HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions with VMware vSphere Best Practices This white paper provides detailed information on how to integrate VMware vSphere 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions. VMware vSphere is an industry leading virtualization platform and software cloud infrastructure enabling critical business applications to run with assurance and agility by virtualizing server resources. Complementing this technology, the HP P4000...

HP released a new white paper with a great overview of all their power and cooling technologies that they support and use in their products… It is great stuff to read and good to make a comparison with the competition… http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02018535/c02018535.pdf Introduction   In this technology brief, we describe a broad range of HP products and technologies that raise energy efficiency,...

The HP 3PAR P10000 V800 Storage System set a worldwide OLTP (online transaction processing) performance record of over 450,000 IOP/s (input/output per second) for tier 1 virtualization and cloud data center environments – eclipsing traditional disk systems and even the fastest solid state disk (SSD) storage systems by more than 11 percent. This performance enables the massive consolidation of virtual workloads and demonstrates that large...

The initial Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) is now available SPP Download page www.hp.com/go/spp/download. Soon, it will be available at the Download link on www.hp.com/go/spp as changes are working their way through hp.com web production throughout the day. SPP 2011.09.0 is based on the contents of PSP/LSP 8.70, FW DVD 9.30, and HP SUM 4.2.1 plus key component updates including the ML/DL/SL and BladeSystem Intel and AMD G6/G7 server-based...

Distributed Trunking is a link aggregation technique, where two or more links across two switches are aggregated together to form a trunk. The IEEE standard—802.3ad—limits the links that can be aggregated within a single switch/device. This feature uses a new proprietary protocol DTIP to overcome this limitation and support link aggregation for the links spanning across the switches. DT provides node-level L2 resiliency in an L2...