This technology brief provides an overview of the basic factors driving RAID performance today, including RAID levels themselves as well as controller and drive technologies. Find it here!

Find here an easy overview of all existing EVA controllers and how they will be discovered by HP StorageWorks Command View EVA…

If you have dealt with HP Smart Arrays, you are familiar with the term ?stripe size?. It?s one of the parameters you set when configuring a new logical drive. During the next year, you will find the term ?stripe size? replaced with ?strip size? in Smart Array-related configuration utilities and documentation. Is something really changing here? Not really, only the terminology is changing. But before explaining the reason for the change,...

You can manage HP iLO devices as a group rather than individually to save time and effort. For example, you can update passwords for an entire group of iLO devices using one of our OS-specific, automated setup enablers (Table 2-1). These enablers include the Lights-Out Configuration Utility (CPQLOCFG.EXE), the Online Configuration Utility (HPONCFG.EXE), and a Linux Perl interpreter (locfg.pl) that communicates with iLO. These utilities...

UEFI (Unified Enhanced Firmware Interface) is a specification that defines a new interface and architecture for the system firmware that initializes server hardware subsystems before starting the OS boot process. It is now touted as a long-term successor to the BIOS system, which has been part of the x86 system architecture since its inception. Keep reading to understand more about its strengths and challenges. Origins of UEFI   UEFI...