New on-demand HP LeftHand demos are now available. This series spans a variety of topics, including how to use the HP LeftHand P4000 Centralized Management Console, how to manage the environment, and how to take advantage of key SAN/iQ features. View the entire demo: HP P4000 Demonstration: Complete Demo Or watch individual topics: Introduction and Agenda Centralized Management Console Demo Creating a Cluster and Provisioning a...

The HP Insight Control for Dummies e-book is now available. The ‘Dummies’ books go like hotcakes, so make sure you get yours today. Find it here. Also the Converged Infrastructure for Dummies book is released. Find this one here.

HP’s new Service Pack for ProLiant and Smart Update Manager 5.0 offer significant advantages for customers. The update package provides a single download for firmware and software, supports online updates, offers one year of support, and covers a large portfolio of products. Software update packages from competitors do not offer the same functionality as HP’s solution. What’s new in HP SUM 5.0.0 - New Graphical User Interface -...

This paper tells you how to integrate HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) processors with Microsoft® Windows® Active Directory (AD) software to streamline configuration and avoid possible security issues. It describes how to validate the directory after you finish the integration. The rest of this paper refers to iLO 3 simply as iLO. Integrating iLO with AD lets you have the same level of security as when you log into a Windows...

This article describes the features and applications of HP enterprise class solid-state drives (SSDs) and IO accelerators. A subsequent article will detail the differences in these solid-state storage devices based on performance, latency, lifetime writes, and expected life at 100% writes. HP solid-state storage devices are based on NAND flash memory, which is the predominant solid-state storage technology. Before describing the features...