HPE Network Orchestrator: технические характеристики и документация

HPE Network Orchestrator

Storage Area Networks and the tools that are used to manage them have become increasingly complex. Because of this, SAN administrators spend more time learning multiple SAN tools and in labor intensive configuration tasks - tedious manual activities which can potentially result in unplanned downtime. The reasons for the complexity include the increased adoption of Virtualization - a complexity stemming from mapping the virtual and physical layers of the SAN and the adoption of multiple protocols such as iSCSI along with Fibre Channel. 

HPE Network Orchestrator modernizes the storage network enabling businesses to increase productivity, scale and improve the efficiency of their storage investments. SAN configurations are often tedious and prone to human-error and frequently in multi-protocol environments. Delivering automation, orchestration and fabric services empowers administrators to provision storage error-free and arrange fabric services for increasing fabric resiliency. HPE Network Orchestrator delivers fabric configuration validation using Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK). This storage network architecture, provided in a self-contained virtual machine assesses the health of physical ports with self-healing, fabric monitoring, while performing end-to-end diagnostics, using predefined templates to reduce configuration errors.

Models

Description

SKU

HPE Network Orchestrator E-LTU

Q9Y41AAE

HPE Network Orchestrator Enterprise E-LTU

R0H75AAE

HPE Network Orchestrator Enterprise Upgrade E-LTU

R0H76AAE

Features 

Easy availability

• HPE Network Orchestrator is available with Linux-based Open Virtual Appliance (OVA).
• Easily deployable on VMware or a Windows hypervisor.
• Easy migration from prior releases

Improve Customer Experience with fine-grain visibility

• The HPE Network Orchestrator provides ease of configuration, monitoring and zero-errors.
• Fine-grain visibility into Storage Fabrics (FC + Ethernet).
• Predictive Fabrics, Self-Healing Networking.
• Automate SPOCK validation.
• Manipulation of resources through REST APIs.

Orchestrate Fabric Services Across Multi-protocols

• The HPE Network Orchestrator arranges and monitors end-to-end multi-protocol fabrics with HPE Storage family of products to increase fabric up time, resiliency and predictability.
• Predefined and custom templates enables fabric configuration consistency and repeatability.
• Quickly generate templates that are pre-configured and/or customized configurations, which can apply to manage elements on specific devices thereby reducing human-error while facilitating sharing of best practices.
• Pre-defined templates also available for HPE Complete partner products to assist in partner product environment configuration.

SAN Pre-deployment Verification With HPE SPOCK Assurance

• The HPE Network Orchestrator validates the integrity, interoperability, and compliance of Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage, servers and network fabric infrastructures before or during deployment.
• Keep the SAN and fabric infrastructure in ideal health by making informed decisions with better supportability and predictability.
• Assess, report and remedy for improved fabric health.

Visualize Managed Elements of the Fabric End-to-end

• The HPE Network Orchestrator allows the administrator to understand what devices are connected end-to-end and view fabric visibility while launching a sequence of steps to create the topology view of the managed elements.
• Discover managed elements including: HPE Storage, HPE M-series Ethernet switches, HPE B-series Fibre Channel switches, HPE C-Series Fibre Channel switches, HPE Complete partner products, qualified 3rd party Ethernet switches, adapters (HBAs, NICs, CNAs), cables and optical transceivers. You can refer to the SFO SPOCK document for a complete list of compatible products.
• Monitoring of device health and link status of Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters installed in HPE servers running iLO5.

End-to-end Monitoring With Self-healing Capabilities

• The HPE Network Orchestrator monitors activities and generates events for action, auditing and reporting.
• Administrators can monitor various parameters end-to-end to make informed decisions based on alerts with other fabric services to remedy a situation. Delivering an easy way for administrators to be altered about storage networking issues.
• Builds on the basic diagnostic ready fabric capabilities with advanced diagnostic assessment to monitor and quickly identify states of physical ports for root cause analysis, failure impact assessment and self-healing for improved performance.

Notes: Since Brocade has EOL'ed BNA, NetO will provide support for new HPE B-series switches through FOS (Fabric Operating System). Existing B-series/BNA customers can migrate to B-series/FOS. However, NetO permits the coexistence of both B-series/FOS and B-series/BNA but both cannot be used to manage the same switches at the same time.

Software Licensing 

HPE Network Orchestrator Evaluation

Network Orchestrator comes with 120 days of evaluation. During these 120 days, all the features of the NetO will be available. 

• HPE Network Orchestrator Base E-LTU

Notes: User to apply this license for up to 6 switches in the fabric.

• HPE Network Orchestrator Upgrade E-LTU

Notes: If the user had applied the license for up to 6 switches but now have added more than 6 switch, then user should apply upgrade switch LTU license.

• HPE Network Orchestrator Enterprise E-LTU

Notes: If the user has more than 6 switches, then user should apply unlimited enterprise switch LTU license.

How to download Network Orchestrator Software?

Network Orchestrator can be downloaded from HPE Software Depot web portal.

https://h20392.www2.hpe.com/portal/swdepot/index.do

Support Matrix

For detailed and the most current interoperability information and supporting documentation, refer to the comprehensive Support Matrix at http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Installer Support Matrix:

For detailed and the most current installer support matrix, refer to the comprehensive Support Matrix at

http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Software Technical Support and Update Service

HPE Network Orchestrator (NetO) software products include three years of 9x5 HPE Software Technical Support and Update Service. This service is available 9 hours per day between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time, Monday through Friday excluding HPE holidays. The service provides access to HPE technical resources for assistance in resolving software operations issues, and, also provides access to software updates and reference manuals in electronic form.

Notes: HPE Network Orchestrator (NetO) software is customer installable.

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