Word is spreading across industries about how quickly the HP PODs (20c, 40c and 240a) can expand data center resources while maximizing efficiency. The City and County of El Paso, Texas chose the HP POD 40c as its primary data center to service IT operations of several departments, saving taxpayers nearly $6 million by eliminating service duplication and consolidating IT departments. When Skoda Power in the Czech Republic became a...

Found this nice page on the HP site of how to setup and configure VMware ESX(i) for monitoring with SIM, Insight Control and Remote Support… Read this one or follow my training…

I got some questions regarding adding additional NICs in the P4000 storage nodes… Find here the doc that explains everything…

HP just released a new version 3.51 (supercedes 3.30) of firmware for all Virtual Connect modules. Find here the Release Notes. Among many changes ,the new version resolves the issue described in the following Advisory: A Virtual Connect (VC) Version 3.xx to 3.30 Firmware Update May Cause Loss of a VC Domain Configuration After a Profile Move From an Empty Bay for All Servers, and in Additional Circumstances, for Select HP Integrity...

During some research for a customer I found this great document with information you should think about when making a site planning. Everything is in there regarding electricity, cooling, cabling, stability and other stuff in datacenters… Nice! Here’s the link: URL

This white paper provides details on the HP E5000 Messaging System’s network configuration and best practices for how a hardware load balancer can be used. HP recommends the use of a hardware load balancer with the E5000. The HP E5000 Messaging System comes equipped with multiple network interfaces which include integrated and mezzanine network interface cards1 (NICs). These NICs have several purposes including client-based Messaging...

Not everyone knows that for the P4000 series of storage (aka Lefthand) there are also rules regarding patch & firmware management. All the latest supprted version (and required minimums!) can be found in HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/Pages/spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=hw_iscsi.html