Industry analyst firm Gartner, has rated HP as the clear industry leader in Blade Servers. Just announced: the first Blade Server Magic Quadrant report from Gartner, released October 6, 2009, places HP in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers. Gartner is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. HP believes that with this report, Gartner has reinforced the pivotal market role of...

An established best practice is to balance disk enclosures across back end loops in an HP StorageWorks 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array (HP EVA6400/8400) product to ensure optimum performance and availability.  To ensure optimum performance and availability, the HP EVA6400 requires that disk enclosures be balanced across the two available back end loops. For example, with six disk enclosures available, there should be three disk...