- HPE Synergy Image Streamer can quickly provision an operating environment across a large number infrastructure blocks. It can deploy and update many systems quickly, possibly as fast of you can reboot servers, to quickly expand or change environments across Linux, VMware ESX, or Microsoft Windows.
- HPE Synergy Image Streamer enables true stateless operation by integrating your server profiles with your golden images (OE and I/O driver) and your personalities (OS and application). Stateless operation can be used to plan environments early for fast implementation onto available hardware later.
- Workload switching can increase your system utilization by changing workloads on the same Synergy system -- as fast as servers can be rebooted. (As a simple example, systems running VDI workloads during the day can run compute-intensive workloads at night, and switch back to VDI again the next day.)
- The Unified API enables programmatic control of HPE Image Streamer by developers and users for integration, automation and customization. You can script these operations through modern RESTful interfaces using tools like Python, Powershell, Ruby or Java -- and optimize control using the Unified API.
Can HPE Synergy manage physical servers like virtual machines? HPE Synergy Image Streamer implements rapid image/application changes to multiple compute nodes in an automated manner. It integrates software-defined intelligence from HPE Composer to deploy and update physical compute nodes with operating environment images for bare-metal booting directly into a running OS and for VM hosting with quick image changeovers.
Rapid delivery of applications and services results from this "infrastructure-as-code" capability. Enhanced profiles provide true stateless images, which integrate the server hardware configuration with operating environment images.
Enhanced profiles are stored in redundant image repositories and are automatically integrated for simplicity of use. The Unified API allows access for partners, developers, and users to unlock value creation with HPE Image Streamer.
Integration, automation, customization of operations and applications is enabled with the wider ecosystem.