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The HPE Alletra 4000 series (specifically the Alletra 4110 and 4120) are technically classified as Storage Servers. Unlike traditional "closed" storage arrays like the Alletra 6000 or 9000, the Alletra 4000s are open platforms derived from the HPE Apollo lineage, designed to run Software-Defined Storage (SDS) stacks such as HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Scality, or Qumulo.

Because these systems are fundamentally high-density servers, their lifecycle management—including firmware updates (BIOS, iLO, controllers), health monitoring, and remote configuration—is integrated into the HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management (COM) service. COM provides a cloud-native console designed specifically for server administrators to manage fleets of ProLiant and Alletra 4000 servers from a single pane of glass.

While the customer is building a storage solution, the Data Ops Manager (DOM) (Option D) is the control plane for HPE’s specialized block and file arrays (managed via DSCC) and is not the tool used for raw storage server hardware management. Similarly, the "File Storage" and "Block Storage" tiles in GreenLake refer to specific Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offerings rather than the underlying hardware management for SDS building blocks. For a partner designing an Ezmeral solution on Alletra 4000, Compute Ops Management is the correct tool to ensure the hardware stays compliant with the latest HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and firmware baselines required for stable SDS operations.

The HPE Alletra MP B10000 (Block) utilizes a disaggregated shared-everything architecture where capacity is distributed across multiple NVMe drives and enclosures. To ensure 100% data availability, the system allows administrators to define the level of resilience required via the High Availability (HA) settings.

Architecturally, there is a direct trade-off between the level of hardware resilience and the achievable space efficiency (usable capacity).

Enclosure Level HA (Option D): This is the most resilient setting. It ensures the system can survive the total failure of an entire drive enclosure (JBOF) without losing data. To achieve this, the system must distribute parity and data stripes across different enclosures. This "vertical" redundancy requires a larger percentage of raw capacity to be reserved for parity, thereby reducing the net space efficiency.

Drive Level HA (Option A): This setting protects against individual drive failures (similar to traditional RAID 6 or RAID-TP) but assumes the enclosure itself remains operational. Because the stripes can be optimized more densely within fewer hardware boundaries, the system requires less "overhead" capacity to maintain the protection state.

By changing the High Availability option to Drive Level, the administrator instructs the Alletra MP software to prioritize usable capacity over enclosure-level fault tolerance. This is a common optimization for customers who have multi-enclosure systems but prefer to maximize their ROI on raw NVMe flash. It is important to note that changing this setting may require a re-striping of existing data and should be done in accordance with the customer’s risk profile and SLA requirements. The sparing algorithms (Options B and C) manage how much space is set aside for automatic rebuilds, but the primary driver of bulk space efficiency in a multi-enclosure MP cluster is the HA policy selection.

HPE Morpheus Enterprise provides extensive native monitoring for provisioned resources, but for deep, full-stack observability into applications, databases, and third-party services via a specialized SaaS-based analytics platform, it integrates with external providers through plugins.

The Datadog Integration Plugin is a primary example of this capability. Datadog is an industry-leading SaaS data analytics platform that monitors performance across every layer of the stack—from infrastructure metrics to application traces and logs. By installing the Datadog plugin in Morpheus, the administrator bridges the gap between the orchestration engine (Morpheus) and the observability platform (Datadog). This plugin adds a contextual "Datadog" tab to instances within the Morpheus UI, pulling real-time performance telemetry directly from the SaaS backend into the Morpheus management pane. This allows the administrator to view workload health and deep-dive analytics without switching consoles.

While HPE OpsRamp (Option C) is part of the broader HPE CloudOps Software suite and provides similar observability features, it is often treated as a separate, complementary software component rather than a specific "SaaS plugin" used within the core Morpheus instance-level analytics in the same context as Datadog's marketplace integration. The Morpheus Agent (Option A) is a local software component used for guest-level automation and basic health checks, not a SaaS analytics platform. By choosing Datadog, the administrator leverages a purpose-built SaaS solution to gain the "monitoring of applications, servers, and databases" required by the prompt through a pre-validated community or enterprise plugin.