Today, businesses are looking to accelerate the delivery of highly-virtualized application environments. This approach helps ensure predictable and efficient use of IT, facility and staff resources to drive business innovation. In order to meet these goals, robust, flexible, and agile network infrastructures are needed to meet business requirements, lowing cost of ownership and adhering to IT governance and compliance policies.
Unleash the potential of your infrastructure with a core element of the
HP Converged Infrastructure architecture. FlexFabric provides a flexible, integrated, and evolutionary foundation for a fully-virtualized data center network.
HP’s FlexFabric architecture combines advanced, standards-based networking technologies with a new modular architecture that optimizes a full range of virtualization capabilities. This enables businesses to ensure they meet requirements, lower cost of ownership, and increase time-to-service.
HP FlexFabric connects servers to a virtualized, high performance and low-latency network that consolidates multiple protocols into a single fabric to dramatically lower network complexity and cost. This unique, wire-once approach will enable businesses to combine Ethernet and storage networks onto one converged fabric that can easily flex with changing workloads.
This open architecture uses industry standards to unify storage, server and network resources to provide seamless interoperability with existing data center core network infrastructure. Combining intelligence at the server edge with an advanced orchestration and management layer, FlexFabric enables virtualization-aware networking, predictable performance and rapid, secure, business-driven provisioning of data center resources. HP FlexFabric will deliver the following:
With an evolutionary approach to deploying a network infrastructure to enable today’s highly-virtualized application environments, businesses can deploy FlexFabric networks today – employing current technologies and tools from HP ProCurve and HP BladeSystem
Virtual Connect portfolios.
HP ProCurve brings a flexible, open standards-based set of provisioning automation and network infrastructure tools to put businesses on a firm path to a fully-virtualized, highly-scalable, cost effective FlexFabric solution.
Provisioning automation
To meet the demand of more flexible and adaptive application environments, the challenge of streamlining organizational structures and workflow processes has forced businesses to look to automation. To meet this challenge, HP ProCurve offers the Data Center Connection Manager (DCM); a FlexFabric network management toolset that reduces network complexity and manages operation cost through automated provisioning technologies.
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Network infrastructure
HP ProCurve's expansive portfolio of switch technology allows businesses to streamline and unify network infrastructure, management and support with a consistent interface that reduces network complexity. Simplify your data center with seamless connectivity to ensure deployment and management effectiveness. These tools also provide organizations the flexibility they need to adapt to change and take advantage of its opportunities.
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