HPE Smart Connect Bundles: технические характеристики и документация

HPE Smart Connect Bundles

Product overview

Simplify and automate rack server networking at scale

The HPE Smart Connect Bundles and Smart Connect Manager software combine to provide an innovative Hewlett Packard Enterprise solution that leverages best-of-breed server and networking technology to simplify and automate rack server networking at scale.

HPE Smart Connect Bundles, which include the HPE Smart Connect Manager software, can help server administrators easily and quickly interconnect large numbers of HPE ProLiant Gen 10 and Gen 9 rack servers, helping to design, automate and validate server network connectivity (across dozens of server racks) while simplifying and speeding data center infrastructure provisioning. 

Simplify and automate rack server networking at scale, saving time and effort with pre-defined server networking bundles and zero-touch provisioning innovation.

Features and Benefits

Scale out deployments with confidence

As part of HPE Smart Connect Bundles, Smart Connect Manager delivers comprehensive network deployment automation across multiple racks with predefined, workload-specific configurations. Be fast and agile while reducing error-prone manual network setup tasks. Standardized components and design helps to ensure consistent positive results while minimizing the effort required.

Quickly and easily interconnect servers.

For server administrators needing to rapidly stand-up two or more racks of servers, HPE Smart Connect Manager can speed infrastructure provisioning by up to 93% versus manual, CLI based network provisioning, using innovative zero-touch provisioning technologies.

Intuitive, iLO based administrative GUI.

HPE Smart Connect Manager software seamlessly provisions top-of-rack switches and rack servers, quickly enabling your infrastructure to be workload ready for bare metal, containers, or server virtualization deployments. Based on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Grommet framework, HPE Smart Connect Manager feels familiar with the server-centric experience HPE is famous for.

Simple.

Simplify decisions and streamline the procurement process. HPE Smart Connect Bundles simple-to-buy workload solutions lower business risks with automated, tested, and repeatable deployment processes.

Streamlined Procurement

• Predefined hardware bundles and software licenses
• Bundles are optimized for and based on workloads.
• Contains everything you need to build a complete rack-scale networking solution (including all the hardware, software, and cabling).
• Based on your application workload, you choose from a balanced workload or big data kit and then select the appropriate server connectivity, rack connectivity, and fabric kits.
• Pre-configured for specific workload(s) across 1-15 racks.
• HPE Smart Connect Manager included in the bundles.  

Streamlined Deployment 

• Automatic discovery and setup of network infrastructure
• Automated server side network connectivity with ZTP
• Combines HPE ProLiant servers with Arista switches in an industry-standard leaf-spine design.  

Streamlined Maintenance 

• Automatically configure Servers, NICs and Arista Switches.
• Define configuration policies through a web user interface
• Eliminate time-consuming and error-prone manual updates with efficient remote software distribution.
• Topology aware upgrade helps to prevent accidental outages and perverse workload connectivity during the network device upgrade process.

CTO Models

HPE Smart Connect 25GbE Bal WL Kit

P01125-B21

See Configuration NOTE: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10

HPE Smart Connect 25GbE Big Data WL Kit

P01126-B21

See Configuration NOTE: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10

HPE Smart Connect 100GbE Fab Kit

P01127-B21

See Configuration NOTE: 5, 6, 7

HPE Smart Connect 100GbE Rack Kit

P01129-B21

See Configuration NOTE: 5, 6, 8, 10

HPE Smart Connect 25GbE Server Kit

P01128-B21

See Configuration NOTE: 5, 6, 9, 11

Configuration Rules:

Note 1

Configurator GUI Starting Point (in Configuration Selection Wizard window): HPE Smart Connect Bundles

Note 2

OCA Only - If HPE Smart Bundles is starting point and P01125-B21 is selected, Then Add Qty 3 x P01125-B21, Qty 1 x P01127-B21 & Qty 3 x P01129-B21.

Note 4

Min 3, Max 16

Note 5

Warning Message - These Bundles are supported with following servers only - DL360 Gen9, DL360 Gen10, DL380 Gen9, DL380 Gen10, DL385 Gen10, DL560 Gen9, DL560 Gen10, DL580 Gen9 & DL580 Gen10.

Note 6

Warning Message - Only HPE 621, 622, 640 and 631 Series NICs are supported.

Note 7

Min 1, Max 2

Note 8

Min 3, Max 32

Note 9

Min 0, Max 480

Note 10

If we have one Fabric Kit in the order, then customer must select ONE quantity of 'HPE Smart Connect 100GbE Rack Kit' for every Workload kit in the order (P01125-B21).

If we have two Fabric Kits in the order, then customer must select TWO quantities of 'HPE Smart Connect 100GbE Rack Kit' for every Workload kit in the order (P01125-B21).

Note 11

Warning Message - HPE Recommends customer to choose one 'HPE Smart Connect 25GbE Server Kit' per server.

Date

Version History

Action

Description of Change

16-July-2018

Version 2

Changed

Changes made on Configuration section

04-June-2018

Version 1

Created

Document creation.