I am proud to announce that I will represent Bitcon at HP Discover from 5 to 8 June in Las Vegas… On top of that I will be the speaker of the session TB2611 – Tips and tricks for VMware vSphere 5, Virtual Connect and P4000. If U are around : be there!‪‬‪‬‪

Effective May 14th, 2012, HP 3PAR P10000 V800 Storage and HP 3PAR P10000 V400 Storage systems now support the following solid state drive (SSD) configurations: All SSDs—no Fibre Channel or SATA drives are required Up to 128 SSDs per node pair (e.g. the HP 3PAR P10000 V800 can support up to 512 SSDs when configured with 4 controller node pairs) So what, you ask? Support for 128 SSDs per controller pair allows more active data to be...

Beginning with ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP is introducing HP SmartMemory technology for DDR3 memory. HP SmartMemory DIMMs have passed our qualification and testing processes. Gen8 servers configured with HP SmartMemory DIMMs deliver extended performance and manageability that is not supported using third party DIMMs. This paper provides a detailed look at the core technologies that enable DDR3 memory and its benefits as well as the...

I was looking since a long time for a professional solution for the ESXi servers discovered in HP SIM, where the Major alert was generated by the 6 (out of 8) vmnics with a DOWN status. This is the case with HP G6 or G7 blades with Virtual Connect Flex10 or FlexFabric where not all 8 available NICs are connected to different networks. For instance in my case I have only vmnic 1 and vmnic2 connected to the full 10Gb connection. So I have 6...

vMSC is a new VMware-certified configuration for stretched storage cluster configurations. A vMSC configuration is designed to maintain data availability beyond a single physical or logical site. A storage device with vMSC configuration is supported by VMware after successful vMSC certification. All supported storage devices are listed on the “VMware storage compatibility guide.” It is great to see that the HP Lefthand series...