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News: Nutanix and HPE – What has happened over the past year?
Nutanix and HPE
What has happened over the past year?
Since Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nutanix first dominated the IT industry with their DX offering, there have been some incredible developments in both their technology as well as their relationship.
Pinnacle was named the first distributor awarded access to this exciting solution in South Africa due to their already strong relationship with both Nutanix and HPE.
“Over the past year we have seen incredible growth across both brands as well as reseller confidence to adopt the technology, our Pinnacle Enterprise team [known as Pinnes] have done some amazing deployments which we are extremely proud of.”
- Jeremy Lichtenstein, HPE Solutions Architect at Pinnacle ICT
The technology has continued to evolve with DX solutions offering AMD for OLTP and VDI deployments. Support for SAP HANA and even the introduction of a ruggedized system for those unforgiving environments.
Let’s start with AMD. The EPYC processors, live up to their name and you won’t be disappointed. The performance gain based on the cost is unprecedented, meaning you can do more with fewer nodes. This is achieved due to the amount of processing cores that AMD can fit onto a single socket as well as the increased I/O channels and memory capacity. Nutanix Acropolis fully supports the new EPYC range and can run VDI, online transaction processing and data analytics applications much faster.
If you are looking for a system that is a little more on the rugged side, then look no further than the ProLiant DX8000. What makes this unit so amazing is the fact that one chassis fit four DX910 server blades. It is a rugged solution built for those harsh environments outside of the datacenter where temperatures can fluctuate and can even handle an environment that experiences constant vibrations. The solution is much smaller and lightweight than typical systems with a lower power requirement. By consolidating your environments compute, storage, networking and virtualization -with the help of the Nutanix software, these systems can be deployed very rapidly. Capacity can easily be scaled as the nodes simply auto-join the resource pool. With the Nutanix software a system failure can easily and automatically be mitigated and in some cases self-healed.
In some instances, deployment needs to take place away from your trusted IT team which can cause some concerns. With the Nutanix one-click operation management, extensive experience is not required meaning your remote team can focus on the work at hand instead of worrying about IT operations.
If you’re migrating over to SAP HANA, the HPE ProLiant DX560 which has been NetWeaver Certified is the system for your business. This unit has been extensively tested to ensure seamless operations and allows for up to four Xeon processors with an extensive memory footprint when compared to the two socket DX380. These solutions have been purpose built and are fully supported by SAP.
When it’s time to look at storing unstructured data, the DX4200 is the answer. This unit is great for data analytics applications and with a capacity of up to 240TB per node with 24 large form factor disks, your clusters can easily scale into petabytes of storage. No solution would however be complete without effective backups.
Nutanix Mine which fully integrates with HYCU or Veeam, provides a simple managed backup solution. Everything can be managed through the Nutanix Prism interface for stress free operations. Your ProLiant DX solution stack can be managed with the Prism one-click operations for hardware and software updates, capacity expansions and lifecycle management.
With the help of Pinnacle Enterprise Solutions in partnership with Nutanix and HPE, the right solution is available for your business.
For more information, contact Gerhard Gouws via email ([email protected]) or via telephone on +27 11 265 3000.
