HPE VM Essentials Software Compatibility Matrix

This section contains the list of hardware that has been tested and confirmed to support HPE VM Essentials Software and HPE VM Essentials clusters at scale. Hardware not included in this list may be compatible but is untested. Using untested hardware may limit the scope of support services available from HPE support teams.

At product launch, compatibility and scale testing has been limited to HPE hardware. As time goes on, third-party hardware will be supported in addition to HPE hardware. This document will be updated over time as new hardware SKUs are tested for compatibility and performance at scale.

Server Hardware Support

Hardware Family

Platform Type

Hardware SKU

Comments

HPE ProLiant

Intel 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen 12

HPE ProLiant

Intel 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen 10+

HPE ProLiant

Intel 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

Intel 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen 12

HPE ProLiant

AMD 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

AMD 1 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL365 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

AMD 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

AMD 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

Intel 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL340 Gen 12

HPE ProLiant

Intel 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10+

HPE ProLiant

Intel 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

Intel 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen 11

HPE ProLiant

Intel 2 RU server

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 12

HPE ProLiant

Intel tower server

HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen 12

HPE Synergy

Intel single slot blade

HPE Synergy 480 Gen 11 (local storage)

Note

Currently, only HPE hardware is supported but support for third-party hardware is planned for the future.

Storage Hardware Support

Hardware Family

Platform Type

Comments

HPE Alletra Storage

HPE Alletra 5000 (5010, 5030, 5050) (iSCSI)

Update storage hardware to the latest available firmware

HPE Alletra Storage

HPE Alletra 6000 (6010, 6030, 6050, 6070, 6090) (iSCSI)

Update storage hardware to the latest available firmware

HPE Alletra Storage

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 (iSCSI, Fibre Channel)

Update storage hardware to the latest available firmware

Note

For more detail, please visit the storage matrix

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Support

Partner

Product Name

Product Version

Deployment

Validation Type

Resources

Veeam

Backup and Replication

12.3

Agent-based

Partner

Technical Brief, Blog (part 1, part 2, part 3)

Cohesity

Data Cloud

7.1.2 and later

Agent-based

Partner

Technical Brief

Cohesity Veritas

NetBackup

11

Agent-based

Partner

Oracle

Database

19c

Single instance only; Oracle RAC support TBD

HPE

Technical Brief, Blog

Microsoft

SQL Server

SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022

Single instance with Availability Groups

HPE

Technical Brief, Blog

MongoDB

Enterprise Advanced

8.0.0

HPE

Technical Brief, Blog, Video

Omnissa

Horizon

8.13.1 (Build 11490723527)

For test/dev and POC only; not for production environments

HPE

Blog, Technical Brief

Note

Applications have been validated within the bounds of the supported HPE VM Essentials functionality. Always check the HPE VME feature list to determine whether specific functionality is supported by the HPE VME hypervisor (ex. shared disk access).

Most modern applications like databases were designed with very “loose” dependance on hardware infrastructure. They can typically run on a variety of hypervisors including virtual machines and containers. The respective ISV vendor typically only specifies the supported underlying operating system (Guest OS) but does not require certification of any hypervisor. However, there can be specific features that a customer deployment of these applications requires at a hypervisor or infrastructure level. For example, a Microsoft SQL Server Failover cluster instance requires a shared disk between multiple SQL Server VMs. Oracle, similarly, requires shared disks for an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) setup. Therefore, it needs to be always validated whether the specific deployment requires certain features and whether these are supported by HPE VM Essentials in its latest release.

Select ISV applications require “full stack” certifications including OS, hypervisor, compute and storage devices, or even the specific storage connectivity protocol. SAP HANA and related SAP applications are a typical example; so are some Healthcare Electronic Health Record (EDR) applications. If you or your customer plans on running one of these applications, please reach out to your HPE account team.

Hypervisor OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix

OS Vendor

OS Family

Compute Platform

Storage Platform

Canonical

Ubuntu 22.04 Server

x86

Alletra; iSCSI
Guest OS

Partner

Product Name

Product Version

Guest OS

Validation Type

Resources

RHEL

RHEL

9.3

RHEL 9.3

HPE

CentOS

CentOS

8

CentOS 8

HPE

SUSE

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

15-SP6

SUSE 15-SP6

HPE

Microsoft

Windows Server

2022

Windows Server 2022

HPE