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Synergy & Superdome

The composable and the mission-critical x86: for the workloads demanding scale, memory and availability out of the ordinary.

FOCUS · EXTREME X86Composable infrastructure and 32-socket machines: when the normal server isn't enough
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01 · What it is

HPE Synergy & Superdome Flex, made clear.

Two answers for off-scale needs: Synergy — the composable infrastructure where compute, storage and network get recomposed via software for the changing workloads — and Superdome Flex, the mission-critical x86 scaling up to 32 sockets and dozens of TB of RAM in a single image: the home of the giant in-memory databases and the most extreme SAP HANA workloads.

Composable
resources recomposable via software: infrastructure as code, on the iron
32 socket
Superdome Flex: a single machine where others build clusters
RAS
mission-critical resilience: memory and CPUs that isolate themselves at the fault
HPE Synergy & Superdome Flex
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The two machines

Variable & giant workloadsshifting projects · enormous DBs
Synergy · the composable frame
Superdome · extreme scale-up
flexibility · size
OneView / composerthe iron orchestrated
The serious machine roomwhere compromise doesn't live
When you need big, or you need fluid

The right use case

These machines are justified by the numbers: the honest sizing before the proposal — always.

Extra-large HANA

Superdome for the biggest TDI appliances: the in-memory that doesn't break apart.

Governed recomposition

On Synergy the profiles move: flexibility with rules, not chaos.

Proven resilience

RAS features and failover tested: the mission-critical gets commissioned, not presumed.

03 · In depth

Composable and scale-up: the two extremes

Synergy is the composable infrastructure: the frames host compute and storage modules that the profiles (OneView) recompose via software — the project's server is born from a template and the iron gets reused; Superdome Flex is the scale-up: from 4 to 32 sockets and up to 48TB of RAM in a single machine with mission-critical RAS (self-healing memory, hardware partitions), for giant SAP HANAs, Epic, in-memory computing: when vertical scale isn't negotiable.

  • Composable — compute and storage recomposed from templates: the project without a purchase order
  • OneView — the profiles that dress the iron: the server's identity is software
  • Superdome 32S — up to 32 sockets and 48TB: the largest single system in x86
  • RAS — self-healing memory and partitions: the real mission-critical
  • HANA XXL — the scale-up instances beyond the normal appliances' limits
  • nPar — the hardware partitions: two isolated worlds in the same chassis
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

48 TB
the maximum Superdome Flex RAM
32
the sockets in a single system
min
the Synergy re-provisioning from templates
99,999%
Superdome-class availability
The extremes demand craft: HANA sizing, partitions and composable templates — the special projects are our terrain.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Giant SAP HANAs

The scale-up when the scale-out doesn't work.

Extreme consolidation

Many critical workloads, a single governed system.

Shifting environments

Projects and seasons: the infrastructure that reconfigures itself.

For 95% of the cases a ProLiant is enough; for the other 5% these exist — and we know when to propose them.