Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced enhancements to its private cloud portfolio with the launch of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software. The new offerings integrate multi-hypervisor support and unified cloud management with HPE’s disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI), targeting significant reductions in virtualization licensing costs and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition now includes Morpheus VM Essentials, offering multi-hypervisor compatibility and self-service virtualization management intended to reduce VM license expenses by as much as 90%. According to HPE, this builds on the existing estimated 2.5-times lower TCO achievable through its dHCI platform. The VM Essentials software manages both HPE VMs and traditional VMs, accommodating mixed virtualization environments from edge deployments to central data centers.
The Morpheus software suite, consisting of VM Essentials for virtualization and Enterprise Software for comprehensive cloud resource management, incorporates HPE’s HVM hypervisor with a per-socket licensing model. HPE claims the Enterprise Software simplifies governance and automation across virtual machines, containers, bare-metal servers, and public clouds, enabling approximately 150-times faster app provisioning and up to 30% cost reduction via analytics-driven workload optimization.
Both VM Essentials and Morpheus Enterprise have been validated to operate independently of hardware vendor selection, supporting systems including HPE ProLiant Gen11 and Gen12, Dell PowerEdge servers, and NetApp AFF storage arrays. According to HPE, combining VM Essentials with its Aruba Networking CX 10000 solution and Alletra Storage MP B10000 further reduces TCO by 48%, improves performance up to 10-times, and offers enhanced security through microsegmentation and data processing unit (DPU) acceleration.
HPE has additionally unveiled its Cloud Platform Services – Virtualization Modernization, aimed at offering specialized assessments, workload migration, infrastructure modernization, team education, and ongoing infrastructure management services.
“HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has paid for itself with what we are saving on legacy support contracts, as-a-service consumption, datacenter space and energy efficiency,” said Roberto Valenta, corporate technology & operations IT manager, Aeropuertos Argentina. “The performance, scalability and reliability are the backbone of our mission-critical workloads from flight tracking to airport arrivals and departures. Business Edition powers our vision to deliver faster, stress-free services that reduce waiting, check-in, and security times for flyers.”
Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
