Today’s organizations are continuously seeking new ways to
optimize and accelerate how they work. Virtualization offers
numerous benefits for on-prem and cloud environments, allowing
organizations to consolidate resources, minimize downtime, and
streamline IT management. These outcomes can effectively reduce
operating costs, increase efficiency, enhance security, and much
more. Yet many organizations are looking for an alternative solution.
Some virtualization technology comes with high costs, complexity,
and vendor lock-in issues that can hinder innovation. HPE is on a
mission to change that.
Morpheus Data (recently acquired by HPE) is an award-winning
leader in private and hybrid cloud orchestration, turning both
VMware and kernel-based VM (KVM-based) deployments into
private clouds for hundreds of customers and millions of application
workloads. Now, their technology is powering the new HPE
Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) Software.
HPE Morpheus VME Software is an open virtualization solution that
includes KVM-based hypervisors for running virtualized workloads.
The platform provides a seamless VM provisioning and management
experience with the ability to integrate with VMware® vSphere®,
an enterprise workload engine that allows for the creation,
management, and deployment of VMs. Integrations with IPAM,
DNS, and automation tools enable tedious provisioning steps to be
automated to simplify the provisioning of HPE Morpheus VME and
VMware VMs. This solution provides a user-friendly VM-vending
experience across both stacks. Organizations can easily manage
existing virtualized workloads, streamline VMware deployments, and
re-platform to a new hypervisor.
The acquisition of Morpheus Data enables HPE GreenLake cloud to
further unify and streamline IT operations for users. HPE Morpheus
VME is the first step in utilizing Morpheus across the HPE portfolio
to help reduce costs, eliminate vendor lock-in, and simplify hybrid
IT—while setting the stage for future modernization.
Partnership Value
Accelerating time to value: AMD EPYC™ processors paired with HPE
Morpheus VM Essentials deliver impressive workload performance
and energy efficiency. HPE provides software documentation and
a reference architecture to help you activate, run, and manage
installation/setup to configuring storage and creating custom VM
templates. AMD CPU-based HPE infrastructure can support 2x the
VM density and achieve up to 1.4x higher performance compared to
similar offerings.
Enabling seamless virtualization: Provision and manage both
KVM and VMware-based VMs from a single interface simplifying
virtualization management and reducing costs. IT administrators
can quickly provision VMs using the solution’s intuitive provisioning
wizard or REST API.
Easily managing your virtual environment: Our affordable, enterprisegrade
solution can run as standalone software on existing hardware
or embedded in HPE Private Cloud Solutions and both options are
fully upgradeable to Morpheus cloud management for advanced
functionality.
Leveraging enterprise virtualization features: HPE Morpheus VME
Software enables workload resiliency with high availability to quickly
restart VMs on another physical host in the event of a host failure.
Migrating running VMs from one physical host to another within a
cluster eliminates downtime to improve host utilization or to perform
host maintenance.
Reducing operational costs: The KVM-based hypervisor enables
IT organizations to adopt an affordable virtualization platform for
hosting virtualized workloads. The software integrates with external
storage to take advantage of existing infrastructure investments and
reduce operational overhead. Benefits are significant, including up to
90% savings for migrated workloads and up to 48% lower TCO over
5 years.13, 14 Organizations can also achieve 7:1 consolidation and save
up to 65% in power savings per year.
Customer Benefits
• Reduce complexity of virtualized workloads
• Simplify management of your virtual
environment
• Optimize cost of virtualized infrastructure
• Upgrade your cloud operating model with the
full Morpheus suite
• Streamline your upgrade path with a flexible
consumption model
Key Takeaways
• Self-service application provisioning for a
variety of users
• Fine-grained role-based access control
• Advanced lifecycle and Day 2 automation
• Term-based subscription license priced
competitively on a per-CPU socket basis
• Cloud cost management and optimization
Want a demo or training on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials powered by AMD servers? Just contact us!
