HPE GreenLake explained

Most major infrastructure vendors are offering some kind of consumption based IT models these days to satisfy their customers’ hunger for cloud experience. But hardware leasing is not enough, there is more, much more, to a rich end-to-end cloud experience.
HPE GreenLake is the most promising candidate to be the first to bring the cloud to on-prem.
You might have heard of it but I know it’s not be the easiest concept to wrap your head around. So, let me give it a shot at explaining HPE GreenLake.
Learn more about HPE GreenLake (official website):
www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html
Latest GreenLake updates (blog post by Bart Heungens):
www.bitcon.be/more-greenlake-m...
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[@barhoomo]

Markus, you Techie, that's an extremely smooth video to run on HPE's Greenlake Clouding solution. I have to say I loved it!

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Ibrahim! Appreciated. Glad to hear you liked it. 💪

[@ravis3754]

Excellent Markus....Nice presentation...Keep rocking....

[@MsLuGabriel]

Approach excelent. Clean and easy message. Congrats and Thanks very much

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Luciano! The pleasure is all mine. 😊

[@TechEnthusiastIncSupport]

Thanks for that! Actually, we are expanding this same approach, clean and easy message into online course format soon - so stay tuned! And we would love to use your comment as a testimonial on Tech Enthusiast’s web pages. Please let us know how you would feel about it and if your KZbin user ID & profile picture can be displayed alongside the quote! 😊It would mean a lot 🙏

[@whitepaper7678]

Thank you Markus, Your videos are awesome. Can you please make a video on HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, White...Paper? 😂 Indeed, would be awesome to make a video of ECP! I will try to add that to my todo. Stay tuned!

[@oscarmedellinalcaraz1910]

I´d like the explanations slower. Also is a great video to understand the main concepts.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thanks for the feedback, Oscar! I hear you. Maybe I will make another, more slow-paced and thorough, video of GreenLake in the future... 😋

[@MarkEWallace]

You can use KZbin’s built-in ability to control playback speed for that. Just FYI. It works well.

[@deansheley6512]

Very nice! Thank you, Sir! CISSP/CISM

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thanks, Dean.

[@nitingadgil4485]

Hi Markus, really great insight into HPE Greenlake. I believe IBM is also going very big with their Hybrid cloud version. Your comments please.. if possible can you come up with a video comparing hybrid offerings from these two giants?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Nitin and thanks! Yes, indeed...IBM is betting big on cloud, obviously they have the IBM Cloud competing againsta Azure, AWS and Google Cloud and they continue to focus even more on cloud by spinning off non-vital business functions. However, their focus is a bit different than that of HPE GreenLake for example - they are more focused on the traditional public cloud experience with on-prem Everything-as-a-Service being a side kick. For instance, HPE GreenLake and Dell Tech Apex are both all-in for on-prem EaaS. Though, things move very quickly these days so IBM could announce something new next week. 😉

[@aryehbarron4067]

@@TechEnthusiastInc great video, FYI IBM’s equivalent offering is Satellite and it seems they aren’t too happy to compete with Greenlake going forwards.

[@jainudeenahamedulla4959]

Hi Markus, Thanks for this simple awesome video, more curious to know Green Lake Cloud Solution.. Thanks buddy..

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Jainudeen! Greenlake is super interesting. And it's already evolved A LOT from the times I made this video. ;)

[@lizzethestrada6780]

Wonderfull video, very usefull

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you, Lizzeth! Happy to hear you liked it. 😊

[@sash991]

Thanks, this was much needed as a GreenLake champion salesman. Anyone out there is trying to sell GreenLake?

[@ZaleryHD]

yeh

[@huzaifulhassan6751]

Thanks mark Its really concept clearing video

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thanks Huzalf! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@huzaifulhassan6751]

@@TechEnthusiastInc can u please make a video on virtualization Cause if u make it then it will be easy to understand for lots of people Cause your way of explaining is awesome

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

What a great idea! I am actually planning on making a lot more videos about "the basics" of enterprise IT. One of the most important technologies around is virtualisation (in all its' forms) so yep, for sure gonna make one or two about this topic. Can't quite promise yet when, though...but stay tuned! 😉

[@huzaifulhassan6751]

@@TechEnthusiastInc thanks mark ❤️

[@brgautam]

This comment might be a little late, but out of curiosity, how does this compare with solutions like anthos(gcp) or rancher or ecs anywhere(aws)?

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Raghavendra! That's a really good question. There are lots of players in this field these days and they are all seemingly doing the exact same things. But there are quite big differences too. Here's a brief comparison: - GreenLake is a HPE brand that aims to bring cloud experience on-prem exactly as AWS. GCP, Azure and others are doing in the public cloud. This includes everything from one single UI to paying only for what you use, easy scalability of resources, contract termination at will etc. HPE still has a long way but they are working hard to get there. - Google Anthos is closest to HPE GreenLake of your examples but still, alone, a quite small subset of it. Anthos extends Google public cloud to on-prem by running Google Cloud services on on-prem hardware. Hardware must be Google Anthos certified. Closest comparable product from HPE portfolio would be HPE Ezmeral Lighthouse. - Rancher and ECS Anywhere are all about container management, running Kubernetes on any platform, including on-prem. Equivalent product from HPE portfolio would be HPE Ezmeral Runtime, which you can use as a part of GreenLake if you want. Phew, that was a long answer. Hope that helped a bit?

[@brgautam]

​@@TechEnthusiastInc Thank you very much for the reply. That helped me understand the difference. I'll try and get my hands dirty with Greenlake and the Ezmeral ecosystem. It sounds very promising for on-premise workloads.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Good to hear. I would summarize it like this: for all business critical enterprise apps find an on-prem solution like HPE GreenLake or Dell Apex. These guys know exactly what business critical apps require to run smoothly, that's been their bread and butter for decades. Public clouds' bread and butter, on the other hand, are simpler non-business critical unpredictable apps. So, it's not about choosing one over the other and going that direction all-in. That's an IT strategy of the past. It's all about finding the perfect location on a per app basis. But, this creates a whole new set of challenges for the platform vendors: how to provide unified management from edge to cloud for all customers and all their various apps? A holy grail that literally all companies in the industry are after these days. :)

[@brgautam]

@@TechEnthusiastInc I agree with you. I run data analytics workloads for the financial services industry. About 70% of it runs on aws and gcp using their serverless paradigms for big data and these work perfectly without any problem. The other 30% need to stay in the data center for compliance and proximity reasons. What I noticed is trash hardware + good software leads to relatively sub standard results. Good hardware + good software leads to relatively good results but not good enough. I am on a fact finding mission to see what works best in my particular scenario. A lot of mix and match going on. This is also because when it comes to operations, I'd want everything to be in one control plane(right now it's ecs) and have the ability to manage anything in 1 click. That makes my life a lot easier and peaceful.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

I hear you, public cloud has been the go-to location for big data / analytics for long and for good reasons. But you might want to check out the refreshed HPE Ezmeral portfolio. They announced some major updates to their portfolio just a month ago, specifically Ezmeral Unified Analytics and Ezmeral ML Ops.

[@dominix]

The most advanced Cloud "on prem" is certainly Nutanix.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Nutanix is indeed a very interesting solution and as I mentioned, I like their cloud story. However, their sole focus on HCI is a pro and a con at the same time. Con because HCI just doesn't satisfy all requirements and that is a huge limitation. Also, their scale (with every respect) isn't big enough to compete with the giants like HPE and Dell. Having said that, this is the situation today, future might hold some surprises for us. :)

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

I would also be very interested in hearing Dominix's and others opinion about this.

[@alldyallnite]

One of the biggest pros that works for Nutanix is the simplicity and one of the best customer service support. However, I also agree with Markus on the two points he raised.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

@alldyallnite. Completely agreed. This is something I hear repeatedly from the field: Nutanix's customer engagement and support is top notch. More generally - I keep wondering why not all enterprise IT vendors put more, MUCH more effort on pristine support experience while we know how critically important that is for all customers.

[@user-py7hf9zg5d]

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[@Sam-ne9ns]

Poor, scripted, no examples, jargon terms. Simply, GreenLake is network connection (installed hardware - like servers, switches and fabric) between cloud providers (like Azure or AWS) and on-prem data center (data center you own and manage which is already connected to your devices, such as phones, laptop, desktop, etc., aka edge). You can transfer the workload (apps and data) between your on-prem and cloud through containers (bundle of app + libraries + data + OS). You pay based on how much you consumed cloud services. All of this is managed through a portal on your device - called GreenLake Central! That's it really.

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Hi Sam! Thanks for the feedback. A couple of questions/comments: - Could you be a bit more specific what you mean by "poor" so that I know to do better with my future videos? - Trust me, if you were not pleased with this video, you don't want to see my half an hour unscripted rant. =D - I feel you, I like tangible examples too but we only had a very limited amount of time with this one so unfortunately can't cover everything. This was meant to be a very high-level overview to Greenlake but maybe I'll make more videos that go a bit deeper under the hood of Greenlake. - Can you give me examples of the jargon terms you didn't like? Asking since I hate many of them too. If "GreenLake is network connection between cloud providers and on-prem data center" is what you got from my video, I must have done a terrible job explaining Greenlake because that is a completely wrong and misleading definition of HPE Greenlake. Let me give it another shot: HPE Greenlake is a cloud just like AWS, with the difference that everything is running on-prem. And that's it. There's a lot of components and technologies involved like infrastructure, billing, monitoring, virtualisation, forecasting, support, containers, management etc. Just like with AWS, Azure, GCP, Dell Apex and any other cloud. Is HPE Greenlake right up there with the maturity and breath of functionality of AWS? Nope. Are they trying to get there? Heck yeah! How far are they? Maybe about 50%. Will they ever get to 100% of the AWS experience? Don't think so. Since there's hardware involved, experience can never be exactly as easy but I think 90% is possible.

[@wayttilsun1129]

@@TechEnthusiastInc I like that you reply to people in such a manner, even when the comment was years later. you earned my sub good sir

[@TechEnthusiastInc]

Thank you very much, wayt! Appreciate it. Great to have you around! 👏