I just finished deploying some new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 systems within my customers environment. Off course I wanted to add these nice systems in our SIM environment. However, it does not seems to be supported/enabled by default. When you launch a discovery with HP SIM towards the IP adress of the 3PAR StoreServ you will get following message: * Checking for WBEM protocol support on system… Minor:    This system does not...

For Exchange 2010, virtualization and advanced Storage Area Network (SAN) features provide value to IT organizations looking to increase data center efficiency by pooling resources. Virtualization and Storage Area Networks provide increased agility to dynamically scale mailboxes and enhance business continuity. While scaling up resources is the most prevalent design concern, there can be opposite situations where resources have been...

HP published on its website the latest version of the HP Insight software bundle including a new version of the Matrix Operating Environment 7.2. Nice to know is the availability of the new Insight Control Server Deployment software which will replace the good old RDP Rapid Deployment Pack based on Altiris. From now it is HP owned software based on HP Server Automation. Other new features good to know are SNMP v3 in HP SIM, latest hardware...

HP released recently this great solution brief which provides an HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Exchange), based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) – Storage Program. This brief describes a tested configuration for deploying Exchange in a 60,000 user mailbox resilient environment. The performance results and best practices outlined in this document provide tested...

HP just released a new version for HP 3PAR StoreServ products in conjunction with Windows Server and VMware. Important change / notice is that persona’s for Windows 2008 R2 servers, which is 1 now, must be changed to 2 with the new firmware 3.1.2. Also for VMware, which is currently 6, must be changed to the new option 11. These new persona’s will add additional features to these hosts. The old persona’s 1 and 6 will...