Composable Fabric Deployment and Integration Service for Composable Rack data sheet

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Data sheet
Feature Delivery specifications
Service planning This service is delivered remotely and is designed to provide the customer with a detailed plan and schedule for the delivery of the
HPE Composable Fabric Deployment and Integration Service for Composable Cloud.
During service planning, HPE conducts remotely delivered service planning meetings with the customer’s designated stakeholders to
communicate the list of service activities and confirm that the pre-deployment prerequisites have been addressed.
During these meetings, HPE:
• Works with the customer to review the service details, deliverables, and estimated timelines
• Reviews customer-provided documents, which include but are not limited to current network architecture and principles to eectively
scope and plan for the services
• Identifies any additional changes to the existing network required to prepare for the integration of new HPE Composable Fabric products
and documents them in the delivery plan and schedule
• Details any product licensing and network prerequisites that must be fulfilled for HPE to perform the services
• Identifies any additional information required to allow HPE to deploy resources and begin service delivery
• Ascertains possible dates for deployment and integration completion
• Creates a mutually agreeable project plan and schedule, as well as determines the appropriate mix of technical and business resources
necessary to implement the project
HPE works remotely with the customer to coordinate the necessary activities, including identifying any service prerequisites, scheduling,
and the coordination of services.
Network integration
readiness verification for
HPE Composable Cloud
The HPE Composable Cloud with Composable Fabric solution is specifically designed to bring public cloud agility, scalability, and simplicity
to the enterprise data center. The solution integrates HPE Composable Cloud with HPE Composable Fabric to deliver a comprehensive and
fully integrated hyperconverged solution that includes compute, storage, virtualization, and networking.
While delivering the service, an HPE network specialist assists the customer by scheduling remotely delivered collaboration meetings that
are aimed at helping the customer to address the following tasks for a single HPE Composable Cloud location. Depending on the customer
requirements, HPE works remotely or on-site during service delivery. The verification phase includes:
• Reviewing key elements of the purchased solution and the associated high-level design and existing core network as applicable, including
media, transceiver, routing protocols, loop protection, and more.
• Evaluating the recommended network connectivity between the HPE Composable Cloud specified hypervisor of choice and the
HPE Composable Fabric Modules. HPE also advises the customer of the dierent connectivity strategies and load balancing methods
where appropriate, to connect to the modules.
• Reviewing predefined customer management infrastructure such as VMware vSphere® 6.x based management infrastructure for the
HPE Composable Fabric and OneView management appliance(s) and management networks
• Reviewing with customer the required credentials for vSphere management and credentials to be created for the HPE Composable Fabric
and HPE OneView components
• Analyzing the HPE Composable Fabric management user-based roles and explaining typical assignments as needed
• Reviewing the customer’s Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP plan as it pertains to the HPE Composable Fabric integration
• Examining the existing customer provided DNS and network time protocol (NTP) service configuration and associated fully qualified
domain name (FQDN) entries and settings
• Reviewing the customer preference of self-signed versus CA signed certificates for SSL security for the HPE Composable Fabric
components
• Advising the customer on connectivity strategies and network interface card (NIC) teaming methods where appropriate
• Providing low-level design documentation to integrate the HPE Composable Fabric solution to the customer’s network
HPE Composable Cloud
network configuration
While delivering this service remotely, an HPE network specialist assists the customer with the advanced network configuration and
integration of the HPE Composable Fabric solution. This service includes advanced network deployment, configuration, integration, and
commissioning of:
• HPE Composable Fabric software downloads
• HPE Composable Fabric Manager controller and HPE OneView deployment
• Configuration of the HPE OneView Logical Switch and up to two server profile types
• Deployment and configuration of the HPE Composable Cloud integration pack(s)
• Installation verification testing
Table 1. Service features