This white paper provides details on the HP E5000 Messaging System’s network configuration and best practices for how a hardware load balancer can be used. HP recommends the use of a hardware load balancer with the E5000. The HP E5000 Messaging System comes equipped with multiple network interfaces which include integrated and mezzanine network interface cards1 (NICs). These NICs have several purposes including client-based Messaging...

Not everyone knows that for the P4000 series of storage (aka Lefthand) there are also rules regarding patch & firmware management. All the latest supprted version (and required minimums!) can be found in HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/Pages/spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=hw_iscsi.html

If you want to start to use VCEM Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, this is the document that you need to start with. Find the document here.

I found this great document that explains how to setup HP SIM to be able to monitor HP EVA storage… Find the document here.

This paper compares the network architecture, configuration, deployment, management capabilities, and performance of two systems: • HP BladeSystem servers with Virtual Connect (VC) • Cisco Unified Computing System® (UCS) Both systems connect physical and virtual servers to LAN and SAN networks and manage those connections up to the server-network edge. This paper does not compare HP CloudSystem Matrix to Cisco UCS. CloudSystem Matrix...