Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a generational leap forward for the industry’s most advanced private cloud portfolio[i], redefining what a private cloud delivers to customers through nearly a decade of leadership and HPE Morpheus Software. HPE is transforming how enterprises modernise hybrid IT for cost efficiency, performance and simplicity and is announcing the following:
- HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is now available with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, which reduces up to 90 percent of VM license costs[ii] with multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud consumption. The new savings add to the estimated 2.5X[iii] lower total cost of ownership (TCO) provided by the industry’s leading disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI)[iv].
- HPE Morpheus Software family is generally available and includes HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for virtualised workloads and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software for unified cloud management. Both software offerings include the HVM hypervisor from HPE and are licensed per-socket to reduce TCO. VM Essentials customers will be able to upgrade to full HPE Morpheus Enterprise.
- New services simplify virtualisation modernisation for customers of all sizes.
“Enterprises are at a pivotal moment in IT modernisation where they must address escalating management complexity and increasing virtualisation costs to free investments for core growth areas. We are the leader in disaggregated infrastructure and our private cloud combines that leadership with new software for unified virtualisation and cloud management. HPE is giving customers the choice, simplicity and cost efficiencies to outpace the competition and re-invest in innovation,” said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud and CTO at HPE.
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition offers radical savings and simplicity through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials
While many IT infrastructure providers are now recognising the cost benefits of disaggregated infrastructure, HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. Business Edition, available as dHCI or HCI, enables organisations to choose optimised architecture for VMs from the edge to the data centre. VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, allowing customers to mix and match VMs to suit their needs.
- Proven, enterprise-grade, virtualisation solution: VM Essentials is designed for global deployment and supported by comprehensive enterprise services available from the infrastructure to the workload.
- AI-driven experience from setup to operations: HPE automates infrastructure setup and lifecycle management for Business Edition and AIOps predict and prevents up to 86% of issues[v], freeing IT resources.
“HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has paid for itself with what we are saving on legacy support contracts, as-a-service consumption, datacenter space and energy efficiency,” said Roberto Valenta, corporate technology & operations IT manager, Aeropuertos Argentina. “The performance, scalability and reliability are the backbone of our mission-critical workloads from flight tracking to airport arrivals and departures. Business Edition powers our vision to deliver faster, stress-free services that reduce waiting, check-in, and security times for flyers.”
Commvault, a leader in cyber resilience and data protection solutions, will be the first VM Essentials ecosystem partner to support image-based VM backup and recovery with an upcoming release in May.
HPE Morpheus Software unifies cloud management and lowers costs
New HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software unifies cloud management for larger enterprises and service providers. From a simple interface, organisations can manage and govern virtualised, container-based and third-party runtimes across bare metal, on-prem and public cloud infrastructure. HPE Morpheus Enterprise automates application provisioning to deliver approximately 150X faster deployment of apps into virtually any hypervisor or cloud plus up to 30 percent lower cloud costs with analytics-powered rightsizing[vi].
Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials are hardware-agnostic, standalone software and are newly validated to run on Dell PowerEdge servers and NetApp AFF arrays, in addition to HPE ProLiant Compute Gen 11 and Gen12 servers. New HPE ProLiant Gen 12 servers enable customers to consolidate and save up to 27 percent on virtualisation software, 65 percent on power per year and a 7:1 reduced data center footprint[vii].
The combination of VM Essentials and HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 lowers TCO by up to 48 percent[viii], increases performance by up to 10X[ix], and provides microsegmentation, DPU (data processing unit) acceleration and enhanced security. VM Essentials also provides simple, granular storage management for the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.
HPE simplifies virtualisation transformation and modernisation with enterprise-grade services
New HPE Cloud Platform Services – Virtualisation Modernisation ease virtualisation modernisation. HPE Services provides a dedicated assessment, an end-to-end process for robust landing zones, and services for re-platforming workloads, modernising infrastructure, migrating data, educating team members, and managing infrastructure to reduce overhead. HPE was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment[x].
Availability
- HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is available now. New Business Edition systems with HPE SimpliVity will be available in the third quarter of 2025.
- HPE Morpheus Software integration for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is available today and is planned for June for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000.
- HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software is available now as standalone software.
[i] Based on HPE analysis of the portfolios of major infrastructure providers and private cloud capabilities including unified private cloud management and control plane, managed or self-managed deployment, runtimes supported, infrastructure architecture types including hyperconverged or disaggregated, as well as storage and compute.
[ii] Based on internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing versus available market data on cost of existing virtualisation licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
[iii] Based on Enterprise Strategy Group, Economic Validation: Analysing the Economic Benefits of Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, May 2024, and internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing versus available market data on cost of existing virtualisation licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
[iv] HPE introduced the industry’s first disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure in June 2019 and also introduced disaggregated storage in April 2023.
[v] HPE Substantiation Document
[vi] Based on comparative before and after studies via interviews with HPE Morpheus Software install base
[vii] SPEC and the names SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results [SPECrate2017_int_base: #36693 (1), #36691 (2), #20893 (3), #37007 (4)] are published as of 01-01-2025, see spec.org, and compared against a 48-core estimated Gen12 system. All rights reserved. (5) Power savings based on the Thermal Design Power of the systems. (6) VM software savings per term of the license. Virtualisation savings analysis based on core-based licenses as at April 9th, 2025. The calculations were made by comparing to a Gen12 with 48 cores per socket. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
[viii] Based on internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing versus available market data on cost of existing virtualisation licensing. Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice.
[ix] Based on scaling of HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 with ~800G Firewall compared to ~ 80G Firewall from a leading vendor.
[x] IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment, Doc #US53312825
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