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3. HPE ProLiant Integrated Systems | 10
With HPE Composable Fabric, organizations can use Nutanix Prism Central (a multicluster view)
as their primary configuration interface—offering benefits such as:
• Deploy in 60 minutes or less. IT teams can start small, typically with just three servers (nodes),
and easily scale capacity (storage, compute, and network) without limits.
• 100 percent linear scaling. Each node adds a proportionate amount of storage and server
capacity with no guesswork. To double the overall capacity of a Nutanix deployment, just
double the number of nodes. This scale-out design extends to the HPE Composable Fabric as
well. With each ToR Fabric Module (switch) the total performance capacity of the fabric grows.
Organizations can have the same ease-of-use experience whether deploying a single rack or
multiple HPE ProLiant DX racks of nodes.
• Upgrade the entire software stack with a single click and without disruption to the live
environment.
HPE Composable Fabric for Nutanix is an ideal solution for enterprises to quickly configure
and cost-effectively manage their Nutanix enterprise cloud infrastructure as an alternative to
traditional networking approach of connecting HPE ProLiant DX nodes across clusters.
We have adapted this information from the HPE business white paper HPE Composable Fabric
Software-defined network fabric for the composable infrastructure, the HPE white paper HPE
Composable Fabric for Nutanix Enterprise Clouds, and the ESG white paper HPE Composable
Fabric: Scaling Nutanix-based HPE ProLiant DX integrated systems.
For additional detail, refer to the HPE technical white paper HPE Composable Fabric: Data
Center Fabric Explained.
3.2. HPE ProLiant DX Management, Monitoring, and Upgrades
HPE ProLiant DX systems have been extensively tested and certified jointly by Nutanix and HPE
to have a seamless end-to-end experience. Administrators can easily apply upgrades to Nutanix
AOS, their hypervisor, and HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) firmware in a nondisruptive
way using Life Cycle Manager (LCM) through Nutanix Prism. Nutanix Prism lets you manage
the entire HPE ProLiant DX infrastructure as a single entity. Firmware updates can either
reside in the Nutanix LCM repository or in a customer's on-site repository. In either location,
firmware updates are in-band, without HPE iLO network access. Connecting to a server's iLO
web interface allows you to manage each server independently and view details such as fan
speed, temperature, and hardware logs. You can also access the remote console through the iLO
interface to view the on-screen state of the server.
