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1 8 Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA August 2016 HPE Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin Technical Information for the HPE Community in EMEA Contents Enterprise Group News HPE Servers 4 HPE Storage 5 HPE Networking 7 Alliance Partner News 8 Frequently Asked Questions HPE Servers 10 HPE Storage 11 HPE Networking 12 About HPE Office Based Presales EMEA 14 Click here to subscribe for the HPE Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin Click here to access the repository to the HPE Office Based Presales Technical Bulletin Enterprise Group News HPE Converged Infrastructure solutions simplify your data center, making it more energy and space-efficient while being less expensive to operate.

2 Find out how we help transform your legacy infrastructure to achieve tomorrow's goals through IT convergence. HPE Servers Virtual Machine Explorer Offered as Electronic License Starter Pack SKUs supported on ProLiant DL and ML platforms, it should be positioned when the customer needs a cost-effective, easy to install and use backup solution for pure VMware or Hyper-V environments. product page QuickSpecs Link Microsoft Azure In order to allow partners to integrate Azure Services into a HPE ProLiant hybrid environment, HPE has launched a new Azure Token Program HPE and Microsoft have entered into an agreement to resell tokens to be used towards any standard Azure service(s) worldwide. This is available as a single saleable HPE Option SKU (like other Microsoft products being resold to customers today), and should be positioned as an introductory offer and advertised at full face value of USD $500.

3 Note, only 1 Token can be sold per server, and is limited to 5 Tokens per customer. product page NVIDIA Accelerators Highest end NVIDIA Graphics card with twice as much memory as the previous version of it. Nambu: Based on NVIDIA's CUDA architecture, the NVIDIA accelerators enable seamless integration of GPU computing with HPE ProLiant servers for high-performance computing, large data center graphics and virtual desktop deployments. The NVIDIA Tesla M40 is Based on the latest Maxwell architecture. product page QuickSpecs HPE Core HPC software Stack Integrated and validated, pre-composed software set for HPC developers and HPC system admins. Consists of open source components plus ICMU, Cluster Test Lite, and Cluster Setup Tool from HPE, CUDA toolkit from NVidia, and HPC-X from Mellanox. Distributed as a download from HPC software Depot as a single ISO image.

4 Runs on HPE servers only. No SKU. $0 cost product page QuickSpecs Link HPE Storage NEW! HPE StoreVirtual 3200 and HPE MSA 2042 bring High-End Capabilities to Entry Storage On August 15th, 2016, HPE announced new storage solutions that help small and midsized businesses (SMBs) modernize their IT with hybrid flash and software -defined platforms that bring enterprise capabilities to sub-$10K. The new StoreVirtual 3200 (chalk talk) is next-gen, flexible shared storage with advanced features and flash support starting at $ The new MSA 2042 (chalk talk) delivers hybrid flash and a built-in automated data tiering engine to help SMBs make the most of that flash capacity to accelerate applications from day one, starting at $ As an HPE partner, these new product offerings and upsell opportunities give you new ways to aggressively expand your SMB footprint, bring flash to new segments of the storage market, and cash in on upgrades and services.

5 Visit the HPE Partner Ready Portal and register for the following live training sessions to learn more: 16 Aug 16, 4:30 PM CEST - HPE Storage Channel Partner TekTalk (Eligible for 3 Knowledge Credits) 25 Aug 16, 5:00 PM CEST - HPE StorageTV Winning with Storage in SMB (Eligible for 2 Knowledge Credits) 7 Sept 16, 2:00 PM CEST - EMEA HPE Storage Channel PowerHour (Eligible for 4 Knowledge Credits) 1 Estimated US street price for configuration with hardware and software . 2 Estimated US street price for configuration with hardware and software . New: Using 3 PAR Peer Persistence with Stretched Clustering to Avoid Downtime paper from Silverton Consulting This paper describes how our Peer Persistence technology together with stretched clustering services can provide a fully automated HA and downtime avoidance solution for dual datacenter environments.

6 German University Uses HPE 3 PAR for Research and Students This podcast is a must. HPES torageGuy Calvin Zito sat down with Dr. Heinz-Hermann Adam at Discover to discuss some of the features that are very important to the university and their use of the 3 PAR StoreServ File Controller ( Based on StoreEasy) for unstructured data, which they have been doing for a long time before we had the 3 PAR File Persona! HPE 3 PAR StoreServ Storage delivers another home run, according to Demartek s new evaluation Read the latest ATSB post, SQL Testing on 3 PAR All-Flash: It s D j Vu All Over Again to learn how a famous Yogi-ism applies to HPE 3 PAR StoreServ All-Flash Storage! Enhanced Flash-Optimized Data Protection for HPE 3 PAR StoreServ Let s take a closer look at the data protection challenges RMC addresses and the key features, benefits and value it delivers to HPE 3 PAR StoreServ flash storage.

7 Crash Course: Data Protection Power for Your Apps with 3 PAR and StoreOnce HPE RMC expands the RMC ecosystem to include Oracle Databases and 3 PAR File Persona. Learn everything you need to know about RMC in under 20 minutes with these great resources. New: Video surveillance with HPE 3 PAR StoreServ with File Persona and Genetec Omnicast Technical white paper This Technical whitepaper for solution architects and project managers discusses how the HPE 3 PAR StoreServ hybrid array with File Persona enabled together with Genetec Omnicast video management software provides a comprehensive video surveillance solution. Read the paper today. BURA News Introducing StoreEver Archive Manager Increase your revenue, margins, competitive differentiation, and customer relevance with HPE StoreEver Archive Manager.

8 This new storage solution combines the access benefits of flash with the economics and long-term retention benefits of tape. Now your customers can keep and access more data, longer and for less. Use the following HPE StoreEver Archive Manager assets created to support this release: Customer Collateral HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Product Video HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Solution Brief HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Customer Presentation White Papers HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Business White Paper HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Technical White Paper HPE StoreEver Archive Manager ESG Analyst White Paper Web HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Chalk Talk HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Launch Blog HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Web Page BURA meter microsite Sales Guides HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Sales Guide HPE StoreEver Archive Manager Competitive Battlecard StoreOnce Mobile Watch this short YouTube tutorial showing you how to monitor your HPE StoreOnce system from your mobile using the HPE StoreOnce Mobile app.

9 StoreOnce Plug-in for Oracle RMAN This new offering integrates HPE StoreOnce with Oracle RMAN through HPE StoreOnce Catalyst (a backup-optimized, high-performance protocol). Learn more about these Oracle data protection solutions using the assets below: Recovery Manager Central for Oracle Solution Brief Oracle backup and recovery using the HPE StoreOnce Plug-in for Oracle Reference Architecture HPE Data Protector and HPE Backup Navigator now available! Notifications about the availability of both product releases have gone out to customers from the hpe software Support team. Both products are available on the hpe software Support website > software Patch section for Data Protector. See below for related assets to support this release. HPE Data Protector Updated Quickspec Announcement blog HPE Backup Navigator Updated Quickspec Announcement blog HPE Networking News and Resources: Rio Airport Updates Network and Indoor Navigation (Baseline) HPE Networking Product Portfolio Guide Listing of all available HPE Networking public assets Alliance Partners News (also attached in high resolution as a pdf file) Metro Cloud Connectivity: Integrated Metro SAN Connectivity in Gen 5 FC Switches White Paper As customers look to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (FC SANs) for building private storage cloud services for their enterprise data centers, some of the key requirements are.

10 Consolidated and highly virtualized pools of compute, storage, and network resources Secure and efficient use of inter-fabric connectivity Lower capital and operational costs, higher asset utilization On-demand and efficient provisioning of application resources through automated management HPE StoreFabric B-series now supports FOS FOS is a patch release Based on FOS All hardware platforms and features supported in FOS are also supported in FOS For a detailed list of supported devices please visit the B-series FC matrix at SPOCK Enterprise Group Frequently Asked Questions HPE Servers Is Oracle database supported for OpenVMS on Itanium? Yes, since July 2015 Oracle version is supported with OpenVMS (from HPE) and (from VSI). Read more at the Oracle Recent Releases.