One of the things I was so pleased about at VMworld Barcelona last year – was when HP and VMware announced that HP was joining the EVO:RAIL program. One of the most consistent messages I was getting from customers was “do you have HP model”. HP is a very dominant player in EMEA, and globally really – and there are many loyal customers to HP that really wouldn’t like to see anything but HP badge in their racks. Anyway, HP have announced this week the GA of their EVO:RAIL. There are one or two things to clear up around product names and offerings.
HP have opted to use the product name “HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC” for two quite distinct offerings. The EVO:RAIL offering and separate and different “ConvergedSystem 200-HC StorVirtual VSA” offering which doesn’t use EVO:RAIL and VMware VSAN, and instead uses the HP StorVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance. The form-factor is the same look/feel; – a 2U chassis with 4-nodes, but the specifications (CPU/Memory/Disk) are different. The “HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO:RAIL” Appliance product page is located here:is located at this page here:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/cs-solutions/product-detail.html?oid=7729462
Like many of our other Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners (QEP), HP offer their EVO:RAIL in two flavours based on either RJ-45 or SFP+ connectivity – their part numbers are L3W30A and L3W31A respectively. The tech specs are the following:
Four HP ProLiant SL210t Gen8 Servers, each with:
• Two Intel® E5-2620 v2 six-core CPUs
• 192 GB memory
• One SAS 300 GB 10k rpm drive ESXi boot device
• Three SAS 1.2 TB 10k rpm drive for the VMware Virtual SAN data store
• One 400 GB MLC enterprise-grade SSD for read/write cache
• One H220 host bus adapter (HBA) pass-through controller
• Two 10GbE NIC ports, configured for SFP+ connections
• One 1GbE IPMI port for remote (out-of-band) management