HPE Alletra dHCI 650 Gen12 Node

The HPE Alletra dHCI 650 Gen12 Node is a purpose-built disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure compute platform that decouples compute and storage scaling cycles, addressing the core inefficiency of traditional HCI architectures. Built on the Intel Xeon 6 processor family with support for both Performance-core and Efficiency-core configurations, the node connects to HPE Alletra MP storage arrays over NVMe over Fabrics, delivering block storage latency equivalent to locally attached NVMe while retaining full storage-pool flexibility. The result is a system where organizations can add compute nodes to support growing VM density without purchasing additional storage capacity, or expand storage independently as data requirements grow.

At the platform level, the dHCI 650 Gen12 Node integrates with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, enabling a consistent cloud operating model on-premises. The node supports VMware vSphere and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI hypervisor stacks, with HPE InfoSight and CloudPhysics providing AI-driven workload placement, capacity forecasting, and anomaly detection. The NVMe-oF fabric connectivity is delivered over 25GbE or 100GbE Ethernet using NVMe/TCP, eliminating proprietary fabric dependencies and leveraging standard data center switching infrastructure.

The HPE Alletra dHCI 650 Gen12 Node is specifically optimized for latency-sensitive, density-driven workloads including virtual desktop infrastructure at scale, test and development environments, and general-purpose private cloud consolidation. Its 2U chassis accommodates high memory capacity and a rich PCIe Gen 5 expansion ecosystem for GPU acceleration, RDMA-capable NICs, and SmartNIC offload, making it equally suitable for AI-inferencing workloads running alongside traditional VMs without storage contention penalties.

Ideal for

• Enterprise VDI deployments requiring independent scaling of compute nodes to support additional desktop sessions without overprovisioning shared NVMe-oF storage pools
• Private cloud consolidation where multiple application tiers with differing compute-to-storage ratios are hosted on a common disaggregated infrastructure platform
• Dev/test environments demanding rapid node provisioning and decommissioning with persistent storage volumes maintained on Alletra MP independent of compute lifecycle
• AI inference workloads co-located with traditional VM workloads, leveraging PCIe Gen 5 GPU expansion while consuming storage from centralized high-performance NVMe-oF pools
• Healthcare and financial services organizations running latency-sensitive transactional applications that require sub-millisecond storage access with enterprise-grade data services such as snapshots and replication
• Disaster recovery and business continuity architectures using Alletra MP synchronous replication paired with compute node failover managed through HPE GreenLake orchestration

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.