Case Study: Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources achieves simplified, automated, single‑vendor data center management with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE powers the Ministry of Petroleum’s data center network

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, after separating from Saudi Aramco, needed a single‑vendor partner to design, build and manage a complete data center—including servers, storage and networking—so it could standardize infrastructure and minimize in‑house technical overhead. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) was chosen, supplying HPE FlexFabric switches, Blade systems, 3PAR storage, HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), OneView, IRF and HPE Technology Consulting Services to deliver an integrated, end‑to‑end solution.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise implemented a standardized data center architecture with IMC as a single‑pane‑of‑glass for network management, OneView for servers/storage, IRF for resiliency and MDC to partition a physical switch into four virtual contexts. The deployment reduced operational complexity (managed from just two consoles), improved redundancy and scalability, and delivered measurable cost and resource efficiencies—notably lower CAPEX/OPEX, better hardware utilization and uninterrupted operations after the split—helping the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources future‑proof its network.

Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources

Wahid S. Hammami

CIO