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Table of contents

HPE VM Essentials introduction

Architecture
Requirements
Networking
Installation and deployment
Storage
VMware® vSphere® integration
Virtual machine management
Task automation

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HPE VM Essentials Software
introduction

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 • Reduce costs with HPE VM
Essentials integrated
hypervisor
Announcing • Simplify management
HPE VM across VMware and HPE
clusters
Essentials • Future-proof IT with flexible

Software consumption & upgrade

paths
• Lower risk with enterprise-
grade support & ecosystem
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NEW: HPE VM Essentials Software to unify VMware &
HPE VME hypervisor
• Reduce costs with HPE VM Essentials
integrated hypervisor
Featuring core capabilities to diversity VM estates including
storage optionality (local, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel),
distributed workload placement, VM HA and live migration,
data protection via snapshots and native backup, and DR with
Zerto*

• Simplify management across VMware and HPE

Connect existing VMWare® clusters for management and VM-
vending into ESXi and HPE VME hypervisor from one interface.
Also includes IPAM and DNS integration, automation execution,
secrets management, and VMWare to KVM image conversion

• Future-proof IT with flexible consumption &

upgrade paths
Available as standalone software and integrated into HPE
Private Cloud. Customers can upgrade to full Morpheus
PlatformOps for hybrid cloud management, K8s support,
governance, and FinOps capabilities
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• Lower risk with enterprise-grade support & 6
Solution overview

HPE VM Essentials
Basic provisioning
Virtual machine IPAM & DNS Secrets
& task
provisioning orchestration management
automation

HPE VM Essentials manager

HPE VM Essentials hypervisor VMware vSphere

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HPE VM Essentials

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HPE
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manag er VM
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HPE VME node 1 HPE VME node 2 vSphere node 1 vSphere node 2
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VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

HPE VME node 3 … HPE VME node N vSphere node 3 … vSphere node N

HPE VM Essentials cluster VMware vSphere cluster

HPE datastores & virtual vSphere datastores &

disks virtual disks
Shared HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

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Architecture

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Theory of operation - logical architecture
HPE ProLiant • HPE VM Essentials hypervisor has been
validated on HPE Proliant Gen11 series servers
Gen11 servers
• The base OS for the HPE VM Essentials
hypervisor is Ubuntu 22.04. The installation of
Ubuntu Ubuntu is a requirement for deployment of the
hypervisor HPE VM Essentials manager
• The software that runs on each host to collect
VM Essentials system stats, logs, and execute operations
agent received from VME manager
HPE VM Essentials hypervisor
• Underlying virtualization technology used in
KVM HPE VM Essentials Libvir QEM Ov
KVM PCS
t U S
• Generic machine emulator and virtualizer for
QEMU running Windows and Linux operating systems

VM Essentials agent
• A hypervisor-independent API for managing
Libvirt platform virtualization

Open vSwitch • Underlying virtual networking technology

Ubuntu 22.04
used in HPE VM Essentials
(OvS)
Pacemaker • A high-availability cluster resource manager, HPE Proliant Gen11
that enables clustering and clustered
cluster service filesystem deployment and management
HPE VM • The management server that provides KVM
clustering, identity management, VM
Essentials provisioning, monitoring, logging, web HTML 5
manager UI, and more, running as a VM in the stack

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Theory of operation - logical architecture
• Manager deployment:
 HPE VM Essentials manager runs
on a single node
• Local storage deployment:
 OS, VM Essentials agent, and HPE VM
VME hypervisor elements Essentials
operate from local storage
• VM hosting: manager
 VMs can be hosted on: HPE VM Essentials HPE VM Essentials HPE VM Essentials
• Local datastores hypervisor hypervisor hypervisor
• Shared datastores QEM Libvi QEM Libvi QEM Libvi
• Storage types: U rt U rt U rt
KV Ov PC KV Ov PC KV Ov PC
 Local storage: M S S M S S M S S
• Local disk directory pool VM Essentials VM Essentials VM Essentials
 Converged storage: agent agent agent
• Uses CEPH Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 HPE Alletra
Storage MP
 Shared storage: B10000
• Supported via NFS, iSCSI, or FC
 Enhanced storage integration:
• Optimized with HPE Alletra HPE ProLiant HPE ProLiant HPE ProLiant
Storage MP B10000 Gen11 Gen11 Gen11

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Requirements

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Pre-requisites
• Prior to installing HPE VM Essentials:
 Install Ubuntu 22.04 on each host of the cluster
 Patch the Ubuntu OS
 Required: install the hardware enablement version of the
kernel
• Configure host networking
 Set static management IP:
– Recommended: configure more than one interface in bonded
network interface, e.g. bond0
 DNS, NTP, proxy
• Configure any storage networking
• Configure HPE VM Essentials management VM hostname
in DNS
• Minimum node count:
• Local storage or NFS: 1 node
• CEPH, iSCSI, FC: 3 nodes

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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 integration

• HPE VM Essentials supports native

integration with HPE Alletra Storage
MP B10000
• Storage interaction enabled by
HPE ProLiant
storage plugin Gen 11
• VM granular storage management
• Each VM is mapped to its own dedicate
volume
• Enables VM-native granular volume
snapshots and storage management HPE Alletra
Storage MP
• VM granular replication B10000

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Installation and deployment

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HPE VME installation sequence
Install Ubuntu
On all hosts: 22.04
• Install Ubuntu 22.04
 Install the Ubuntu 22.04 base OS on the physical server
Patch operating
• Patch Ubuntu 22.04 OS system
 Update Ubuntu 22.04 with the latest updates and security patches
All hosts
• Install HPE VM Essentials installer package
 Download from My HPE Software Center
Install VME
package
 Install the HPE VM Essentials installer
– The installer sets up KVM, OvS, and other systems packages used to bootstrap an initial virtualization
capability to run VME manager Configure host
• Configure host system system
 Perform the initial system configuration such as configuring networking, storage, NTP, etc.

Deploy HPE
On one host: VME manager
• Deploy HPE VME manager One host
 Use the HPE VME console to deploy the HPE VME manager appliance: Launch HPE
– The deployment process downloads the VME manager QCOW2 image from the designated cloud VME
endpoint and deploys the VM according to the defined configuration manager UI
• Launch HPE VME manager UI
 Launch the HPE VME manager user interface through a web browser:
– https://hpe_vme_manager_ip_address

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Ubuntu - installation
• Install Ubuntu Server 22.04
on all servers
• Install HWE kernel:
 apt install linux-generic-hwe-
22.04
• Update installed system
components:
 apt get update
 apt get upgrade

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Install HPE VM Essentials and configure host
• Download the HPE VM Essentials
ISO from My HPE Software
Center
• Mount the ISO on a host
• Install the hpe-vm.deb package:
 apt install –f /mnt/path/hpe-vm.deb
 Optional: this can be installed on
all nodes to preinstall the HPE
VME console UI, KVM, OvS, libvirt,
QEMU, etc. If not pre-installed on
other nodes, this will run when
the cluster is created within HPE
VM Essentials
• Configure host networking:
 Specific configuration will depend
on requirements and architecture
of deployment

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Install HPE VM Essentials management VM
• Open hpe-vm from the CLI
• Select Install Morpheus
• Specify the following:
 Management VM IP address
 Netmask
 Gateway
 DNS server
 Appliance URL
 Hostname
 Admin credentials
 Path to the appliance QCOW2
image on the ISO mount path
 Management interface:
– If using a separate VLAN for
Compute, the interface and
VLAN can be specified here

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Launch the HPE VM Essentials UI
• Access via the URL set during
appliance deployment:
 https://hpe_vme_manager_ip_address
• Configure the environment and
create the HPE VME cluster:
 First create an infrastructure group
 Create a cloud resource
associated with the infrastructure
group

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Cluster configuration

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HPE VM Essentials cluster deployment
HPE VME
manager
• From the HPE VME UI, a user initiates creation
HPE VME
of a new HPE VME cluster: hypervisor
 Infrastructure -> Clusters -> Add Cluster Ubuntu
 Select HPE VM cluster type 22.04

 Select the created infrastructure group and cloud

• Specify the host names and management IP
HPE VME
addresses of all hosts to add: hypervisor
 All hosts must have the same:
Ubuntu
– Credentials 22.04
– Interface name(s)
• HPE VME manager orchestrates:
 Installation of the HPE VME hypervisor stack on HPE VME
each host specified hypervisor
 Configuration of the compute cluster Ubuntu
22.04

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Post-deployment steps HPE VME
manager
• Configure or adjust network access, if HPE VME
necessary: hypervisor
 Restrict access or configure additional networks
• Provision datastores if desired:
 By default, local storage is configured
 CEPH can optionally be configured during cluster HPE VME
deployment if there is a spare data device on each hypervisor
host
 Supported storage protocols: NFS, iSCSI, FC
• Add ISOs or QCOW2 images to the Virtual
Images library: HPE VME
 Ensure the storage share has been configured in hypervisor

Infrastructure -> Storage

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Storage

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Storage overview
HPE VME
manager
• Datastores are storage for virtual machines and
optionally also virtual images (ISOs, QCOW2, VMDK, HPE VME
etc.) hypervisor
• There are 3 type of datastores supported for hosting Ubuntu
VMs and images: 22.04
 Directory Pool:
– Comprised of local storage on each server
– The same directory path must exist on each node
 NFS: HPE VME
– All nodes must have access to the share hypervisor
 GFS2: Ubuntu
– iSCSI and FC supported 22.04
– Clustered file system orchestrated by the pacemaker cluster
service
– Presented volumes must show with the same name on each host

HPE VME
hypervisor
Ubuntu
22.04

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Storage – local HPE VME
manager
• Local storage on the servers HPE VME
• If not leveraging CEPH: hypervisor
 VMs can be migrated between hosts, which will
result in copying of the VM from one host’s local
storage to the destination host’s local storage
 Note that this is not shared nor HCI-type storage - if HPE VME
hypervisor
a host experiences a disruption, the VMs on that
local storage will no longer be accessible
• By default, there are local directory pools created
upon deployment:
 local HPE VME
hypervisor
 morpheus-cloud-init
 morpheus-images
• Additional directories can be specified:
 The directory path must match on each host and the
amount of available storage should be consistent
across those hosts
• If CEPH was configured on initial cluster
deployment, the local device being used for that
purpose on each host will act as a single large
volume across all hosts:
 Acts as converged storage

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Storage – NFS
HPE VME
• File shares presenting from NAS servers can also manager
be mounted as datastores HPE VME
• Present a share from the server, providing access hypervisor

to all hosts in the cluster

• Within the VME cluster, add a datastore,
specifying the NFS host presenting the share and HPE VME
the share path hypervisor

• This will mount the file share on all hosts within

the cluster
HPE VME
hypervisor

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Storage – GFS2
HPE VME
manager
• Global Filesystem 2 (GFS2) is a clustered
filesystem that is used on shared SAN HPE VME
hypervisor
storage
• iSCSI and Fibre Channel supported at launch
• Volumes are presented from a storage array
to all hosts in a cluster HPE VME
• Note: a volume must appear with the same hypervisor

device name on all hosts in the cluster

• VME manager orchestrates mounting the
device and creation of the filesystem during
HPE VME
datastore creation hypervisor

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Networking

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HPE VM Essentials – networking overview

• Management network
 The network used for managing the
HPE VME hypervisor hosts
• Compute network
 The network used for VM traffic
• Storage network
 The network used to interact with
external storage, such as NFS, iSCSI,
FC

Note:
• Best practice is to have Compute and
Management networks separate
• It is possible to deploy a cluster without
a dedicated Compute network, running
VM traffic over the Management network
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HPE VME VM networking
• VM network interface
 The network interface attached to the VM VM VM

that is visible from within the VM

vNIC vNIC
• Tap interface
 The virtual connection used to connect the
virtual machine to the Open vSwitch Bridge
tap tap
• Open vSwitch port
 The virtual port on the Open vSwitch bridge
that a network interface connects to vnet0 vnet1
• Open vSwitch bridge
 A virtual switch used to connect VMs and the Open vSwitch Bridge Virtual
physical network bond0
• Bonded network interface
 A virtual network interface used to
aggregate multiple physical network
interfaces into a single virtual interface eth0 eth1 Physical
• Physical network interface
 The physical network interface that connects
to the physical network

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VM IP assignment and domain management
• Several options for VM network
management:
 IP addresses assigned via DHCP
 IP addresses assigned from manually
specified network pools within VM
Essentials
 Integration with third-party IPAM and DNS
tools

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 Network integrations
• Two main network integrations:
 IPAM:
– IP Address Management: automates management
and assignment of IP addresses
– Supported IPAM tools:
– phpIPAM, Bluecat, Infoblox, SolarWinds, EfficientIP Solid
Server
 DNS:
– Automates integration with Domain Name Services
– Supported DNS tools:
– PowerDNS, Microsoft DNS

• These help automate the management of

hostnames and IP addresses when deploying
VMs
• Additionally, there is built in IPAM and
domain functionality
• IP pools can be manually specified for assignment to
VMs when deploying.

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VMware integration

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VMware integration overview
• Enables management of existing
vSphere® clusters or datacenters
through the VME UI VMware HPE VME
• Integration functionality: vCenter manager
 Existing VM discovery and
HPE VME
management VMware ESXi
hypervisor
 New VM provisioning and management
• Cloud sync:
 The VMware integration performs a
synchronization to collect information ESXi

about the following resources every 5

minutes: vCenter ESXi HPE VME
manager
– Networks
– Datastores ESXi
– VM Templates
– Virtual Machines
– Resource Pools
– Folders
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VMware integration – adding vSphere environment
• To add a vSphere environment: 1.
2.
 VME UI -> Infrastructure -> Clouds ->
+Add
 Select VMware vCenter as the cloud
type
 Enter vCenter host information and 4.
administrator credentials
 Select which resources in the environment
to manage with VME 3.
 To manage existing virtual machines in
the VMware environment, select Inventory
Existing Instances
 Select additional options if necessary
 Assign to a group and submit

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VMware integration
• The vSphere
environment will show
as a new cloud in
Infrastructure ->
Clouds
• Once added, access to
vSphere networks and
datastores can be
modified

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VMware integration
• If the option to inventory
existing virtual machines
was selected, the VMs in
the selected vSphere
resources will show as
Discovered
• To manage a discovered
VM through the VME
manager UI, select the
VM or VMs and select
Convert to Managed from
Actions

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VMware integration
• Periodic cloud
synchronizations will pull
in changes within
vSphere
• If there is a need to see
those changes
immediately, within the
VMware cloud in VME, a
user can select to initiate
a manual refresh
• Selecting Short refresh
will capture any relevant
infrastructure changes,
such as networks, VMs,
datastores

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VMware integration – storage and network access
• If desired, access to specific
networks and datastores can be
granted to denied at the group
level
• This enables providing access to
only the necessary infrastructure
to various groups

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VMware integration – VM provisioning
• VMware VMs can be deployed from:
 vSphere Content Libraries
 VM Essentials Virtual Images library
• VMware-compatible image types:
 ISO – for installing VM OS upon VM deployment
 VMDK – standard VMware virtual disk format
 OVA / OVF – open standard format for VMs

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VMware to VM Essentials image conversion
• Built into VME is the capability to convert
VMware virtual machine images that are
in the VME Virtual Image library to
QCOW2 images
• This allows conversion of VMware assets
into VME-compatible assets
• To convert:
 Click the gear icon next to the desired
VMware image
 Select Convert
 Format should be set to QCOW2
 Click Convert
• This will automatically convert to a VM
Essentials compatible QCOW2 image,
which can then be used to deploy a VM
within VME

• NOTE: when deploying Windows VMs, ensure that the

virtio drivers option is selected, to ensure proper
function of VM disks and networking

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Virtual machine management

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Virtual machine management
• Primary dashboard for VM
management is
Provisioning -> Instances
• An instance is not a VM,
but contains one or more
VMs that would correlate to
a single horizontally
scalable entity
• The VMs within an instance
will be deployed from the
same image
• Actions can be performed
at the instance or
individual VM level

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Instance main page actions
• From the main Provisioning ->
Instance page, actions can be
performed against one or more
instances
• Actions performed against the
instance are performed on any
virtual machines associated with
the instance:
 Power operations
 Open console
 Backup initiation
 Deletion
• Open Console performed at the
Instance level will open a console
to the first VM by default

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Instance-level console behavior
• If the console is opened at
the instance level, by
default, the first VM listed
is connected

• The specific VM can be

selected in the upper right
drop down

• VMs can also be accessed

via typical SSH / RDP
methods

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Instance internal dashboard
• Displays configuration and
usage information of the
instance:
 CPU, memory, and storage
utilization
 Backup status
 Summary
 Resources – VMs running in
instance
 Storage – VM disks
 Network – VM network interfaces
 Backups – VM backups and
snapshots
 History – actions performed on
the instance or VMs
 Console
 Wiki

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Instance internal actions
• From within an instance, additional
actions are presented:
 Import as Image – imports that
instance as an image into the Virtual
Images library
 Reconfigure – modify virtual machine
hardware configuration, some changes
may require a reboot of the VM
 Eject Disks – ejects and ISOs that
were mounted during initial VM
creation
 Lock / Unlock – toggles lock,
preventing instance deletion
 Clone – creates a full, independent
clone of the instance
 Create Snapshot – creates a point in
time snapshot of the instance (distinct
from a backup job)
 Run Task – execute tasks against the
instance from Library -> Automation
 Add Node – spins up additional VMs
within the instance

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Resource (VM) actions
• Like the Instance view, but focused on the
Resource (VM) level
• Actions are VM-specific:
 Start / Stop – powers on or off that specific VM
 Install Agent – installs Morpheus guest agent
 Download Agent Script – provides a script for
Morpheus guest agent install from within the
VM
 Manage Placement – migrate VM between hosts
and adjust the placement strategy
 Reconfigure – modify virtual hardware
configuration of the VM, including:
– Modify CPU and memory
– Add, delete, or resize virtual disks
– Change backing datastore of virtual disks
– Modify, add, or delete virtual networks

• Guest agent:
• Software agent that can be install within the guest OS
• Bidirectional secure communication via command bus,
no network connectivity
• Provides enhanced statistics, resource utilization,
monitoring, and log capabilities as well as task
execution without traversing the network

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VM placement and migration
• When a VM is deployed, a host can be
explicitly defined or left to VME manager to
determine best placement
• Compute placement can be modified
through the Manage Placement action
• The host the VM is running on can be
changed by selecting a new host in the
drop down
• Placement strategy defines how placement
is handled:
 Auto – VME will automatically migrate VM based
on host workload or host failure
 Failover – VM will remain on selected host until
a host failure
 Pinned – VM remains on selected host and will
not migrate
• The datastore where the VM resides can be
changed through the Reconfigure action
and can be selected at the individual
volume:
 Changing this will migrate the data from one
datastore to another

• Note that for proper failover handling and

resiliency, the VMs should be on shared storage

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Automation

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Automation - tasks
• Automation capabilities within HPE VM
Essentials provide a set to tools enabling
powerful capabilities at and post deployment
• HPE VM Essentials supports the following
automation task types:
 Restart – a dedicated task to restart the target
before executing the next task
 Shell script – Bash shell script for Linux based
targets
 Powershell script – Powershell script for
Windows-based targets

• These scrips can be used to apply

configurations and install software
• Variables can be passed from HPE VME
manager to the scripts:
 Many default variables are available
 Custom variables can be specified on resources
for use
 Example variable call in a script calling the
vmetest secret entry from the Cypher store:
– <%=cypher.read('secret/vmetest’)%>

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Automation - Cypher 1.

Example of using a variable to return

an entry from the Cypher store:
1. Add key to Cypher store
2. Create task calling the variable
3. Execute task against a VM

2.

3.

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Automation - Archives
• Archives provide a way to store your
files and make them available for
download by your scripts and users
• Archives are created on buckets or file
shares
• Buckets and file shares are created in
Infrastructure -> Storage
• Supported storage types:
 Local storage on VME manager appliance
 Network storage
 Public clouds:
– Alibaba
– Azure
– Google Cloud Storage
– OpenStack Swift
– RackSpace CDN
– S3

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Automation - Archives
• Default Archives setting is private
• Archives can be set to public
 Downloads require no authentication
• Expiring public download links can
be created
• This enables programmatically
generating download links that can
be leveraged manually or via
automation tasks

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Features comparison

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HPE VM Essentials solution features
Multi-hypervisor support Provisioning automation
HPE VM Essentials enables simple provisioning and Execute Bash or PowerShell scripts during VM
management of HPE VM Essentials and VMware provisioning, to automate system bootstrapping
virtual machines operations
Centralized identity & single sign-on (SSO)
Enables external user authentication using Active Day 2 automation
Directory (AD) or LDAP. Optional SSO with Okta, HPE VM Essentials supports the execution of Bash
OneLogin, Azure AD, or other SAML-enabled and PowerShell scripts on provisioned and
providers discovered VMs

IPAM integration Secrets management

Integrate with external IP address management
providers (Infoblox, phpIPAM, BlueCat) to automate Securely store and retrieve secrets from the
the reservation of an IP address for the VM during the native secrets manager for use with the solution’s
provisioning process task automation feature

DNS integration HTML 5 virtual machine console

Integrate with external DNS providers (Infoblox, Access the dashboard of HPE VM Essentials and
Microsoft DNS, BlueCat) to automate the creation of VMware virtual machines via the HTML 5 console
DNS records for a VM during the provisioning process
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HPE VM Essentials hypervisor features
HPE-validated hardware Dynamic workload scheduler
The HPE VM Essentials hypervisor will be Dynamically schedule the placement of HPE
validated on HPE servers to deliver an VM Essentials virtual machines within a
optimal experience and provide hardware cluster, based upon optimal workload
compatibility assurance distribution across the cluster

VM live migration Storage migration

Migrate a running HPE VM Essentials Migrate the virtual disks of a running HPE
virtual machine from one host to another VM Essentials virtual machine from one
within the same cluster with zero storage datastore to another with zero
downtime downtime

VM high availability VMware VM conversion

Automatically restart HPE VM Essentials Convert existing VMware virtual machines
virtual machines on another host in the to the HPE VM Essentials hypervisor using
same cluster in the event of an the native conversion feature within the HPE
unexpected host failure within the cluster VM Essentials solution
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HPE VM Essentials hypervisor features
Virtual machine snapshots HPE Alletra Storage MP integration
Create and revert snapshots for HPE VM HPE VM Essentials includes an integration
Essentials virtual machines with the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
storage array, that enables HPE VM
Native data protection Essentials virtual machines to natively
reference the Alletra MP storage for their
Backup and restore HPE VM Essentials storage (1:1 VM-to-disk mapping)
virtual machines using the solution’s
native data protection feature
HPE Alletra Storage MP array-based
snapshots
External storage support
The Alletra MP storage integration provides
The HPE VM Essentials hypervisor supports the ability to create and revert array-based
running virtual machines on external snapshots for HPE VM Essentials virtual
storage via iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel machines through the HPE VM Essentials UI

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Value proposition
• Competitively priced VMware alternative
 Priced per socket on VME hosts for significant savings in most configurations,
compared to per-core licensing found in VMware, eliminating un-needed software
which is forced into VMware suites like VVF and VCF
• Unified management experience
 Connect existing brownfield VMware vCenter clusters for management and VM-
vending into ESXi and HPE VME from one simple interface
• Vertically integrated hardware and software solution
 Integrated into the HPE hardware portfolio to leverage software and hardware
synergy to deliver differentiating technical capabilities
• Scalable path to Morpheus PlatformOps
 Upgradable to full Morpheus PlatformOps suite, to add support for other hypervisors,
public clouds, and Kubernetes; governance policy enforcement, and cloud cost
management and optimization capabilities (FinOps)

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Features comparison
Feature VMware vSphere vSphere vSphere HPE VM Essentials
Standard Enterprise Plus Foundation
Life Cycle Management Yes Yes Yes Yes - HPE Private Cloud Business
Edition
Content Library Yes Yes Yes Yes
Distributed Switch No Yes Yes Yes
Virtual Volume Yes Yes Yes Yes, w/ HPE Alletra Storage MP
B10000
Identity Federation Yes Yes Yes Yes
TLS 1.2 and 1.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes
TPM 2.0 Yes Yes Yes No
Virtual TPM Yes Yes Yes No
VM encryption Yes Yes Yes Yes, w/ HPE Alletra Storage MP
B10000
SSO and Identity No No Yes Yes
Broker
Key Provider Yes Yes Yes No
vSMP Yes Yes Yes Yes
HA Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Features comparison
Feature vSphere vSphere vSphere HPE VM Essentials
Standard Enterprise Plus Foundation
Distributed Resource No Yes Yes Yes
Scheduler
Storage DRS No Yes Yes No
Distributed Power No Yes Yes No
Management
Storage Policy-based Yes Yes Yes No
Management
SR-IOV No Yes Yes No
vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes
Storage vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes
vSphere Replication Yes Yes Yes Yes, w/ HPE Alletra Storage MP
B10000
Support for 4K Native Yes Yes Yes Yes
Storage
vCenter HA (auto-restart) Yes Yes Yes Yes
vCenter Backup and Yes Yes Yes Yes
Restore
IPAM integration Yes Yes Yes Yes
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DNS integration Yes Yes Yes Yes

Resources
• HPE VM Essentials Software documentation
• FAQ - HPE VM Essentials Software
• Solution brief - HPE VM Essentials Software and hybrid cloud operations powered by M
orpheus
• Customer presentation - HPE VM Essentials
• Competitive positioning - HPE VM Essentials competitive battlecard
• Video - HPE VM Essentials product demo
• Video - HPE VM Essentials customer value proposition

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