamless, unified compute management experience, ensuring optimal performance, security, and efficiency across edge-to-cloud environments.
Simplifying Server Lifecycle Management
Server lifecycle management covers the comprehensive oversight of servers from initial deployment through their eventual retirement. This task has become significantly more challenging in today’s distributed computing landscape, where servers are no longer confined to a single, centralized data center. To address this complexity, HPE GreenLake provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that supports remote site and multisite management, even for locations with low bandwidth or high latency network connectivity.
Their unified SaaS platform delivers the following features:
- Compute lifecycle operations and insights
- Account management
- Subscription management
- Server onboarding
- Inventory management
- Role and user management capabilities.
This cloud-based approach enables organizations to centralize and streamline the management of their globally dispersed compute infrastructure, ensuring consistent operations, compliance, and visibility across the entire server lifecycle, regardless of geographic boundaries or network constraints.
As part of the HPE GreenLake ecosystem, Compute Ops Management is a SaaS solution centered around three key themes: simplicity, unification, and automation. With this, organizations and IT teams enjoy the following capabilities:
- Unified compute device management
- Firmware baseline setting, monitoring, and notifications
- Hardware and firmware alerts
- Intelligent delta-only updates
- Remote and multisite deployment support
- Low bandwidth and high latency network compatibility
- Automated HPE iLO updates
While it may sound complex, the benefits are clear: HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management enables server firmware updates up to five times faster. This is achieved through scalability, which allows for efficient onboarding and the updating of thousands of distributed devices. The simplification and time savings start right from server deployment, using a secure, governed approach that includes bulk server onboarding, OS image deployment, and server tagging, streamlining the entire process from the outset.
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Simple Because It Is Unified
The HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management solution offers a unified approach to managing distributed compute environments. This simplifies operations and provides comprehensive visibility across your entire compute estate – from edge devices to data center servers and public cloud instances. A centralized console offers real-time insights into server health, status, and compliance, which enables proactive issue detection and resolution through alerts and recommended actions.
As a cloud-based service, HPE GreenLake provides a modern, flexible operational experience with subscription-based pricing and access to new features like sustainability insights and carbon footprint reporting.
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Automation Included
Businesses are increasingly recognizing the transformative power of automation which speeds up tasks, offloads redundant tasks from your specialized talent, and reduces human error. HPE Compute Ops Management is a comprehensive solution designed to automate many of the routine tasks associated with server lifecycle management.
A key benefit of HPE Compute Ops Management is its ability to streamline firmware management. This solution enables you to quickly establish firmware baselines across your entire device fleet, ensuring consistent configurations and facilitating compliance tracking. It can automatically identify devices that require updates and download only the necessary changes, minimizing network traffic and reducing downtime. Additionally, you can create policies to stage and schedule firmware updates in a controlled and automated manner across groups of servers.
Another valuable feature of HPE Compute Ops Management is automated server onboarding, a process that enables you to deploy new server hardware from a bare-metal state to a fully configured system in minutes. The solution automatically sets BIOS settings, updates drivers and firmware, and labels/groups devices for inventory management. By automating these time-consuming tasks, you can significantly accelerate the deployment of new servers and improve operational efficiency.
In addition to firmware management and server onboarding, HPE Compute Ops Management offers a range of other automated capabilities, including:
- Automatic and on-demand iLO firmware updates
- Automatic and on-demand firmware compliance checking
- Automatic creation of HPE support cases for critical serviceable events
- Automated self-healing capabilities to resolve issues before they cause downtime
HPE Compute Ops Management intelligently automates lifecycle management tasks to deliver enhanced value and cloud-like agility to your organization's hybrid compute infrastructure. This solution significantly reduces operational overhead, ensures continuous compliance, and accelerates time-to-action for server events across your distributed environments.
Final Thoughts
How can you seamlessly integrate this advanced agility-defining management solution into your infrastructure? Simply acquire an HPE ProLiant Gen 11 server. Each server includes a three-year subscription to HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, providing automatic enhancements in agility, visibility, control, and operational efficiency for your mission-critical servers.
By leveraging these technologies, your organization can streamline compute operations management, optimize server lifecycles, and gain a competitive edge. With our expertise in server modernization solutions, our team is ready to guide you through this transition. Don’t let outdated server management slow your business down. Contact us today to discover how HPE Compute Ops Management can propel your business forward and transform your IT infrastructure.
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