HP Synergy 12000 Composer Management Appliance Modules 804353-B21 One View

HPE Synergy Composer, powered by HPE OneView, manages the Composable Infrastructure of HPE Synergy
HPE Synergy Composer2 is a second-generation management appliance which provides the following enhanced capabilities:


Gen10 Architecture:
UEFI and iLO5
8-Core processor with 64 GB memory
Fast user interface responsiveness
Improved performance for operations at scale
iLO Remote access

iLO Access for remote datacenter management
Remote power controls, remote console, and re-imaging using iLO Virtual Media

Security
Secure Boot validates the Composer2 firmware to the iLO ‘Silicon Root of Trust’ to prevent tampering
Composer2 iLO access is secure by default, using the CNSA security mode.


Product features
All HPE Synergy Composer management appliances will benefit from these HPE OneView enhancements:

HPE Synergy Composer, powered by HPE OneView, manages the composable infrastructure
Fluid pools of resources in a single infrastructure of Compute, Storage, and Fabric resources which are matched to workloads with self-assimilating capacity
Software-Defined intelligence from a single interface that efficiently matches logical software structures to available resources for rapid workload implementation, leveraged re-use, and orchestrated template-driven operations

Unified API access for integrations, automations, and customizations by utilizing simple programming of every infrastructure element to easily automate IT operational processes and applications


Virtual Connect (VC) fabric & networking
Advanced L2 features for 100Gb Synergy VC interconnect module
Synergy IPv6 support with device assignment/address pools
Support for large network sets
Arista ToR support
Improved Logical Interconnect (LI) ‘Update from Group’ progress indicators

Firmware updates
Firmware compliance dashboard for Gen10-based servers
Server firmware ‘retries during failure’ enhancements
Fine-Grained progress indicators during firmware update process

Storage
Brocade Fabric Operating System (FoS) support, a REST API implementation on the latest Brocade switches which replaces Brocade Network Advisor (BNA)
Nimble Storage Arrays support for Fibre Channel (FC) and mixed Fibre Channel /Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet (FC/FCoE)

Security
Data-At-Rest encryption in Synergy Composer
Template and profile enhancements
Cluster profile ‘rolling cluster update’ for VMware vSAN
Consistency reporting for FW+BIOS (Server profile to server hardware)

Supportability and remote support
Cancel firmware update task
Global secondary contact’ added in HPE OneView Remote Support
Preview Support Dump

Additional enhancements
iLO Configuration for Hostname & Key manager setup
Enhanced ‘noisy alert’ suppression
Display-of-Progress reporting enhancements for long-running tasks
WCAG 2.0 Accessibility standards for keyboard operations

Integrations with popular software applications
such as HPE OneView for VMware vCenter and HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center, are also being continuously enhanced

HPE Synergy Composer
This is the primary appliance for managing Synergy systems. This hardware appliance is powered by HPE OneView and is designed with hardware failover-allowing a redundant Composer appliance to take over control and keep critical infrastructure up and running
HPE Synergy Composer2 This is a second-generation management appliance which provides enhanced capabilities where noted

Infrastructure as code
HPE Synergy Composer manages Composable Infrastructure with software-defined intelligence to present an‘infrastructure as code’ view of fluid resource pools to developers and users

High Availability (HA) lifecycle management
HA Management
Security
Management appliance backup
Monitoring, health, and maintenance
Dashboard
Firmware compliance dashboard
Pure IPv6 support (option)

Easy setups, quick to-use
Auto-Discovery
Simplified setup
Self-Assimilating systems

Compute management
Powerful templates
Frictionless updates

Storage management
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) - local and zoned
External Arrays connected via Storage Area Networks (SAN)
External Arrays connected via SAN - HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays
External Arrays connected via SAN - HPE 3PAR Storage Systems
External Arrays connected via SAN - Brocade & Cisco
Boot from - SAN
Storage monitoring, connectivity, and synchronization

Fabric management
Virtual connect
Flexible bandwidth pools
Fabric disaggregation
Frictionless scaling
Frictionless updates
Multi-Module Link Aggregation (MLAG)
Software-Defined intelligence


HPE Composable Fabric (Plexxi)
HPE Synergy with HPE Composable Fabric (Formerly known as Plexxi) provides network automation and agility for the Composable Infrastructure
Deploy and scale user infrastructure in real-time without specialized networking skills, quickly compose/decompose cloud resources and workloads, and manage on-premises and public cloud resources

Image streamer
HPE Image Streamer is a new approach to deployment and updates for composable infrastructure
This optional Synergy management appliance works with HPE Composer to provide fast software-defined control over physical compute modules with Operating System (OS) provisioning

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
HPE Synergy provides an array of GPU's for use in Synergy Compute and VDI environments, managed by Synergy Composer
Synergy GPU deployments support among the highest user densities per rack for CAD, simulation, geophysical analysis, and general knowledge-worker use cases
GPUs Are deployed as bare metal OS or virtualized with support for both pass through and virtual, shared GPU deployments.

Reports
Standardized reports are available to users in HPE Synergy Composer. A pre-defined list of reports is available from the user interface or through the REST API. These reports can be exported to CSV or Microsoft Excel files or printed as PDF files
Custom reports can be created by querying the REST API to access additional data and information

Remote management (iLO Advanced)
HPE Synergy Composer enables iLO Advanced, a comprehensive lights-out remote management solution, on key Synergy components like compute modules

Environmental management
HPE Synergy Composer provides the user with a power and energy monitoring that scales with datacenter
Remote support Unlock the benefits of HPE Synergy technology investment by connecting to Hewlett Packard Enterprise for remote support
Reduce down time, increase diagnostic accuracy, and get a single consolidated view of user environment in the HPE Support Center portal

Unified API for open integration
A Unified API enables access to the full power of the management architecture, assuming appropriate permissions, via the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API and state-change message bus
RESTful APIs are the standard of the modern IT industry because they are widely used, simple, and efficient

HPE Global dashboard
HPE OneView global dashboard provides a unified view of multiple instances of HPE OneView appliances
The unified dashboard displays integrated information from HPE OneView running on c-Class BladeSystems, ProLiant DL (Rack) servers, and Synergy Composers

VMware vCenter, vRealize Operations, Log Insight and Orchestrator (Integrations)
HPE OneView for VMware vCenter seamlessly integrates the manageability features of HPE ProLiant, Synergy, BladeSystem, Virtual Connect, and Storage with VMware solutions
Gain deep control of virtualized HPE Converged Infrastructure environment-reducing the time it takes to make important changes, increase capacity or manage planned and unplanned downtime