HP just released this great document with some guidelines and best practices for StoreVirtual environments in combination with VMware SRM… Good reference guide in case you want to implement this nice technology! Find the document here.

Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization to reduce costs, improve agility, and enhance business continuity. Whether it is a few virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical computer or an entire data center with hundreds of physical servers, and thousands of VMs. Virtualization brings tremendous benefits to data centers through server consolidation, ease of provisioning and deployment, and the standardization of...

HP Insight control plugin for vCenter is the go-forward vCenter management integration plug-in for HP Storage including 3PAR. In addition to managing all HP block storage arrays, this vCenter plug-in also manages HP servers and Virtual Connect networking. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server integrates with both VMware vSphere Client and VMware’s new vSphere Web Client. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter enables the VMware...

StoreVirtual and StoreOnce were already known since some time, here at HP Discover in Frankfurt extended the list. HP StoreOnce: deduplication appliances (HP labs) HP StoreVirtual: aka Lefthand aka P4000. Lefthand OS is the new name of SAN/iQ software. And new there is on top of that: HP StoreServ: 3PAR P7000 and P10000 (see other blog post) HP StoreAll: IBRIX + Express Query and Autonomy integration HP StoreEasy: Windows Storage...

HP just released the new version 10.0 of the LeftHand OS, previously known as SAN/iQ. All details can be found here. Download is also available on this page. My CMC Central Management Console is already downloading…   The announcement: HP Storage is pleased to announce the availability of LeftHand Operating System version 10.0 (previously known as SAN/iQ). The new software provides enhancements and new functionality for – HP...