HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Notes: HPE Ezmeral Container Platform has been rebranded to HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise. Please refer to the HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise QuickSpecs for more information. 

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Gartner estimates that 75% of enterprises will have containerized applications in production by 2022.  These enterprise organizations are adopting containers and embracing a cloud-native micro-services architecture, in order to accelerate the speed of application development and innovation, while also benefiting from greater efficiency and portability. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto open source standard for container orchestration and is now a fundamental building block for cloud-native architectures.  

While it is straightforward to deploy modern, cloud-native applications in containers, these represent a small portion of enterprise applications. The vast majority of enterprise applications are still non-cloud-native, typically with a monolithic architecture and persistent data storage. These non-cloud-native monolithic applications could benefit from the agility and efficiency that containers can introduce to the enterprise.  The challenge is how to run these monolithic applications in containers, without re-architecting them.  As enterprise organizations extend the use of containers and Kubernetes beyond development and testing to production environments, they need to address key considerations including security and data persistence. 

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is a Kubernetes based software platform for deploying and managing containerized applications in the enterprise at scale, for both cloud-native and non-cloud-native monolithic applications with persistent data. It supports a variety of use cases including machine learning, analytics, IoT/Edge, DevOps (CI/CD), and application modernization.  Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto open source standard for container orchestration and is a fundamental building block for cloud native architectures.  The Ezmeral Container Platform 5.3 release introduces a number of important new capabilities tied to advancing our AI/analytics and DevOps capabilities. This latest version allows our clients build their analytics factories faster and accelerate their data science initiatives by simplifying app modernization, improving data and model collaboration, enhancing policy management, and delivering out of the box run-time security. These advancements are outlined in the following sections of this document. 

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform includes technical innovations from Hewlett Packard Enterprise following the acquisitions of BlueData and MapR, together with open source Kubernetes for orchestration. BlueData has a proven track record of deploying non-cloud-native AI and Analytics applications in containers, while MapR brings a state-of-the-art file system and data fabric for persistent container storage.  With the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, enterprises can now extend the agility and efficiency benefits of containers to more of their enterprise applications-running on either bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, either on-premises, in multiple public clouds, or at the edge.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform architecture consists of the following new components with the version 5.3 release:

• Apache Spark 3.0 integration - We've expanded our capabilities and support of the most popular open-source data analytics and engineering offering.  With Apache Spark operator natively integrated, we now allow our clients to better leverage GPUs and directly access data from S3. With Livy integration, we enable users to simplify job submission from external locations like a Juypter notebook or terminal. Users can also leverage the Airflow workflow engine to manage data processing and data science pipelines.
•  Simplified ML Ops collaboration for multi-tenant environments - With out-of-the-box MLFlow integration, we now have a global shared common metadata store with experimentation and model management capabilities.  Global shared repository enables sharing of model metadata and related artifacts across tenants. In addition to the ability to share metadata across tenants, we've also added global data sharing allowing data to be shared across tenants.
• Simplified App Modernization - The new version of the App Workbench makes it even easier to bring your own Kubernetes application.  Using an enhanced GUI you can create your own custom images with just a few clicks.  Additionally, our HPE Ezmeral Ecosystem program is live with 16 new HPE Ezmeral validated ISVs to streamline the addition of new applications.
• Simplified policy management - Our centralized policy management allows clients to adhere to corporate standard policies with the OPA (Open Policy Agent) rule engine and apply the policies across tenants and clusters.  We've also added policy drift management which automatically detects and reports out of compliance clusters.
•  Runtime Security out of the box with Ezmeral - Falco integration provides anti-virus-like security management for runtime containers.

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5.3 capabilities above build upon the new components delivered in the previous 5.x releases:

• Multi-cluster Kubernetes management - Fast, easy deployment, management, and monitoring of Kubernetes clusters with out-of-the-box configuration of networking, load balancing, and storage
• Hybrid deployments - The ability to deploy on any infrastructure-on-premises, in multiple public clouds, or on the edge
• Pre-integrated with persistent container storage - Pre-integrated, scale-out, edge-ready persistent storage with HPE Data Fabric. HPE Ezmeral Container Platform's DataTap and FSMount features provide connectivity to external data without copying data locally.
• 100% open-source Kubernetes - With innovations from HPE Ezmeral Container Platform such as KubeDirector-an open-source Kubernetes-based controller to deploy non-cloud-native apps.
• Enterprise-grade security and control - Integrations into enterprise security and authentication services with support for high availability, fault tolerance, and resiliency for mission-critical enterprise applications
• 1-click provisioning - App Store of curated, prebuilt images for a wide range of applications including machine learning (ML), analytics,  IoT/ edge, CI/CD, and application modernization External Kubernetes Cluster Management - Offers the ability for the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform to manage external Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EKS, Google Anthos (GKE), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), VMware Tanzu PKS, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) K8s, in addition to clusters deployed on-premises.   This new functionality is provided via new SKUs (listed in the subscription section of this QS), that must be purchased in addition to the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.

- Adding External Clusters - Once an external cluster is imported, new workloads may be deployed (e.g. KD Apps, Helm, YAML apps), just as they would be deployed on local clusters.

• Istio Service Mesh - Modern applications are built for modularity, portability and scale, using micro-services. However the growth of micro-services introduces several challenges, including secure communication between services, traffic routing, tracing, monitoring and troubleshooting performance.  Istio is a popular service mesh that enables connectivity, security, control, and the ability to observe services.  Istio enables many use cases, including traffic management between and across versions of services, to securely authenticate service end points, load balancing, collection of monitoring and other useful metrics to track the performance bottlenecks.  Istio will be enabled out of the box.

• ML Ops on Kubernetes - HPE Ezmeral ML Ops brings the power of Kubernetes pods and Docker containers to the entire machine learning lifecycle to allow you to build, train, deploy, and monitor machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models. HPE Ezmeral ML Ops supports sandbox development (notebooks), distributed training, and the deployment and monitoring of trained models in production. Project repository, source control, and model registry features allow seamless collaboration.  With the 5.2 Release, all ML Ops capabilities are supported on Kubernetes.
• Data Fabric on Kubernetes -The HPE Data Fabric for Kubernetes provides the ability to run HPE Data Fabric services on top of Kubernetes as a set of pods. It allows you to create Data Platform Clusters for storing data and Tenants for running Spark jobs inside pods. This release contains both containerized versions of the Data Platform Cluster components and containerized versions of the Tenant application. If you install both the Tenant components and the Data Platform Cluster components, the HPE Data Fabric Platform runs as a fully native Kubernetes application.SLES Support (Service Pack 2) - HPE Ezmeral Container Platform runs on the following version of the SLES Linux operating system:  SLES Linux Enterprise Server v15 SP2

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform will also continue to deliver the following functionality originally provided with the BlueData EPIC platform:

• Containers provide the core runtime abstraction for the user applications. These containers provide isolation between user applications and the rest of the infrastructure. The containers are based on Docker.
• The Resource Management and Orchestration Layer is the core operational component in the system. This layer is responsible for allocating resources to applications, and creating and monitoring container instances to execute those applications. In EPIC, container instances are referred to as virtual nodes. Elastic Plane provides the operational interface to this layer.
• Tenants are an abstraction that provide multi-tenancy capabilities by grouping container instances. Containers associated with a tenant are isolated from other tenants at the network, compute, and storage levels.
• IOBoost is a feature that ensures performance comparable to bare metal in a containerized environment.
• The Virtual Network Layer is responsible for dynamically assigning network addresses to container instances, supporting tenant isolation at the network level, and managing connectivity between container instances and external networks. 
• Node Storage provides local storage for a container instance while it is running. This storage is ephemeral, and is removed when a container instance completes.
• DataTaps provide access to remote storage for containers.  DataTaps are associated with a tenant, so multiple applications and containers can share a DataTap while the DataTap is isolated from other tenants.
• Tenant Storage is a DataTap that provides persistent shared storage accessible by all nodes within a given tenant. The underlying filesystem utilizes HPE Data Fabric, but is also compatible with HDFS and the physical storage is allocated from the Storage Infrastructure.
• NFS access to remote storage is available through NFS DataTaps and FSMounts.

 For more information about the HPE Apollo Systems for HPE Ezmeral Container platform, refer to the QuickSpecs at:

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00062186enw

For more information about the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops software, refer to the QuickSpecs at:

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00067742enw

Benefits

Bring the speed and efficiency of containers to both cloud-native and non-cloud native apps

• A turnkey solution that brings consistent processes and common services to both cloud-native and non-cloud native apps
• Delivers improved agility, increased efficiency, and a cloud-like experience to non-cloud-native apps - without re-architecting them
• Offers greater parity for application developers working with monolithic non cloud-native apps
• Uses 100% open source upstream Kubernetes (K8s), combined with unique HPE IP (original BlueData and MapR innovations) in an integrated software solution
• Provides a common container platform for a wide range of use cases across your IT estate: including AI / ML, Analytics, IoT, CI/CD and App Modernization

Lower costs with bare-metal containers and reduces risk with enterprise grade security

• Provide an integrated container platform with Kubernetes that addresses networking, load balancing, storage, security, and access controls
• Eliminate the cost and performance overhead of virtualization "tax", with bare metal containers
• Reduce infrastructure costs with bare-metal containers, by increasing resource utilization
• Ensure multi-tenant security isolation, with AD/LDAP integration and authentication Improve efficiency through compute / storage separation - with containerized compute services and secure access to a shared data fabric
• Support high availability, fault tolerance, and resiliency for enterprise workloads Enable governance and control with management consoles for operations, configuration, and monitoring

Deliver new code releases faster with one-click container deployment

• Boost developer productivity with a simplified self-service experience and one-click deployment
• Quickly deploy multiple open source K8s clusters and multiple K8s versions, with no modification to native K8s experience
• Automation and lifecycle management to easily create and reproduce Kubernetes clusters
• Instantly spin up test, dev, and production environments with out-of-the-box templates for cloud native and non-cloud-native apps

Build once and run anywhere providing hybrid cloud portability

• A unified control plane to rapidly build and deploy applications anywhere - in your data center, on any public cloud, and at the edge.
• Leverages portability of containers to run on any infrastructure (HPE or non-HPE) and any public cloud
• Supports container deployments on bare-metal, VMs, or cloud instances
• Edge ready, for distributed applications at the enterprise edge. Mitigates data gravity and latency issues, by enabling app development near the data
• Reduces friction to move apps and data, and eliminates data egress from public cloud costs

The Data Platform Cluster as part of the HPE Data Fabric for Kubernetes provides the following benefits

• Independent and elastic scaling of storage and compute
• Ability to run different versions of Spark applications using the same data platform
• Deployment of multiple environments with resource isolation and sharing as required 

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform continues to provide all the benefits found in BlueData EPIC

Data Access from Any Storage

With HPE Ezmeral Container Platform's DataTap capability, you can access data from any shared storage system (including HDFS as well as NFS) or cloud storage (e.g. Amazon S3). This means you don't need to make multiple copies of data or move data, before running your analysis. Sensitive data can stay in your secure storage system with enterprise-grade data governance, without the cost and risks of creating and maintaining multiple copies or moving large-scale data.

Secure Multi-Tenancy

Different project teams, groups, or departments across the enterprise can share the same infrastructure-and access the same data sources-for their AI and Big Data analytics workloads. HPE Ezmeral Container Platform provides multi-tenancy and data isolation to ensure logical separation between each project, group, or department within the organization. The platform integrates with enterprise security and authentication mechanisms such as LDAP, Active Directory and Kerberos and when deployed on the highly secure HPE Apollo systems provides a best in class secure environment for deploying Big Data solutions

Flexible App Store

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform includes an "App Store" for common Analytics / Machine Learning / Deep Learning tools, distributed computing frameworks, and data science notebooks. Open source distributions for Spark, Kafka, and other frameworks as well as representative Machine Learning and Analytics applications  - are provided as pre-configured Docker images in the App Store and available via one-click deployment. A "bring your own app" model is also supported allowing our customers to create their own Docker images using HPE Ezmeral Container Platform templates. 

Several applications come pre-configured in the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform App Store and can be installed via one-click deployment to accelerate time to business value. These sample Docker images provide a particular version and starting configuration for popular distributions, applications, and tools.  With our App Workbench, you can populate your App Store with images for other versions and additional tools.

New Benefits Summary

• Greater Flexibility - unified platform for orchestration of cloud-native and non-cloud-native applications on-premises, in any public cloud, and at the edge
• Boost productivity - Delivers a self-service experience through a curated App Store of prebuilt application images. Streamlined deployment and management for a wide range of use cases including application modernization, AI/ML, analytics, IoT, and CI/CD
• Reduced risk - Enterprise-class security with integrations into enterprise security and authentication services. In-place access to enterprise data sources without creating data copies
• Reduced cost - Lower total cost of ownership with reduced admin overhead and elimination of virtualization tax with bare-metal containerization
• Improved ROI - Improves utilization of hardware resources and provides a cloud-like experience for non-cloud-native monolithic applications, which increases the return on hardware investment 

For more information about the HPE Apollo Systems for HPE Ezmeral Container platform, refer to the QuickSpecs at:

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00062186enw

For more information about the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops software, refer to the QuickSpecs at:

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00067742enw

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HPE Ezmeral support is standard covered by HPE Pointnext Tech Care Essentials, providing 24x7 global support coverage.  

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HPE Pointnext Complete Care Expert on Demand

An optional solution block of HPE Pointnext Complete Care service or as a service that can also be purchased standalone using HPE Service Credits. 

This service feature is designed to amplify the HPE Pointnext Complete Care support experience by providing an HPE Expert on Demand to enhance the Customer's operational support experience and achieve operational excellence in the HPE Ezmeral platform. 

The Customer is required to have HPE Complete Care support coverage for HPE Ezmeral platform to be eligible for the lifecycle management feature of this service. 

Customers who do not have HPE Complete Care coverage can purchase the service standalone through HPE Service Credits combined with an active HPE Ezmeral software support contract. 

Customers that have existing HPE Complete Care service coverage or existing HPE Service Credits, can use the reactive support engagement process to review and triage what is required to perform the operational task as requested by the Customer. 

Customers that consume HPE Expert on Demand standalone would need to purchase HPE Service Credits and redeem them prior to engaging HPE Support for Service Delivery. 

Any of the following components would be required to obtain HPE Expert on Demand service:

• HPE Pointnext Complete Care Expert on Demand-Ezmeral service (SKU#HU7Q9AC) + Proactive Options (SKU#H2T05AC)
• HPE Service Credit Service 30 Credits service: H0JD5Ax (x is the years of service life)
• HPE Service Credit Service 10 Credits service: H0JD4Ax (x is the years of service life) 

Learn more at: hpe.com/services/CompleteCare and hpe.com/services/ExpertOnDemand

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HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Deployment and Integration Services

Notes: The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Deployment and Integration Services listed in this section cover both the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Software and the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops Software.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Service

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Deployment & Integration Services coordinates the app images planning, design, development, configuration and validation of the customers new to HPE Ezmeral Container Platform solution.  This service is delivered both remotely and on-site and is designed to help the customer quickly leverage the features and benefits of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.  When the customer purchases this service, an HPE Ezmeral Container Platform services specialist is assigned to work with them to help deploy and integrate their new HPE Ezmeral Container Platform product with the Customer's IT infrastructure. In addition, the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform services specialist also works with the customer to provide valuable knowledge transfer that can help them quickly take ownership of the new HPE Ezmeral Container Platform solution.   Information on the service features available under these advisory and professional services from HPE Pointnext Services.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Service Offerings

The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Deployment and Integration Services listed in this section cover both the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Software and the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops Software:

• Service planning
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform QuickStart configuration service
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Essential configuration service  
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Advanced configuration service  
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Premium configuration service
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform App store development service  
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Single image development service 
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Tailored image development service 
• HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Custom Consulting Service

Service Planning

Service planning is delivered remotely and is designed to provide the Customer with a detailed plan and schedule for the delivery of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Services.  During service planning, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will conduct remotely delivered service planning meetings with the Customers designated stakeholders to communicate the list of service activities and confirm that all pre-deployment prerequisites have been addressed. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will create a mutually agreeable project plan and schedule, and determine the appropriate mix of technical and business resources necessary to implement the project. As part of service planning, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will facilitate a big-data and data analytics workshop for each of the service options chosen. The workshop is designed to help determine and document the scope and requirements of the desired Use Case, its images and its operations.   This is not a discrete saleable service but is offered as a prelude to the following service offerings.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform QuickStart Configuration Service (HGOU6A1)

Provides a requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform with up to 1 single app images and up to 120 subscription SKUs.  This service begins with the HPE facilitated big data analytics requirements workshop.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Essential Configuration Service (HU1E1A1)

Provides a requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform with up to 2 single app images and for more than 120 subscription SKUs and up to 240 subscription SKUs.  This service begins with the HPE facilitated big data and data analytics requirements workshop. 

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Advanced Configuration Service  (HU1E2A1)

Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform with up to 4 single app images for more than 240 subscription SKUs and up to 480 subscription SKUs.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Premium Configuration Service  (HU1E3A1)

Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform with up to 6 single app images and 1-tailored app image for more than 480 subscription SKUs and up to 1200 subscription SKUs.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Custom Build Service  (HU1E7A1)

Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform for over 1200 subscription SKUs.

 As part of any of these three respective configuration services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will:

• Review and ensure the readiness of the necessary infrastructure for the deployment of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform
• Install and configure the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform
• Install and configure Application Workbench
• Perform functionality testing all components.
• Create all Big Data applications images as agreed during the workshop
• Provide knowledge transfer to Customer stakeholders throughout delivery of the Service, which includes an overview of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, algorithm development and testing, Big Data tools, and application of those solutions to the Customers business. 

Upon completion of the Service, the Customer will have a fully functional HPE Ezmeral Container Platform environment to manage the Big Data workload associated to the agreed Use Case.  The following Deliverables will be provided to Customer in either hard or soft-copy depending on the Customers' requirements:

• Solution Requirements Document
• Solution Architecture Document
• Solution Deployment Plan
• Functional Test Plan
• Knowledge Transfer Plan
• Project Executive Summary

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform App Store Development Service  (HU1E4A1)

Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform app store.  

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Single Image Development Service  (HU1E5A1)

This service is designed to add-on as single image to the Customers app-store.  Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration for a HPE Ezmeral Container Platform single image solution.   

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Tailored Image Development Service  (HU1E6A1)

Provides requirements assessment, solution development, design validation and configuration of an incremental HPE Ezmeral Container Platform tailored image solution.  

As a prerequisite to these three development services, the customer must purchase either the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Essential, Advanced or Premium configuration service if it is a new cluster subscription and deployment.  These respective configuration services are not a prerequisite if it is an expansion of an existing cluster subscription, or a repurchase of an existing subscription.  During the delivery of this service Hewlett Packard Enterprise will:

• Conduct a Planning Workshop ("Workshop") to assess the Customer's Containerization, AI/ML, and Big Data Analytics requirements.
• Determine and document the scope and requirements of the desired Use Cases, its images and its operations. Scope areas are, but not limited to:

- Image Class definition

- Data Ingestion

- Data Storage

- Data Processing + Machine Learning

- View or Output

- Business and Technical outcomes

• Assess the Customer's Analytics infrastructure, security policies and data governance models
• Create the App Store Image Design Document and Functional Testing Plan
• Develop and test the Application Images
• Deploy and test all aspects of the Application Cluster orchestration lifecycle

Upon completion of the Service the Customers will have fully functional Application Images associated to the agreed Use Case.

The following Deliverables will be provided to Customer in either hard or soft-copy depending on the Customer's requirements:

• Application Images Solution Requirements Document
• Application Images Design Document
• Functional Test Plan
• Project Executive Summary

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Knowledge Transfer

To close out the Development and Configuration for the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform specialist will present the Customer with final documentation. Using the final documentation, the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform specialist will also provide a knowledge transfer session to the appropriate Customer stakeholders

The activities associated with this service may include:

• Facilitating a knowledge transfer session to transfer of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform operational control to the Customer including:
• Provide an overview of the completed implementation, including the broad steps taken to achieve the implementation together with the functionality of the deployment
• Provide operational tips specific to HPE Ezmeral Container Platform such as user guides, cookbooks, best practices
• Updated design documents if applicable
• Provide examples of the use of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform functionality as applicable
• Describe examples of expansion possibilities or additional migration advantages
• Final  validation that your HPE Ezmeral Container Platform environment is fully commissioned and operational
• Evaluate results against pre-defined objectives and determine next steps.

Ordering Information

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Select Subscription Options

These HPE Ezmeral Container Platform "Select" subscriptions may only be configured and ordered with the HPE Select Servers, which includes the Apollo 2600 supporting the XL170r and XL190r server cartridges, the Apollo 6500 with XL270d, Apollo 4200, Synergy 480, EdgeLine 4000 and 8000 systems.  Customers who are intent on deploying the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform on other HPE or non-HPE hardware platforms must order the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Universal subscription.

Description

SKU

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Select SKU

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 1-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T44AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 1-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T45AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 2-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T46AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 2-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T47AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 3-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T48AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 3-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T49AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 4-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T50AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 4-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T51AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T52AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T53AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops Select SKU Description

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 1-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T64AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 1-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T65AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 2-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T66AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 2-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T67AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 3-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T68AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 3-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T69AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 4-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T70AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 4-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T71AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 5-year Select Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T72AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 5-year Select Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T73AAE

Option Codes

An option code should be specified when ordering any HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Software, including both Select and Universal subscriptions.   The option code specifies how the subscription will be deployed in the customer's environment

Option Code Description

Option Code

New Cluster Installation (New HPE Ezmeral Container Platform cluster)

#001

Expansion of Existing Cluster (Expanding an existing HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, HPE Ezmeral Container Platform cluster or ML Ops Cluster with more cores or servers)

#002

Renewal of Existing Cluster (Repurchase of existing BlueData EPIC, ML Ops or HPE  Container Platform Subscription)

#003

Notes:

- Each subscription SKU includes a term license to use on one core with up to 2 terabytes of Ezmeral file storage per core, plus the associated support with 24x7 or 9x5 coverage, for a term of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years. For the duration of the term, the customer has rights to new versions of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.

- The number of cores is counted as the number of logical cores presented to the product guest OS. For licensing purposes, the number of cores on a given HPE Ezmeral Container Platform host is the number of unique cores available to the kernel in the OS on which the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform software is directly installed, regardless of the number of threads in each core. It equals the product of Core(s) per socket and socket(s), as shown in the output of the lscpu command. This applies whether the OS is running directly on a bare metal host, or a virtual machine. Hyperthreading in the OS is ignored. For VM licenses (On-Premise and Cloud), CPU hyperthreading is not relevant to license calculation.

- All servers, virtual and physical, require licensing with the exception of Container Platform Gateways

- A customer shall be able to order up to 30% more subscription SKUs than "Select" building block physical CPU cores at the time of purchasing the Select building block SKUs. These additional subscription SKUs can only be deployed in a hybrid cloud cluster with the Select building blocks.

Notes:

- If the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform for Select or Universal subscription SKU is selected, then the following end user (entity that will own/utilize the subscription) are required to provide the following information in order to receive the electronic license from HPE license services:

o End User Company Name

o End User Company Address  (please include the full address: street name, number, city, state, and zip code)

o End User Customer contact name

o End User Email Address

o Reseller Name and Address

o Distributor Name and Address

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Universal Subscription Options

In contrast to the HPE Container Select subscriptions, these universal Subscription SKUs can be deployed and shall be supported without restrictions on any server or virtual machine that meets the minimum hardware and operating system requirements (both HPE and non HPE), on any of the validated public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure), and in any typology with the minimum number of nodes per cluster. 

Each universal subscription SKUs includes a term license to use one core CPU as described above plus the associated support with 24x7 or 9x5 coverage, for a term of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years. For the duration of the term, the customer has rights to new versions of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.

Description

SKU

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Universal

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 1-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T54AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 1-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T55AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 2-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T56AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 2-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T57AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 3-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T58AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 3-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T59AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 4-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T60AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 4-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T61AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T62AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T63AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops Universal

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 1-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T74AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 1-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T75AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 2-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T76AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 2-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T77AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 3-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T78AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 3-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T79AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 4-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T80AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 4-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T81AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 5-year Universal Subscription 24x7 Support E-LTU

R4T82AAE

HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops 5-year Universal Subscription 9x5 Support E-LTU

R4T83AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Manager Subscriptions

HPE Ezmeral External Kubernetes Cluster Management offers the ability for the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform to manage external Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EKS, Google Anthos (GKE), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), VMware Tanzu PKS, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) K8s, in addition to clusters deployed on-premises.  These may be used with Select or Universal Subscriptions, for both the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Subscriptions and the HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops Subscriptions. 

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Clusters spun up externally are registered and managed by HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.  These are add-on SKUs with the pre-requisite of having the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform or HPE Ezmeral ML Ops installed.  The External K8s Cluster Manager will be charged per cluster per year, 24x7 support (there is no 9x5 license) and 1 to 5 year subscriptions, as shown below. Customers can purchase the quantity of subscriptions required to meet their needs.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Manager Subscriptions

Description

SKU

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Management 1-year 24x7 Support E-LTU

R6Q88AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Management 2-year 24x7 Support E-LTU

R6Q89AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Management 3-year 24x7 Support E-LTU

R6Q90AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Management 4-year 24x7 Support E-LTU

R6Q91AAE

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform External Kubernetes Cluster Management 5-year 24x7 Support E-LTU

R6Q92AAE

Requirements:  Each cluster is a distinct Kubernetes cluster.  ECP must have a minimum of 240 cores installed before installing these SKUs.

PointNext Services and Educational Attach

The following Services and Attach Rules apply equally to both the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops Software as well as the Ezmeral Container Platform Software, even when the SKU description only states "HPE Ezmeral Container Platform".

New Cluster Subscriptions - Services Attach Rules

Optional SKUs Not constrained by the number of SW SKUs (Subscriptions)

Notes:

- Any Qty of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Single Image Development Service (HU1E5A1);

o HPE Ezmeral Container Platform App Store Development Service (1* HU1E4A1) must be ordered with any order of HU1E5A1 on the initial order but is not required for subsequent orders of HU1E5A1

- Any Qty of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Tailored Image Design Service (HU1E6A1)

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