Ever since Meg Whitman announced at HP Discover in Las Vegas that the HP.com website was running on Moonshot, lots of people were surprised and curious of how this is possible… Those tiny little server cartridges? Besides the typical marketing stuff like “80% less space, 89% less energy and 77% less cost”, the following numbers make it even more impressive: the whole HP.com website runs on the energy equivalent to a dozen of...

I was able to attend the HP Press conference at HP Discover in Las Vegas today (thanks Calvin! @HPStorageGuy) and hear on first hand all the new stuff that will be released soon on the HP 3PAR storage platform. I thought that the announcement last December in Frankfurt was already impressive (the 3PAR 7000, remember?), well today is another next big step for 3PAR to become the best and biggest storage platform around in mid-tier and high...

HP just released this great document with some guidelines and best practices for StoreVirtual environments in combination with VMware SRM… Good reference guide in case you want to implement this nice technology! Find the document here.

With the next release of HP CloudSystem, HP is expanding this openness even further by adding support for Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM). HP released this great technology brief on HP Cloudsystem and this integration with KVM and Openstack. You can find the document here. Happy reading!

This solution brief provides an HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 Server and HP Smart Array P420i storage solution for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 (Exchange), based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) – Storage Program. This solution implements the Database Availability Group (DAG) mailbox resiliency features found in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This feature is the base component of the high availability and site...

I just finished deploying some new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 systems within my customers environment. Off course I wanted to add these nice systems in our SIM environment. However, it does not seems to be supported/enabled by default. When you launch a discovery with HP SIM towards the IP adress of the 3PAR StoreServ you will get following message: * Checking for WBEM protocol support on system… Minor:    This system does not...

            When I was growing up it was always a Lamborghini Countach Or that tennis lady with the itchy butt For you techies I guess it’s the ISS servers poster. Download it...

Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization to reduce costs, improve agility, and enhance business continuity. Whether it is a few virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical computer or an entire data center with hundreds of physical servers, and thousands of VMs. Virtualization brings tremendous benefits to data centers through server consolidation, ease of provisioning and deployment, and the standardization of...

This recommended configuration is designed around a building block approach with a multi-copy high availability design using a database availability group (DAG). The number of servers per DAG is a flexible design decision that customers can make (up to sixteen servers per DAG based on an Exchange Server limit). This recommended configuration uses a total of five multi-role servers, with three in the primary location and two in the secondary...

For Exchange 2010, virtualization and advanced Storage Area Network (SAN) features provide value to IT organizations looking to increase data center efficiency by pooling resources. Virtualization and Storage Area Networks provide increased agility to dynamically scale mailboxes and enhance business continuity. While scaling up resources is the most prevalent design concern, there can be opposite situations where resources have been...