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Workaround Instructions for CVE-2021-21972 and CVE-2021-21973 on VMware vCenter Server (82374)

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

New VMware KB that I wanted to outline.

“The vCenter Server team has investigated CVE-2021-21972 and CVE-2021-21973 and have determined that the possibility of exploitation can be removed by performing the steps detailed in the Workaround section of this article. This workaround is meant to be a temporary solution until updates documented in VMSA-2021-0002 can be deployed.

Impacted and Fixed vCenter Server Versions:

VersionImpacted VersionsFixed VersionRelease DateVAMI/Release Notes
Build Number		Client/MOB/vpxd.log
Build Number
 7.0  All versions prior to 7.0 U1c        7.0 U1c (or later)2020-12-1717327517 (or later)    17327586 (or later)
 6.7 VCSAAll versions prior to 6.7 U3l        6.7 U3l (or later)2020-11-1917138064 (or later)   17137327 (or later)
         6.7 Windows          All versions prior to 6.7 U3l         6.7 U3l (or later)2020-11-1917138064 (or later)   17137232 (or later)
VersionImpacted VersionFixed VersionRelease DateBuild Number
6.5 (VCSA and Windows)                All versions prior to 6.5 U3n                  6.5 U3n (or later)2021-02-23          17590285(or later)

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More info https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/82374

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OpenIndiana Install on VMware Workstation

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

 

I was discussing Unix distributions with a bud on facebook. Hal Rottenberg 

So I thought I would do a few posts on installs and results. 

We are going to kick things off with OpenIndiana.

 

OpenIndiana is a free and open-source Unix operating system derived from OpenSolaris and based on illumos. Developers forked OpenSolaris after Oracle Corporation discontinued it, in order to continue development and distribution of the source code. Wikipedia

 

For the ease of installation, I am installing these in VMware workstation. I used freebsd as the OS when I made a new VM.

Lets go ahead and grab the media.

Download

 

Below I walk through the install process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There we have it. I hope you enjoyed the post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 Manager reset password

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

 

The other day I ended up writing a bat file to reset the password on the current version of Symantec Endpoint Protection

@start “UPDATPASS” “E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\jre\bin\javaw.exe” -Dprism.order=sw -Xms128m -Xmx256m -Djava.library.path=”%PATH%;E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat\bin;E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\ASA\win64″ -Dcatalina.home=”E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat” -cp “E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\Tools\tools.jar;E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\bin\inst.jar;E:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\bin\inst-res.jar” com.sygate.scm.tools.DatabaseFrame setpassword admin admin

 

 

I hope this helps someone.

 

 

 

Roger

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Nutanix – File Setup.

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

After walking you through the setup of a nutanix ce cluster. I wanted to show you how to deploy nutanix file.

Nutanix CE 101 – Getting Started and getting current.

Go ahead and login.

 

 

You can grab the file downloads at the support portal.

Click on file server to upload the file server files.

Once they are uploaded you’ll see this.

Click Continue.

Click Continue.

First we have to add an iSCSI Data Services IP

 

 

First we have to add an iSCSI Data Services IP

 

Then Click Continue.

Next we need to add a network for the storage network.

And one for the client network.

Now we can click continue.

Now let’s click next.

Click Next.

Click Next.

File out the dns name and domain, and click next.

Fill out the client network, and Click save, and Next.

Fill out the Storage network, and Click save, and Next.

Put in a domain user and password to join it to the domain, and click next.

 

And click Create!

After deployment is complete you’ll have files.

In the future I’ll walk you through the setup.

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Nutanix CE 101 – Getting Started and getting current.

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

I recently wrote about creating a Nutanix Cluster via cli.  Nutanix Cluster Create Cli

Setting up a new Nutanix Cluster? These are the parameters.

cluster --dns_servers=172.16.30.30,172.16.30.32 -s 172.16.70.39,172.16.70.51,172.16.70.53,172.16.70.56 --cluster_name=lab2 --cluster_external_ip=172.16.70.60 create

I wanted to follow up with the next steps after login.

Now because I deployed the current version, I can’t show how to upgrade AOS or the Hypervisor. we can cover that in a later post.

 

Lets start!

 

Go to https://IPaddressordnsname:9440/

Go ahead and login with the defaults. admin and Nutanix/4u

Next, it will prompt you with a password change.

 

 

Now you need to login with a Nutanix Account.

Boom, we have a dashboard.

 

Lets go head and click the gear in the upper right.

 

Now on the left, Click upgrade software.

Click on Foundation.

Click on download.

Once done, go ahead and click on upgrade.

Then once that finishes lets click on NCC.

And lets click on download.

And then click on upgrade.

 

OK, now we are on a current version.

 

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HPE GreenLake – HPE moves forward with cloud services.

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

HPE like many companies see the importance of cloud in today’s ecosystem. This week they announced HPE Greenlake Cloud Services.

Video: Why everything as a service

They are touting the cloud experience by offering things like:

  • Pay per use. Allowing a opex vs capex expenditure for customers.
  • Scale up an down. Speaks for it’s self, allowing users to change the scale of needs with pay-per-use.
  • Simplified IT. Simple but powerful self-service platform, with GreenLake Central.
  • Manged for you. Allow their operation center to manage both public and on-prem clouds.

View the HPE GreenLake Experience video

HPE is offering a variety of cloud services; from VM’s to containers, data protection and more.

Explore HPE GreenLake cloud services

Why would you want to consider HPE cloud services?

 

Business agility
Move faster, get capacity when you need it, and accelerate app and services deployment

Simpler IT
Get expertise and support to help with routine tasks to free up your staff for more important business initiatives

Lower IT costs
Eliminate the need for upfront capital and stop overprovisioning

Proper control
Easily monitor and manage performance, security, compliance, and data, as well as latency, risk and cost

 

What does it look like?

 

Explore HPE Greenlake Central

 

 

 

Click here for a interactive view.

 

 

Looking for more?

Check out these resources :

 

Optimizing your hybrid cloud environment

Why Everything-as-a-Service? Why HPE?

Bringing the cloud experience to your apps and data infographic

BRINGING THE PUBLIC CLOUD EXPERIENCE TO THE ON-PREMISES DATACENTER

The Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake

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Repost : Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

I found this post when playing around with my Nutanix CE lab.

Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

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Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable…

Luckily you can change the gateway with no need to bring down any component of the Nutanix cluster… That saves a lot of time… (The commands are not really Nutanix specific. I suppose the commands will work on all Linux like platforms, also.)

Just enter the following commands on the Controller VMs and the AHV nodes. Please don’t forget to make the necessary changes to the ifcfg-eth0 and the ifcfg-br0. Otherwise the changes will not be persistent after a reboot.

#Controller VM

sudo route add default gw xx.xx.xx.250
sudo route delete default gw xx.xx.xx.50
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

#Node
sudo route add default gw xx.xx.xx.250
sudo route delete default gw xx.xx.xx.50
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0

Thanks for the post Bart. I had made a typo. 🙂

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News Release : Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps customers accelerate transformation with breakthrough HPE GreenLake cloud services

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

News Release :

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps customers accelerate transformation with breakthrough HPE GreenLake cloud services

JUNE 23, 2020 • PRESS RELEASE

IN THIS ARTICLE

  • HPE now provides HPE GreenLake cloud services to customers in the environment of their choice – from edge to cloud
  • Unlike public cloud vendors, HPE GreenLake’s flexible as-a-service model allows customers prioritize investments that are aligned to business priorities
  • HPE now offers cloud services for containers, machine learning operations, virtual machines, storage, compute, data protection and networking

New HPE GreenLake cloud services deliver an agile, lower cost, and consistent cloud experience everywhere

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 23, 2020 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced significant advancements to the company’s edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service strategy, through next-generation cloud services and an accelerated delivery experience for HPE GreenLake. The new HPE GreenLake cloud services, which span container management, machine learning operations, VMs, storage, compute, data protection, and networking, help customers transform and modernize their applications and data – the majority of which live on premises, in colocation facilities, and increasingly at the edge.

“Now more than ever, given current market conditions, organizations have an urgent need to connect and leverage all of their applications and data in order to transform their businesses, support their employees, and serve their customers,” said Antonio Neri, President and CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “As we enter the next phase of the cloud market, customers require an approach that enables them to innovate and modernize all of their applications and workloads, including those at the edge and on premises. By delivering a consistent cloud experience everywhere through HPE GreenLake cloud services, and software designed to accelerate transformation, HPE is uniquely positioned to help customers harness the full power of their information, wherever it resides.”

Today, organizations are at a crossroads in their digital transformation efforts. According to IDC, despite the growth and adoption of public clouds, 70 percent of applications remain outside of the public cloud1. Due to several factors, including application entanglement, data gravity, security and compliance, and unpredictable costs, organizations have struggled to move the majority of the applications that run their businesses to public clouds. Forced to support two operating models, organizations face additional costs, complexity and inefficiency, limited agility and innovation, and the inability to capitalize on information everywhere.

HPE delivers a unique approach to solving this dilemma by providing HPE GreenLake cloud services to customers in the environment of their choice – from edge to cloud – with a consistent operating model and with visibility and governance across all enterprise applications and data.

HPE GreenLake cloud services also provides customers with a superior economic model. Unlike public cloud vendors, which charge customers to get data back on premises, HPE charges no data egress fees. HPE GreenLake’s flexible as-a-service model and robust cost and compliance analytics tools allow customers to preserve cash flow, control spend, and prioritize investments that are aligned to business priorities.

“HPE GreenLake gives us 100% uptime, and the predictable pricing model is already helping us cut costs,” said Ed Hildreth, Manager of IT Distributed Systems, Mohawk Valley Health System. “Thanks to the cloud-like experience, when we needed to quickly activate additional features and resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to easily roll this out with no time delay. We are extremely pleased with HPE GreenLake and plan to leverage this model once again for new hospitals within our health system.”

Introducing New HPE GreenLake Cloud Services for Distributed Environments

HPE now offers cloud services for containers, machine learning operations, virtual machines, storage, compute, data protection and networking. All cloud services are accessible via a self-service point-and-click catalogue on HPE GreenLake Central, a platform where customers can learn about, price, and request a trial on each cloud service; spin up instances and clusters in a few clicks; and manage their multi-cloud estate from one place. They can all be deployed and run in the customers’ environment.

Based on pre-integrated building blocks, the new HPE GreenLake cloud services are now available in small, medium, and large configurations,  delivered to customers from order to run in as few as 14 days. Partners and customers benefit from pre-configured reference architectures and pricing to speed time to consuming cloud services.

HPE also today unveiled HPE Ezmeral, a new brand and software portfolio designed to help organizations transform their applications, data, and operations, from edge to cloud. HPE Ezmeral spans a complete portfolio, including container management, AI/ML and data analytics, cost control, IT automation and AI-driven operations and security, that enables organizations to increase agility and efficiency, unlock insights, and accelerate innovation. The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops will be made available as HPE GreenLake cloud services to bring even greater speed and simplicity to containerized application development, and DevOps agility to the ML lifecycle.

Cloud services for Containers – These new HPE GreenLake cloud services, powered by HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, provide the flexibility to run containerized applications in data centers, colocation facilities, multiple public clouds, and at the edge.

Cloud services for Machine Learning Operations – Through HPE GreenLake, customers can subscribe to a workload-specific solution built on the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops for the entire ML lifecycle.

Cloud services for Virtual Machines, Storage, and Compute – For customers who want a private cloud experience, HPE is launching HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines, storage and compute. With provisioning of instances in five clicks, these easy-to-deploy services also provide visibility into usage and spend, and active capacity planning with powerful consumption analytics in the HPE GreenLake Central management platform.

Cloud services for Data Protection – For customers looking to modernize data protection, HPE is making data backup and recovery effortless and automated for every SLA – from rapid recovery to long-term retention. These new cloud services through HPE GreenLake include secure and efficient on-premises backup and an enterprise cloud backup service, HPE Cloud Volumes Backup, which enables backup and recovery to/from the cloud without egress costs or lock-in, and with the agility to activate data for recovery, test/dev, and analytics.

Cloud services for the Intelligent Edge – Today, more than ever, customers are looking to reduce CapEx to simplify their budget process and better predict and manage network operational costs. Aruba’s new Managed Connectivity Services, now available as cloud services through HPE GreenLake, provide the industry’s first complete Network as a Service offering, and bring cloud agility to the edge with the recently introduced Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform).

HPE GreenLake is one of the fastest-growing businesses in HPE with over 4 billion USD in total contract value, more than 850 enterprise customers worldwide, and over 700 partners selling HPE GreenLake today. HPE GreenLake’s unique metering, cost controls, cloud services, HPE Ezmeral software portfolio, and backing from HPE Financial Services and HPE Pointnext Technology Services provide a differentiated solution that competitors cannot match.

Availability and Additional Resources:

  • The new HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines, compute, storage, data protection, and intelligent edge are available now worldwide. The new HPE GreenLake cloud services for containers and ML Ops are available now in beta, and HPE is accepting customers for the beta program, with general availability scheduled for HPE Q4. 
  • HPE Ezmeral software is generally available now using traditional license models, including HPE Ezmeral ML Ops and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform as a software license subscription to run on any infrastructure or public cloud. 
  • The HPE GreenLake cloud services for containers, virtual machines, storage, compute, data protection, and networking are all channel-enabled and available for partners to sell via the HPE GreenLake for Partners program. To learn more, visit here. 
  • To learn more about HPE GreenLake, visit hpe.com/greenlake.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com. 

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News Release : Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduces channel programs and new HPE GreenLake cloud services to help partners deliver the cloud experience everywhere

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

News Release :

Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduces channel programs and new HPE GreenLake cloud services to help partners deliver the cloud experience everywhere

JUNE 23, 2020 • PRESS RELEASE

IN THIS ARTICLE
  • Partners can offer their customers best-in-class cloud services through a catalogue on HPE GreenLake Central
  • The new generation of HPE GreenLake cloud services provides an accelerated delivery experience
  • Enhancements to the three HPE Pro Series programs enable channel partners with innovative learning opportunities

New cloud services and software expand revenue opportunities for channel partners selling HPE GreenLake; Updates to HPE Pro Series help partners transform customer experiences and drive joint business success

San Jose, Calif., – June 23, 2020 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a number of as-a-Service offerings and initiatives to help partners expand revenue opportunities, accelerate delivery and transform client relationships with HPE’s breakthrough cloud services and software platform. These new HPE GreenLake cloud services and software offerings optimized for the edge, data center and co-location facilities deliver new levels of speed and innovation to customers. HPE also announced plans to integrate partners onto HPE GreenLake Central to expand partner collaboration and as-a-Service sales with customers. Additionally, HPE unveiled updates to the HPE Pro Series programs to help HPE’s channel partners enhance learning and increase their solution expertise.

“HPE GreenLake gives us 100% uptime, and the predictable pricing model is already helping us cut costs,” said Ed Hildreth, Manager of IT Distributed Systems, Mohawk Valley Health System. “Thanks to the cloud-like experience, when we needed to quickly activate additional features and resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to easily roll this out with no time delay. We are extremely pleased with HPE GreenLake and plan to leverage this model once again for new hospitals within our health system.”

“As the industry has transformed with the public cloud, so has our approach to business. The new objective is to address customers’ business challenges, beyond just meeting IT requirements. And as a company, we see HPE GreenLake as critical to making this a reality,” said C.R. Howdyshell, President of Advizex, an HPE platinum partner. “By bringing HPE GreenLake to our customer, Mohawk Valley Health System, we were able to deliver the cloud experience and remarkable performance far more cost-effectively than on the public cloud. Additionally, HPE GreenLake is designed to help them build as they grow, not buy as they grow.”

More than 700 partners in the HPE channel ecosystem actively sell HPE GreenLake, and over the past year, there has been a 47%1 increase in HPE GreenLake orders from partners. HPE GreenLake has become the focal point for driving digital transformation with clients and a source of profitability for a steadily increasing number of partners. The HPE GreenLake for Partners Program is one of the most competitive in the industry, with the highest rebate and the ability for partners to add their own services with consumption offers for customers.

“We have a world class partner community enabling our customers to transform their businesses with new levels of speed and innovation,” said Paul Hunter, HPE Worldwide Head of Partner Sales. “Our partners play an essential role in both shaping and executing our strategy to become an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company. The cloud services and offerings we’re making available to partners today will bring them more opportunities to sell, help them better serve our joint customers, and more rapidly expand the scale and reach of HPE GreenLake.”

HPE unveiled today:

Accelerated Delivery of HPE GreenLake

The new generation of HPE GreenLake cloud services provides an accelerated delivery experience for partners and their customers. Partners can quickly respond to customer demand with streamlined delivery – from order to run in as few as 14 days. Based on pre-integrated building blocks, the new cloud services are now available in small, medium and large configurations, and rapidly scalable. With this standardized, solution-centric approach, partners can more easily provide quotes to customers.

New HPE GreenLake Cloud Services for Distributed Environments

Partners can now offer their customers new, best-in-class cloud services through a catalogue on HPE GreenLake Central. These services, which can all be deployed and run in the customers’ environment, include:

 

  • Cloud services for Containers 
  • Cloud services for Virtual Machines, Storage, Compute 
  • Cloud services for Data Protection 
  • Cloud services for Networking

Collaborative Opportunities with HPE GreenLake Central

HPE GreenLake Central is the advanced software platform that provides customers with a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data through an operational console that runs, manages and optimizes their entire hybrid IT estate. The platform allows users to get up-to-date information about their costs, capacity, or status of HPE GreenLake cloud services through a simple point-and-click interface. HPE is actively integrating partners end-to-end across HPE GreenLake Central, and in 2021, partners will have their own access to the platform, providing them a unified view of customer data and further opportunities to engage with customers or sell additional services.

New HPE GreenLake for Partners Program Offerings

Partners can now sell the following HPE GreenLake cloud services via the HPE GreenLake for Partners Program:

 

  • HPE GreenLake Expanded Storage Partner Ecosystem
    To better support customers in their digital transformation efforts, partners must be able to offer choice and a broad range of consumption opportunities within the HPE GreenLake experience. In addition to the HPE GreenLake converged data management and modern file storage cloud services offerings with Cohesity and Qumulo, respectively, partners can now offer scalable object storage with Scality RING and consumption-based data protection with Veeam.     
  • HPE GreenLake Management Services
    HPE is helping partners on the journey from value-added reseller (VAR) to managed service provider (MSP) by extending the capability to sell HPE GreenLake Management Services, thus providing additional recurring revenue opportunities. This suite of services can be added to HPE GreenLake offers to help manage, operate and optimize infrastructure in addition to apps and workloads in specialized environments, such as SAP HANA or Hadoop.

 

Container Enablement

As more organizations invest in containers as part of their digital transformation strategies, HPE is offering new learning opportunities for partners to build practices and skills related to containers. Container and Software competencies are being integrated into the HPE Partner Ready program, and HPE is expanding content on the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform to be available via HPE Sales Pro and HPE Tech Pro.

Enhanced Learning Experiences Through HPE Pro Series

HPE has consistently invested in resources to help partners embrace its technology vision and create more dynamic customer experiences. Since the HPE Pro Series launch, the HPE Tech Pro community has grown more than 50% quarter over quarter, and over 60,000 partners visit Seismic every month. HPE aims to provide partners with the same personalized learning experience as its sales teams – as well as forums to find the right specialists who can help them close deals faster and differentiate through expertise.

“HPE Tech Pro is a community built by Solution Architects for Solution Architects – meaning it provides its users with the best resources in the right places,” said Linus Granzell, Hybrid Platforms Specialist at ATEA, an HPE platinum partner. “When it comes time to close a deal, responding to a prospective customer with the right materials quickly can be the key to success. The Tech Pro community makes it incredibly easy to find and deliver the correct information in a short amount of time. Thanks to the structured and up-to-date wealth of resources on Tech Pro, our teams are well-equipped to maintain their skills, receive competencies and certifications, and engage with customers on new levels.”

Today HPE is announcing significant enhancements to the three “Pro” programs:

 

  • HPE Sales Pro
    The new learning experience offered by HPE Sales Pro links HPE and partner sales professionals to innovative enablement, training and learning — all in one place. HPE Sales Pro makes it easy to find new, succinct training modules, including videos, podcasts, gamification and a video recording tool for sales teams to practice pitches and assess performance in real time. Sellers can build custom learning programs aligned to role and mastery level, quickly and easily enhance their skills, expand their knowledge of the HPE portfolio, and drive an outcome-focused selling approach.     
  • HPE Tech Pro
    HPE Tech Pro has expanded continuous learning badges and introduced new segment-focused content with the launch of the specialized SMB portal experience, an accelerated virtual event strategy that enables partners to take exams and certify at a deep discounts or for free, and new competencies to help partners embrace an outcome-based solution selling approach. The community now also provides a localized portal in 13 languages.     
  • HPE Marketing Pro
    Formerly the HPE Partner Ready Digital Marketing Program, HPE Marketing Pro provides tailored content, learning opportunities and resources to help partners advance their end-to-end marketing effectiveness and drive growth with HPE. The HPE Marketing Pro Learning Center is now available in seven local languages and includes an accreditation option. Through intuitive, immersive campaign guides and campaign blueprints tailored for different marketing objectives, partners benefit from enhanced tools to help them deliver integrated digital campaigns and personalized experiences for customers.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.

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News Release : Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveils HPE Ezmeral, new software portfolio and brand to fuel data-driven transformation

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

News Release :

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveils HPE Ezmeral, new software portfolio and brand to fuel data-driven transformation

JUNE 23, 2020 • PRESS RELEASE

IN THIS ARTICLE
  • HPE Ezmeral is a new brand and software portfolio designed to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation across their organization, from edge to cloud
  • HPE announced that HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops will be made available as cloud services through HPE GreenLake 

HPE Ezmeral software helps organizations speed innovation, modernize applications, unlock the value of data, and automate operations – from edge to cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 23, 2020 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise today introduced HPE Ezmeral, a new brand and software portfolio designed to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation across their organization, from edge to cloud. HPE Ezmeral spans a complete portfolio – including container orchestration and management, AI/ML and data analytics, cost control, IT automation and AI-driven operations, and security – enabling organizations to increase agility and efficiency, unlock insights, and deliver business innovation.

The HPE Ezmeral portfolio plays an essential role in HPE’s edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service strategy. Today, HPE also introduced new HPE GreenLake cloud services, which provide an agile, lower cost, and consistent cloud experience everywhere. As part of this news, HPE announced that HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops will be made available as cloud services through HPE GreenLake to bring even greater speed and simplicity to containerized application development, and DevOps agility to the ML lifecycle.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform software provides the flexibility to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale on any infrastructure – in enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, multiple public clouds, and at the edge. Customers can run cloud-native or non-cloud-native applications in containers without costly refactoring, manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with a unified control plane, and leverage a high-performance distributed file system for persistent data and stateful applications through HPE’s proven innovations such as HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and the KubeDirector open source project. Now HPE Ezmeral Container Platform will also be delivered as a cloud service through HPE GreenLake.

HPE Ezmeral ML Ops software leverages containerization to streamline the entire machine learning model lifecycle across on-premises, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge environments. The solution introduces a DevOps-like process to standardize machine learning workflows and accelerate AI deployments from months to days. Customers benefit by operationalizing AI / ML data science projects faster, eliminating data silos, seamlessly scaling from pilot to production, and avoiding the costs and risks of moving data. HPE Ezmeral ML Ops will also now be available through HPE GreenLake.

“The HPE Ezmeral software portfolio fuels data-driven digital transformation in the enterprise by modernizing applications, unlocking insights, and automating operations,” said Kumar Sreekanti, CTO and Head of Software for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “Our software uniquely enables customers to eliminate lock-in and costly legacy licensing models, helping them to accelerate innovation and reduce costs, while ensuring enterprise-grade security. With over 8,300 software engineers in HPE continually innovating across our edge to cloud portfolio and signature customer wins in every vertical, HPE Ezmeral software and HPE GreenLake cloud services will disrupt the industry by delivering an open, flexible, cloud experience everywhere.”

“The effective use of data is a cornerstone for any government to unlock its full potential,” said Dr. Abdulla Al Kendi, Acting Executive Director of Technology and Policies, Abu Dhabi Digital Authority. “For this reason, Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA) has formed a strong partnership with HPE on a number of digitization and advanced data initiatives. The recent COVID-19 crisis has ushered in a new chapter to our collaboration with HPE. Using HPE Ezmeral ML Ops, ADDA is deploying leading-edge data science and AI/ML instrumentation to develop intelligent policies aimed at recovery and containment, preparedness and disease management and economic growth and revitalization. We’re pleased with the performance of the HPE Ezmeral ML Ops software so far and are very supportive of the steps HPE is taking to deliver MLOps software through HPE GreenLake.”

“AI/ML is the catalyst to any innovative, scalable and resilient business in today’s world,” said Dr. Mats Nordlund, board member of AI.se, and director of Research and Innovation at Zenuity. “AI innovation of Sweden (AI.se) works with our 70+ partners with an aim to strengthen the competitiveness of Swedish industry and welfare. We are proud to partner with HPE in their development journey for the new GreenLake ML Ops cloud services.  As we strive to accelerate applied AI research though collaboration and cross industry sharing, we are excited to work with HPE in bringing innovation to the area of data factories and ML model development at-scale.  AI.se is excited to work with HPE experts to test, learn and innovate on their new HPE Ezmeral ML Ops offering. Together, we’ve identified ways to refine the functionality and compatibility of the offering, which we believe will serve AI.se and other HPE partners in bringing ML capabilities for business success.”

Commitment to Open Source – HPE is actively engaged in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kubernetes community, with open source projects such as KubeDirector, Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) and SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE). These projects are a key component of the HPE Ezmeral strategy to deliver an open and flexible software portfolio that helps customers avoid vendor lock-in.

  • A key component of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is an HPE-contributed open source project, KubeDirector, which provides the ability to run non-cloud-native monolithic applications (i.e., complex, stateful, scale-out application clusters requiring persistent storage) on Kubernetes.
  • HPE’s acquisition in February 2020 of Scytale for cloud-native security underscores its commitment to the open source ecosystem, with ongoing contributions to open source projects, including SPIFFE and SPIRE.
  • On June 22, CNCF announced that SPIFFE and SPIRE have been promoted from sandbox to incubation-level hosted projects. This is an important development that signifies the continued evolution and market adoption of the projects.
  • Since joining CNCF, the SPIFEE and SPIRE projects have grown in popularity and have been deployed by notable companies such as Bloomberg, Bytedance, Pinterest, Square, Uber, and Yahoo Japan. SPIRE has a thriving developer community, with an ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions from organizations such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Google, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Pinterest, Square, TransferWise, and Uber.


The HPE Ezmeral brand name is a derivative of esmeralda, the Spanish word for emerald. Emeralds are believed to confer power and the ability to predict future events, strengthen intelligence, ease stress, and enhance immunity. The transformation of raw emerald to a cut and polished stone to reveal something more beautiful and valuable is analogous to the digital transformation journey our customers are on. To read more about the HPE Ezmeral strategy, portfolio, and brand launch, please see the blog from Kumar Sreekanti, CTO and Head of Software for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Availability and Additional Resources:

  • HPE Ezmeral software is generally available using traditional license models, including HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops as a software license subscription to run on any infrastructure or public cloud.
  • HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops are available now in beta as cloud services through HPE GreenLake, and accepting customers for the beta program, with general availability scheduled for HPE Q4.
  • HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is channel-enabled and available for partners to sell as cloud services through the HPE GreenLake for Partners program. To learn more, visit here.
  • To learn more about HPE Ezmeral, visit hpe.com/ezmeral.
  • To learn more about HPE GreenLake, visit hpe.com/greenlake.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com. 

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