Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is beefing up its hyperconverged infrastructure platform SimpliVity today with artificial intelligence.

The new AI capabilities are intended to help create a more intelligent virtualized information technology environment that can manage the resources it uses by itself, resulting in more efficiency and better performance without any manual tuning or configuration.

HPE SimpliVity is the company’s main hyperconverged infrastructure platform, comprising an appliance and software that combines compute, storage and networking resources into a single system to reduce data center complexity.

The platform includes a hypervisor for virtualized computing, software-defined storage and virtualized networking. It enables multiple nodes to be clustered together to create pools of shared compute and storage resources, designed for more convenient consumption.

The new version of HPE SimplVity is the first to be integrated with HPE’s AI-powered predictive analytics service InfoSight. With InfoSight, SimpliVity users can gain more visibility into their HCI systems and performance. More important, it provides the ability to automate capacity management. The new feature has already been tested in beta by early adopters.

“The extra efficiency that HPE InfoSight brings to HPE SimpliVity is awesome,” said Warwick Brown, infrastructure architecture and security lead at Carlisle Homes Pty Ltd., an Australian home builder offered up by HPE. “InfoSight predicts and reports on metrics that my team cares about – where capacity is being used in clusters, hosts, even at the VM level, and when we might run out of space. That saves us lots of time.”

In a second update, HPE SimpliVity now offers one-click cluster upgrades. Customers can now upgrade their firmware, hypervisor and SimpliVity software across each node with just a single click, without any disruption to ongoing business operations.

SimpliVity’s data backup capabilities have also been enhanced through a tighter integration with the company’s HPE StoreOnce appliances. They’re used to deduplicate data as it’s created on media servers or backup servers before it’s transferred to a centralized location.

The integration is designed for companies that run applications at the network edge. It allows them to failover an unlimited number of edge sites should any disaster strike and recover them as fast as possible to minimize business downtime.

The company said HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity is available worldwide starting today at no extra charge, while HPE StoreOnce for HPE SimpliVity will launch early in the new year.

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