A new Firmware Best Practices Planning Guide is now available on the HP website.  It can be downloaded from http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02967678/c02967678.pdf. This new planning guide is intended to provide an outline for creating a firmware update plan to follow before updating your server and enclosure environments.  This contains new and updated information about firmware planning including: • Updated...

Virtualized workloads and scalability are top priorities for IT consolidation, agility, and business alignment. Together with Emulex and VMware, HP can create a robust, highly available environment with c-Class BladeSystem, Virtual Connect, & HP Storage EVA. Reference the HP/Emulex/VMware technical white paper as a guide on component selection, deployment, and interoperability (audience: technical data center administrators;...

Q.)  A partner student is inquiring if there is any information available which provides more information on the duty cycle/limits for MDL SAS drives? A.)  The documents, which URL addresses are provided below, provide some more information about the differences in drive types. Hope this...

The HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family has been designed for mid-range and enterprise customers with critical requirements to improve storage utilization and scalability. EVA arrays can fulfill application-specific demands for transactional I/O performance, while supporting easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration.  The combination of an EVA array, HP Command View EVA software and...