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!

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...

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...