With the interest level surrounding hyper-converged appliances continuing to rise, it comes as no surprise that big OEM vendors like #HPE want to get in on the action. HPE's all-in-one-box solution is the HC 250, which packs up to four nodes into a single 2U chassis. It comes in two basic flavors with support for both #VMware and #Microsoft 's Cloud Platform Systems – Standard.
Converged 380 is the newest member of the family and is based on the popular DL 380 Gen9 server. This product starts with a minimum of two physical servers and scales up to as many as sixteen nodes.
With a front-panel storage capacity of up to twenty-four small form factor (SFF) drive slots, it's possible to max out the unit at 25.2 TB of storage per appliance with the current software. This will only increase over time.
HPE's secret sauce for both of these systems is in the company's simplified OneView InstantOn (OVIO) deployment tool. This menu-driven question and answer tool takes the majority of the pain out of configuring multiple machines for clustering, networking and storage.
On the storage side, HPE uses its StoreVirtual #VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) product for both the HC 250 and HC 380. StoreVirtual VSA takes the place of #VSAN for VMware and Storage Spaces on the Microsoft side. We'll look at this feature in more detail in a bit.
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