Guy Currier on HPE’s Edge Focus with DL145, iLO, and GreenLake at the HPE ProLiant Deep Dive Event

Well, definitely one of the things I was here for was the Edge, and I think HPE also is showing that they're here for the Edge too. So we actually looked at a few things. We looked at one possible edge device, the ProLiant, uh, DL 1 45, but we also looked at, um, the, uh, the, um, I-I-I-L-O, um, which they're version seven.

It's a chip that they put on board all their servers. Right. It interesting.

That is also related to Edge because, um, so, you know, the, the DL 1 45, the server is like ruggedized and you know, it's suitable for certain operating environments, typical of the edge. But then there are things like security issues and, uh, ILO handles security issues 'cause it's an onboard chip that can, um, you know, if physical security is compromising, get triggered. There's a lot of things ILO does.

Yeah. So, um, that was my big takeaway from the first part of the day, um, was my hopes and dreams were fulfilled with respect to Edge. So GreenLake is the, um, HPE, um, application resource management, cloud-based console.

Right. Controls a lot of stuff within hp. It's networking as well, storage and that sort of thing.

The, this was really interesting, the fact that HP has this proprietary onboard management security chip, which is ILO. Right. And GreenLake can manage servers through that.

So now you have, again, going back to edge, an edge scenario where things like patches, updates, fixes, security configurations, things like that, that GreenLake normally handles. You tend to think a GreenLake is like data center and data center server management. But the fact that you're taking this piece of hardware, this little chip with you, with every one of these HPE ProLiant servers out into the field or whatever it is, makes GreenLake also an edge resource management and security management platform.

That was really interesting. That was new to me. So DL 41 45 is interesting.

You say successor 'cause it's in Gen 11 right now, but Gen 12 is what they're rolling out now. Yeah. Um, it's k it's a funny, it's, it's a kind of a tweener.

Um, it's, it's to u like a regular rack server, but it's width and depth are a lot shorter than, or a lot, you know, smaller than a rack. Yeah. It's not really a big deal with depth.

There's a lot of rack units that aren't all that deep, but the width being only, I think 15 inches is much narrower than a typical rack. Nonetheless, it is a rack style server. Um, you can see it going on a sled or something like that.

So what does that mean usage wise? It's a ruggedized, uh, server. Now, edge means different things for different organizations and for different applications, but a very typical type of edge deployment requires actually a couple of nodes, two or three nodes.

So like a mini cluster, um, that's on a location in a factory, in a retail location. It could also, when thinking rugged, think about it in, in, uh, in the middle of a field. Mm-hmm.

You know, or on a ranch or something like that. So when you're thinking about edge, you think first about where it's gonna go and then what industries need that. So a a an environment with certain types of extreme conditions, and then you pull back to the types of applications.

So there's lots of AI inference going on, um, in factories, in agricultural, um, even in retail where, uh, it, it's more like computer vision than generative ai, you know, for security or for stock keeping or for all those other sorts of things. So that takes you in this chain from this box. Okay, it's a box now where do I use it?

I just gave a few examples right there. And you know, obviously customers themselves are a lot more creative in terms of, you know what, they might use something like that for.