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HPE ProLiant Gen11

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Contents
HPE ProLiant Gen11 dates .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Q1. What are the relevant dates for the “Next generation HPE ProLiant: compute engineered for your hybrid world”
announcement? ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
HPE ProLiant technologies........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Q2. What are the messaging pillars for HPE ProLiant Gen11? ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Q3. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide an intuitive cloud operating experience? ............................................................................................................................... 3
Q4. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide trusted security by design?................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Q5. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide optimized performance for your workloads? ...................................................................................................................... 4
Q6. What are some of the new innovations available in HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers?............................................................................................................................... 5
Q7. I see references to AMD with HPE ProLiant Gen11. What about Intel? ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Q8. Do HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers come standard with COM?...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Q9. What if my customer uses or prefers HPE OneView? ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Q10. Does COM require iLO Advanced? ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Q11. Will customers need to subscribe to COM? .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Q12. What servers does COM support? ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Q13. Do I have to subscribe to HPE GreenLake HWaaS offerings to use COM? ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Resources ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
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HPE ProLiant Gen11 dates

Q1. What are the relevant dates for the “Next generation HPE ProLiant: compute engineered for your
hybrid world” announcement?
A1. The following dates outline the announcement:
• November 1, 2022: HPE is making our “Next generation HPE ProLiant: compute engineered for your hybrid world” announcement on
November 1, 2022. We will talk about HPE ProLiant Gen11 and mention that 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and 4th Generation
Intel® Xeon® scalable processors are part of our next gen portfolio. We will not be including any information on performance for either
processor at this time.
• November 10, 2022: AMD is making their announcement for the 4th Generation AMD EPYC processor on November 10, 2022. As of
that date, we can talk freely about the 4th Generation AMD EPYC processor and can start taking orders for HPE ProLiant Gen11 systems
(HPE ProLiant DL325 / DL345 / DL365 / DL385 Gen11)
• December 5, 2022: CTR for our HPE ProLiant Gen11 systems (HPE ProLiant DL325 / DL345 / DL365 / DL385 Gen11) will occur on
December 5, 2022, and the servers will start shipping.

HPE ProLiant technologies

Q2. What are the messaging pillars for HPE ProLiant Gen11?
A2. These key HPE ProLiant Gen11 messages are:

• Intuitive (cloud operating experience)

• Trusted (security by design)
• Optimized (performance for your workloads)

Q3. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide an intuitive cloud operating experience?
A3. The following describe the HPE ProLiant Gen11 experience:

• Modify lifecycle management with cloud simplicity. Firmware updates are the number one pain point with server management—with
HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM), you can achieve 5X faster server firmware updates. Monitor and manage global
server environment from a single console—easily onboard thousands of distributed devices. Bring enterprise security and consistent,
compliant processes to the entire distributed compute infrastructure.
• Unify compute management with a centralized console for self-service operations. View health and firmware status of all servers
across the distributed environment from a single main dashboard. Gain new sustainability insights—Carbon Footprint reports let you see
emission metrics for individual servers and the full environment.
• Reduce manual efforts and gain support efficiencies. Automated tasks help speed server updates, mitigate risk, and reduce time spent
preparing and running system updates. REST APIs update servers with bulk scripted actions and set policy-based firmware compliance
baselines. Customer uptime is enhanced via automated monitoring and supportability with instant notifications of critical issues and
automatic case creation and support requests for hardware failures.

Q4. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide trusted security by design?
A4. From silicon to software, from factory to cloud, and from generation to generation, HPE ProLiant is engineered with a fundamental
security approach to defend against increasingly complex threats through an uncompromising focus to deliver constant security
advancements that’s built into our DNA. Protect your infrastructure, workloads, and data from threats to hardware, and risks from third-party
software, with a trusted edge-to-cloud security posture built on an HPE compute core hardened through a proven, zero-trust approach to
security.
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HPE continues to lead and deliver infrastructure security innovations, from edge to cloud, with a fundamental zero-trust lifecycle approach.
HPE Silicon Root of Trust secures millions of lines of firmware code. Customer security is enhanced through:
• HPE zero-trust architecture—Platform certificates and iDevID and TPM integrated into the server
• HPE GreenLake Compute Ops Management—Policy-driven firmware updates, security patches, and AES-256 encryption for all your data
in the platform

HPE ProLiant is uncompromising, leading the industry standards through collaboration with open-standards groups such as DMTF for
SPDM—Security Protocol and Data Model. Platform component authentication secures potential entry points against security threats that
can compromise the entire server infrastructure. Through iLO6 verification, authentication of PCIe firmware with Security Protocol and Data
Model (SPDM) ensures component integrity. Select PCIe storage and network controllers with SPDM certification will be available with
Gen11 servers: Broadcom storage and network controllers. The value of compute security element of HPE ProLiant servers extends to
services within HPE GreenLake.
A trusted and protected infrastructure begins with a secure supply chain. HPE trusted supply chain is an option that provides our customers
the optimized protection and confidence for HPE ProLiant servers: from the trusted suppliers to the manufacturing facility, and while in
transit to the customer’s end destination.

Q5. How does HPE ProLiant Gen11 provide optimized performance for your workloads?
A5. HPE ProLiant Gen11 is efficient, accelerated, and open. Get the performance you demand to accelerate any workload—from the data
center to the edge—with HPE ProLiant compute that’s engineered for the hybrid environment. Deploy seamlessly, while achieving optimal
performance for demanding applications requiring the most advanced graphics and data acceleration. Address new wave of data center
needs with an open approach that delivers efficiencies for cloud-native workloads at scale. Achieve advantageous efficiencies spanning
operational and performance economics to power apps and accelerate innovation everywhere data lives.

Efficient—expect more from your infrastructure

Future proof the business with HPE ProLiant Gen11 compute that delivers the efficiency, scalability, and economics to accelerate business
outcomes while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). Consolidate more workloads and increase ROI with breakthrough performance of
next gen compute.

Accelerated—more graphics capabilities than ever before

Empower the business to innovate with advanced GPU accelerators on HPE ProLiant Gen11 ultra-scalable architecture. With up to 33%
more GPU density and flexibility to optimize scale, you can power a wide range of graphics and compute use cases within the data center
and at the edge for AI, ML, rendering, and data intensive applications.

Open—an open approach to the most demanding workloads

Grow the business at scale with an open approach to industry standards for innovation of advanced technology in the data center and at the
edge, and flexible management of cloud native workloads.

• Deliver scale-out performance with greater energy efficiency for cloud native workloads using HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11.
– With 128 cores per socket, it delivers predictable performance and density for cloud service providers, digital service providers, and
digital-first enterprises.
– Choice of management for cloud-native workloads with industry leading HPE iLO, or expand your open-source strategy with OpenBMC
on optimized cloud-native silicon of HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11.

• Enable more infrastructure as code with expanded support for industry standard protocols like Redfish, PLDM and SPDM.
• Benefit from increased adoption of Open Compute Project (OCP) standards driving better standardization across the data center with
stronger support and expanded capacity for OCP standard devices, including storage controllers.
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Q6. What are some of the new innovations available in HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers?
A6. With the introduction of HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, HPE is bringing the following to our customers:

• Increased security with:

– Added protection for select PCIe storage controller and networking devices leveraging SPDM for component authentication
– Secure supply chain now available worldwide
– TPM for securely storing server store passwords, certificates, and encryption keys is now fully integrated into server and can’t be
removed (preventing illicit access)
– Platform Certificates and IDevID by default with iLO 6

• More graphics or accelerator capabilities with double the bandwidth and more GPU capacity (4 double-wide or 8 single-wide for DL385)
• Improved performance
– PCIe Gen5 offers twice the bandwidth of PCIe Gen4
– Up to 96 core processors with 4th Generation AMD EPYC (an increase of 50% over 3rd Generation AMD EPYC)

• Enhanced M.2 hot-plug boot device portfolio

• A new modular drive form-factor that supports a greater density of NVMe drives with EDSFF, offering PCIe Gen5 speeds.

Q7. I see references to AMD with HPE ProLiant Gen11. What about Intel?
A7. Intel based HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers will be delivered with Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon (formerly known as Sapphire Rapids) soon.

HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM)

Q8. Do HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers come standard with COM?
A8. Yes, with HPE ProLiant Gen11, HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) is being hard-attached to CTO models (through
OCA). This will appear as a separate line item on the quote, using R6Z89AAE (COM Std, 3yr, upfront). Those ordering BTO units may order
COM separately via ASQ (As a Service Quoter).

Q9. What if my customer uses or prefers HPE OneView?

A9. Customers can swap out the HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) SKU with one of two HPE OneView SKUs
(E5Y35AAE - OV Advanced Flex E-LTU or P8B26AAE - OV Adv w/o iLO Adv Flex E-LTU).

Q10. Does COM require iLO Advanced?

A10. No, HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) does not require iLO Advanced to function; it leverages the iLO Standard
license functionality.

Q11. Will customers need to subscribe to COM?

A11. HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) is a SaaS offering available as a monthly subscription. However, to provide
flexibility for our customers, it can also be acquired as an upfront purchase or in quarterly or annual installments.

Q12. What servers does COM support?

A12. HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) supports iLO 5 based HPE ProLiant ML, DL, and HPE MicroServer Gen10 /
Gen10 Plus / Gen10 Plus v2 and iLO 6 based HPE ProLiant ML, DL, and MicroServer Gen11 servers. This excludes HPE Synergy and HPE
ProLiant RL300.

Q13. Do I have to subscribe to HPE GreenLake HWaaS offerings to use COM?

A13. No, an HPE GreenLake HWaaS subscription is not required. However, users will need a free HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform account to
use COM as well as to onboard devices, manage licenses, and set up users.
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Resources
• Find all of the selling resources in the HPE Next Generation Compute (HPE ProLiant Gen11) Announcement Briefcase.

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