Enabling Hybrid Cloud Anywhere with HPE CloudOps Software

In this CFD session, we explore how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the way enterprises provision, manage, and protect hybrid cloud environments with the HPE CloudOps Software suite, comprising HPE Morpheus Enterprise, HPE OpsRamp, and HPE Zerto. Including discussion and live demo of HPE’s orchestration and automation control plane for on-prem technologies like VMware, Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and public clouds, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and more.

HPE addresses the complexities of hybrid cloud environments with its CloudOps portfolio, which includes Morpheus, OpsRamp, and Zerto. Morpheus focuses on delivering self-service capabilities for provisioning VMs, containers, and application stacks across various environments, offering a unified catalog of services, a comprehensive API, a Terraform provider, and a ServiceNow plugin. It provides consistency in the provisioning experience and automates the dependencies involved, such as IP address assignment, DNS entries, Ansible scripts, observability agent installation, backup job creation, and cost allocation. Morpheus also includes a built-in cluster management engine for provisioning Kubernetes clusters and offers a KVM stack, now delivered as Morpheus VM Essentials, to provide core hypervisor capabilities.

OpsRamp is geared towards day two and beyond operations, focusing on observability and monitoring of infrastructure. It offers hybrid discovery, observability, and monitoring capabilities across compute, network, storage, virtualization, and containerization, supporting various cloud platforms and providing a unified view of the infrastructure. OpsRamp aims to correlate alerts, identify root causes, and integrate with ITSM platforms for incident management, as well as enabling intelligent automation for remediation. The platform’s architecture involves deploying OpsRamp gateways for on-prem infrastructure and using agents for servers, providing active monitoring and automation capabilities, with plans to incorporate user experience monitoring.

The integration between Morpheus and OpsRamp enables combined day-zero/one and day-two operations, with Morpheus handling provisioning and OpsRamp focusing on monitoring and management post-deployment. The two platforms can be linked to trigger operational workflows for remediation and present observability data within the Morpheus UI. Both platforms emphasize automation, API-driven approaches, and integration with existing tools and workflows, facilitating a unified and streamlined experience for managing hybrid cloud environments. Policies around tagging and access control were also discussed as essential features to support.