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!

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...

HP published on its website the latest version of the HP Insight software bundle including a new version of the Matrix Operating Environment 7.2. Nice to know is the availability of the new Insight Control Server Deployment software which will replace the good old RDP Rapid Deployment Pack based on Altiris. From now it is HP owned software based on HP Server Automation. Other new features good to know are SNMP v3 in HP SIM, latest hardware...

In support of SPP 2013.02.0, the following HP ProLiant firmware and software user documentation and best practice guides were updated and published in February: • HP SUM 5.3.5 User Guide: http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03673114/c03673114.pdf • HP SUM 5.3.5 Release Notes: http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03674279/c03674279.pdf • HP ProLiant and Integrity Firmware...

The latest time (for sure after HP Discover) quite some documents were released around HP CloudSystem. For my personal reference, I created this little table… And off course I want to share this with you all… Some great reference documents in there… Happy reading! CloudSystem Solutions Brief 5  Myths of Cloud Computing Start  small, grow tall: why cloud now HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture CloudSystem...

HP Insight control plugin for vCenter is the go-forward vCenter management integration plug-in for HP Storage including 3PAR. In addition to managing all HP block storage arrays, this vCenter plug-in also manages HP servers and Virtual Connect networking. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server integrates with both VMware vSphere Client and VMware’s new vSphere Web Client. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter enables the VMware...