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HPE TecHub EMEA Technical Bulletin

Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA

December 2016

HPE TecHub EMEA Technical Bulletin Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA

Contents

Enterprise Group News

HPE Servers 5

HPE Storage 7

HPE Networking 9

Alliance Partner News 10

Frequently Asked Questions

HPE Servers 13

HPE Storage 14

HPE Networking 16

About HPE TecHub EMEA 18

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Enterprise Group News

Welcome to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Technology and Solutions Summit (HPE TSS)

HPE Technology and Solutions Summit (HPE TSS) is a knowledge transfer event targeting

Presales Consultants and Solution Architects from both HPE and Partners, covering the full

breadth of HPE's product and solution offerings.

At HPE TSS you will understand how the 4 HPE Transformation Areas together enable the

Internet of Things, and how HPE products & services are building the solutions enabling the

digital strategy of our customers.

This training initiative started in 2006 with the intention to train the technical Presales community

in EMEA on product developments and roadmap updates under non-disclosure, to give strategic

insights and allow them to practice and apply their knowledge.

Today, the HPE TSS has become one of the most renowned and biggest technology events

within HPE. You can register for the HPE TSS here.

HPE Servers

Micro Datacenter

A self-contained, modular, software-defined data center

optimized to provide the cloud-enabled, hybrid IT environment of

the future. Incorporates compute, network, storage, and control

automation and has all the protection you need a data center to

have- and it's on wheels. It's a complete - though tiny -

enterprise IT data center that enables the flexibility to deploy

computing where and when you need it while maintaining the

efficiency, security, and control of your corporate data centers.

Brochure | Quick Specs | Video

Windows Server 2016 Safeguard your business, improve your IT efficiency and be ready for the cloud with WS 2016, including these new features:

Just in Time & Just Enough Administration

Windows Defender for malware protection

Enhanced Containers

Stretch Clusters

Rolling Cluster OS upgrades

Encrypted Virtual Machines and Containers

HPE Microsoft Windows Server 2016 OEM Licensing

FAQs

HPE FAQ for Microsoft OEM licensing—Windows

Server

Next Generation Rack and Power Infrastructure Helping servers, storage and networking do more and help your customers go further with their business. HPE Rack and Power Infrastructure

G2 Advanced Series Racks Now with a 10-year warranty, cable management enhancements and biometric security options – among other new features.

QuickSpecs

G2 Basic Series PDUs

Now with a 5-year Warranty, operational capability to 60°C and

integrated cord retention – among other new features. QuickSpecs

Superdome X wins Computerworld IT product of the year in the Czech Republic!

Our team in the Czech Republic reports achieving 1st prize “IT Product COMPUTERWORLD

2016” for Superdome X Gen 9. This award in the hardware category comes from the Czech

entity of COMPUTERWORLD.

NEW HPE CloudSystem 10 on HPE Synergy HPE Synergy with HPE Helion CloudSystem 10 and new hyper-converged enhancements powered by composable technologies help make hybrid IT simple HPE Synergy with HPE Helion CloudSystem 10 gives organizations the ability to operate a single IT environment on-premises that supports both traditional applications and cloud-native applications. With HPE Helion CloudSystem 10, IT operators now have the ability to compose resources in minutes, making it easier for enterprises to migrate from traditional to hybrid IT. Through better management automation and improved infrastructure utilization customers can deliver more effective cloud services at lower cost. HPE Synergy and HPE Helion CloudSystem 10 both incorporate HPE OneView, HPE's infrastructure automation management software, providing the ability to discover, manage and designate infrastructure resources using a single, unified interface. This enables more efficient infrastructure utilization by empowering IT to target the right infrastructure for the right workloads, accelerating development cycles while maintaining control and compliance. In addition, customers can take advantage of the broad ecosystem HPE has developed through the Composable Infrastructure Partner Program. This includes with partnerships based on tools like Chef, Docker, SaltStack and Puppet, as well as traditional partners like Microsoft, VMware, SUSE and Red Hat through integration with the HPE OneView API. HPE Synergy with HPE Helion CloudSystem 10 will be available from HPE and channel and distribution partners in the first quarter of calendar year 2017.

HPE Storage HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20840 named CRN’s 2016 Enterprise Storage Product of the Year.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20840 was rated Product of the Year in over 17 categories in CRN’s survey that netted over 5K responses. HPE 3PAR StoreServ beat Dell EMC Unity, Hitachi A-Series, IBM 9000 and NetApp SolidFire 19210 to capture the top spot. Read more here and share this great news with your customers.

SSMC 3.0 now available

Version 3.0 of the StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) is now available and includes:

VMware VVols support for Storage Container management & VM mapping

Improved usability including the ability to customize the dashboard main menus

Support for migration of periodic Remote Copy groups with 3PAR Federation

Enhanced tutorials and help videos

New System Reporter reports and enhanced compare-by and compare-with reports

The ability to increase the size of the System Reporter data collection volume using the

SSMC

The SSMC can be downloaded from the Software Depot.

Version 1.5 of 3PARInfo now available

3PARInfo is a lightweight utility that installs on a host in order to easily identify the HPE 3PAR

LUNs that are presented to it. The installation is quick and simple and provides much useful

information. It is a great complement to HPE 3PAR Host Explorer which sends host information

to the HPE 3PAR array in order to reduce manual administration. And both 3PARInfo and Host

Explorer are available to your customer free of charge!

Version 1.5 of 3PARInfo makes deployment even easier as it now supports unattended silent

installation and allows your customer to install it remotely on multiple servers at the same time.

This latest release also provides support for additional operating systems: Windows 2016, SuSE

12, and OEL 6.8. You can download 3PARInfo from the HPE Software Depot and can find the

User Guide here.

Peer Motion Utility version 1.6 now available

The HPE 3PAR Peer Motion Utility is a command line utility for migrating a set of volumes

between 3PAR arrays. It can also be used for scripting or the migration of volumes from older

3PAR arrays. Migrations can be triggered for an entire host or a group of volumes. This latest

release includes support for Windows 2016 and additional CLI commands and logging

enhancements. You can get more information and download the software here.

Demartek study validates HPE 3PAR Peer Persistent Checksum technology

3PAR Persistent Checksum is a cool feature that protects data from media or transmission errors

end-to-end. This is becoming even more important as flash arrays are required to handle

thousands of IOPS and Petabytes of data. Demartek tested the effectiveness of Persistent

Checksum by injecting bit errors into a real FC data stream and measuring the impact to

performance. The findings are good news:

HPE 3PAR Persistent Checksum effectively identifies and corrects data integrity issues

in the SAN, preventing potential application impacts

HPE 3PAR Persistent Checksum logic had virtually no impact on the all-flash

performance of the HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 Storage array

Read all the details in the full report, or in the Around the Storage Block blog.

3PAR Thursday on Around the Storage Block blog

Each Thursday, 3PAR team members highlight 3PAR news and announcements as part of our

3PAR Thursday blog series. 3PAR Thursday is featured on Around the Storage Block blog, an

HPE blog dedicated to HPE Storage. In case you missed it, here are the posts from the past

month:

Veeam and HPE Partnership Delivers Data Protection Innovation

HPE 3PAR 3D Cache: Turbocharged Application Acceleration is Here

Flash Forward with the HPE StoreFabric Gen 6 32Gb SAN Portfolio

Flash Now: Cloud Economics Brought On-Prem to the All-Flash Data Center

Discover News: 3PAR disrupts the economics of flash adoption

The 3PAR Architecture Matters: VMware vVols

Data Migration Comparison Shopping: Why Choose HPE 3PAR Online Import

Spotlight on Storage and Infrastructure at Discover London

RMC APIs: Unlocking the Power of 3PAR Flash-Integrated Data Protection for

Developers and ISVs

The Relevance of Data Integrity in the All-Flash Data Center

Are We Looking at Data Storage the Right Way?

New Smart SAN collateral

This new solution brief describes the Smart SAN for 3PAR technology and how it offers a smart,

simplified solution for flash storage deployments associated with Fibre Channel storage area

networks. Also, view and share this Smart SAN for 3PAR video.

Order today – New ebook Flash Forward: Harnessing the Power of Flash Storage

If your customer has not yet made the move to flash storage, this new book from HPE Press is a

must read. Covering flash storage from a practical perspective, it answers critical questions and

is ideal for CTOs, IT managers, project managers, and solution architects at intermediate and

advanced levels. Purchase this book before Dec 31, 2016 and receive 25% off!

HPE Networking News Blogs and Updates:

Top 10 highlights from HPE Discover London (ITWorld Canada) ─ Longtime serial entrepreneur and founder and chairman of Arista, Andy

Bechtolsheim spoke about how Arista’s cloud networking capabilities and HPE’s infrastructure complemented each other. Through an extension, Arista can be used with the OneView dashboard and enable container or virtual machine creation

Expanded Arista-HPE partnership takes on new challenges in the cloud networking space (Silicon Angle)

HPE flexes its supercompute and data center muscles (Silicon Angle)

Interview with Dom Wilde, HPE, Richard Haigh, Paddy Power Betfair & Mark Smith, Arista Networks (theCube | YouTube)

HPE and Arista Video Highlights at Discover

HPE Innovation Ecosystem with Meg Whitman and Andy Bechtolsheim, Arista Founder & Chief Development Officer (YouTube)

The future of Datacenter infrastructure with Alain Andreoli & Mark Smith, SVP, WW Sales Arista (YouTube)

Supercharge your data center with HPE and Arista, Dom Wilde DCIG Spotlight session (YouTube)

HPE Data Center Networking Highlights presented by Dom Wilde (3 min. overview | YouTube)

The Data Center of the Future, Here Today: Technologies from The Machine Program Drive Hybrid Infrastructure Portfolio and Future Innovations (PR)

Taking Composable Infrastructure to the Next Level: HPE Unveils Software-Defined Upgrades to Simplify Hybrid IT (PR)

HPE Extends Composability to Cloud and Hyper-converged Solutions (PR)

New Release of HPE Universal IoT Platform Increases Opportunities for Insights and Innovation (PR)

HPE's Aruba Networks Is Building A Networking Product Line For SMBs Aimed At Competing With Cisco (CRN)

HPE's Aruba Networks Plans To 'Accelerate' Acquisition Strategy Around Software (CRN)

HPE Exec: 'Good Luck' To A Competitor Trying To Get Bigger (CRN) New Licensing Model for Aruba Central From December 5th you will see a new range of licenses for Aruba Central – These will replace the existing license model over time. An SMB solutions webinar for partners recording is available and touches on the new licensing model

Alliance Partners News

Introducing:

Performance Analytics

HPE StoreFabric Gen6 B-series SAN Fiber Channel Developments in latest generation servers are delivering breakthrough performance and virtualization capabilities. At the same time, widespread adoption of flash-based storage and emerging technologies like NVMe are causing the FC SAN fabric to deliver more performance than ever before. The HPE StoreFabric Gen 6 32Gb FC portfolio provides a reliable storage networking foundation for enterprise data centers and private cloud storage that can handle today’s performance requirements while delivering future-proof investment protection.

To help meet that need, we’re introducing the next-generation storage networking portfolio with HPE StoreFabric Gen 6 32Gb FC SAN Director (SN8600B) and switch (SN6600B).

The HPE StoreFabric Gen 6 32Gb portfolio provides greater performance with 32 Gbps links, improved manageability with more granular insights and diagnostics, along with long-term investment protection and lower overall cost of ownership.

Increases performance for demanding workloads across 32 Gbps links

Shatters application performance barriers with up to 1 billion IOPS to support flash-based storage workloads

Reduces latency by up to 20% for high-transaction applications (compared to Gen5)

Increases application response with line-rate performance on every port

Consolidates infrastructure with 128 Gbps Ultra-Scale ICL connectivity

Accelerate data replication and secure data flow over distance with up to 80 Gbps

line-rate speed with HPE SAN Extension blade

HPE Power Pack+ Software and HPE SAN Network Advisor provides SAN administrators with the necessary tools to monitor the health and performance of the network with greater visibility. This now includes the newly introduced IO Insight Software for monitoring IO level information and diagnostics. It obtains I/O latency, response time and IOPS metrics for the storage and server devices to diagnose I/O operational issues to ensure predictable performance and service-levels. In addition, VM Insight software for StoreFabric Gen 6 provides visibility down to the VM level. The portfolio provides better energy efficiency compared to previous generation of products with higher port density reducing the overall cost of ownership. HPE StoreFabric 32Gb Directors and Switches provide connectivity to 8 and 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products. Furthermore, it supports future Fibre Channel technologies such as NVMe and Gen 7-ready storage networking platforms.

For more details about this challenging opportunity check the following links:

HPE StoreFabric SN8600B SAN Director Video

HPE StoreFabric SN6600B Fibre Channel Switch Video

HPE StoreFabric SN6600B Fibre Channel Switch Data Sheet

HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 32 GB SAN Director Data Sheet

HPE StoreFabric SN8600B

HPE StoreFabric SN6600B

Enterprise Group

Frequently Asked Questions

HPE Servers How is licensing changing with Windows Server 2016? The licensing of Datacenter and Standard Edition will shift from processors (Processor + CAL) to physical cores (Cores + CAL). With Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and Standard Edition: All physical cores in the server must be licensed. Servers are licensed based on the number of processor cores in the physical server.

A minimum of sixteen core licenses is required for each server.

A minimum of eight core licenses is required for each physical processor.

Windows Server base licenses from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) cover sixteen

cores, additional licenses for both Standard and Datacenter Editions are available in

packs of two, four, and sixteen cores. Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition will continue to be licensed per server, for platforms with up to two processors and maximum of 25 users or 50 devices. No Windows Server CALs are required. Is it possible to mix power supplies in the c7000 to obtain the right amount of power? Mixing power supplies is not supported. It is only possible, for a short time, and with the purpose of upgrading the power supplies as explained in the HP BladeSystem - Mixing Different Types of Power Supplies in a c7000 Enclosure Is Not Supported.

Is OneView v3 available for Customers? Where can I found the User Guides? Yes, it is already available and can be downloaded at the SW depot. The documentation can be found in this link.

Do HPE Ethernet adapters support NIC Teaming? Currently this is a feature implemented on the OS level. Most Operating Systems supports NIC teaming. NIC teaming used to be implemented in the adapter with specific drivers and software developed by the NICs vendors. Today NIC teaming is a feature enabled in all HPE network adapters that relays on the support by the Operating system.

Is it possible to create more than one RAID volume with the B140 controller?

Yes, the HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i RAID Controller User Guide confirms the support for both RAID levels and up to 10 LUNs or logical volumes.

HPE Storage Does HPE StoreVirtual VSA support NVME PCIe Workload Accelerator cards? Yes, StoreVirtual VSA can virtualize other storage options, such as PCIe-based flash cards, as long as they are supported by the server model and hypervisor. For more information please see the HPE StoreVirtual VSA design and configuration guide.

Please advise what option we have if we need to connect an MSA 2040 with 10GB iSCSI to a 10G BASE-T switch? You can place another switch in between that has both 10GbE SFP+ ports (to the MSA) and 10GbE BASE-T ports (to the other switch). A (3rd party) media converter could also be used. Alternatively, if applicable, you might want to check if direct attach is supported. This is OS dependent and it can be verified in SPOCK (Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HPE

Storage Products) here.

While running linear storage on MSA 2040 we would like to know what happens if you run out of space and no more snapshots can be written?

In linear storage, pointers to source-volume data for snapshots and any unique data written to a snapshot are stored in snap pools. By default, snap pools are configured to automatically expand when they become 90% full. What happens next depends on the policy you set for the snap pool. The default policy for the Critical threshold (when the snap pool is 98% full and data loss is imminent) is: Delete all snapshots. Multiple other options are available to set, please see the

MSA 2040 SMU Guide, chapter Snap pool properties on p.249 for more information.

What are the utilization limits on LeftHand systems? At what utilization limits do you start to notice problems (or warnings)?

According to the 12.6 HPE StoreVirtual Storage User Guide, “When a cluster is over-provisioned, thin provisioning carries the risk that an application server will fail a write if the storage cluster has run out of disk space. The LeftHand OS software adds utilization and over-provisioned events as the cluster approaches 100% utilization. You can add capacity to the cluster or delete unneeded snapshots to accommodate additional volume growth.”

The defaults for warnings are 90% for a warning to the host that storage system space is almost full. Critical default is 95% when no writes can be performed: 12.6 HPE StoreVirtual LeftHand OS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Can you please give us part number of the compact flash card found in our P2000 G3 array? It has failed.

According to this CUSTOMER ADVISORY, if you experience a Compact Flash card failure, HPE recommends replacing the Compact Flash card with part number 768079-001. Is Virtual Fabrics enabled by default within HPE B-series switches?

To use the Virtual Fabrics features, you must first enable Virtual Fabrics on the switch. Enabling Virtual Fabrics creates a single logical switch in the physical chassis. This logical switch is called the default logical switch. The default logical switch initially contains all of the ports in the physical chassis. After you enable Virtual Fabrics, you can create up to seven additional logical switches, depending on the switch model. The default logical switch always exists. You can add and delete other logical switches, but you cannot delete the default logical switch unless you disable Virtual Fabrics. Is 3PAR OS 3.2.2 MU2 supported with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 operating system?

Currently Microsoft Windows Server 2016 machines are only supported with 3PAR OS 3.2.2 MU3. Customers are highly advised to upgrade their HPE StoreServ 3PAR to the latest available 3PAR OS version, this provides robust stability, newer features and above all continuously improve the overall experience. Is there any performance impact from using 3PAR self-encrypting drives? What about in Remote Copy or Peer Persistence configurations?

Please refer to the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Data-At-Rest Encryption white paper. As stated in the White Paper, HPE extensively tested the Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) and compared the performance with non-encrypting drives and found no performance differences for any I/O profile. This is possible because the drives perform the encryption on specialised hardware prior to writing to the media.

When considering the use of SEDs with Remote Copy or Peer Persistence, the same is true – there will be no additional performance impact compared to non-SEDs. Although there is no performance impact, it’s important to consider that 3PAR SEDs provide encryption for “data at rest” only. Data is not encrypted “in flight” as it is replicated between arrays. Additionally, if data must be encrypted on both source and target arrays, both arrays must have SEDs and the encryption license installed. If any of the arrays in the Remote Copy configuration are not encryption-enabled, the data will be stored unencrypted on that array. Can TecHub size and make configurations for the HPE T950 and TFinity ExaScale (Spectra Logic) Tape Libraries?

No, TecHub is not able to create Bills of Materials (BOMs) for the HPE T950 and TFinity ExaScale (Spectra Logic) Tape Libraries.

Quotes for these products must be created with the help of Spectra Logic Sales personnel. To get a BOM for T950 or TFinity parts, follow this process:

1. You must register the deal at this website or via email

2. Spectra Logic will provide a BOM which can be entered directly into HPE's Quoter

3. If custom-labelled media is required, complete the Spectra Custom Barcode Label Order

Form and return it to orderentry@spectralogic.com and the Spectra Sales

Representative from step 1

These steps are MANDATORY to generate valid quotes. Note that all T950 and TFinity parts, media, installation, and support options will be provided by the Spectra Logic partner.

HPE Networking For HPE Aruba Central support subscriptions, can we add together multiple services for extended support periods? For example adding together a 3year and a 5year subscription? The subscription services cannot be added together. The maximum term is 5 years. Upon expiration, they could then purchase the additional 3 year service. Do we support SSH tunnel traversal through the HPE MSR routers? We confirm SSH tunnels are not supported. Could you state the OSPF scalability for HPE 5510 Series Switches? The OSPF sdcalability numbers are: Number of areas: 16 Number of interfaces per area: 1K Number of neighbors per interface: 80 Number of IPv4 routes: 32K Number of IPv6 routes: 16K Can you confirm if Draft-Rosen Multicast VPNs are supported on the HPE 5510HI Series? We confirm this standard is not supported and implemented in HPE 5510HI Series. Can we confirm virtual cable testing (VCT) support on HPE Aruba 2540 Series? We confirm the Aruba 2540 supports VCT - Aruba-2540-24G-4SFP (config) # test cable-diagnostics Can you state the MAC and ARP scalability for the new HPE Aruba 2540 Switch Series? The number of ARP entries on a 2540 switch is 25K while the switch supports up to 16K MAC addresses. Can you confirm if the HPE 10500 Switch Series support DVMRP and Hierarchical DVMRP? DVMRP and HDVMRP are not supported, as they are old multicast routing protocols. We recommend to use PIM. PIM-DM&SM are supported.

About HPE TecHub EMEA

About HPE TecHub EMEA

To all users of our service - please be informed that Office Based Presales (OBP) has been renamed to TecHub EMEA as of November 1st, 2016. This change does not affect our current deliverables, product coverage scope, SLA or language support. Please, note that our email addresses have also changed to reflect the new name. The old OBP mailboxes will remain active until 30.6.2017 to assure a smooth transition. Please start using the TecHub ones listed below: English: TecHub.EMEA.EN@hpe.com

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Czech: TecHub.EMEA.CZ@hpe.com

Russian: TecHub.EMEA.RU@hpe.com In any case, we encourage you to continue using our Web Form, Partner Ready Portal and SFDC

(only HPE Employees) in order to submit a case, which ensures a faster and smoother handling of cases than email. Yours sincerely, TecHub EMEA – Prague

HPE TecHub EMEA is an HPE and Channel Partner presales support centre. Deliverables are provided as addon to the presales support for the Enterprise Group portfolio products:

HPE Servers

HPE Storage

HPE Networking

Care Pack and warranty questions

Rack and Power

All related to Enterprise Group software

HPE TecHub EMEA is an exclusive service for HPE Platinum, Gold and Silver Partners as well as Distributors, Corporate, Enterprise Accounts and the HPE community.

HPE TecHub EMEA has various deliverables, some of which can be engaged through:

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