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...

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...

While browsing through all the software from HP I found this great tool: HP Virtualization Performance Viewer. And even better, it is for free! At least untill 200 monitored servers. This is a comparison between the free and licensed version: The tool  is a real-time diagnostic and triage tool that is lightweight and provides quick time-to-value. Administrators can visualize data from a single console in minutes and begin to diagnose...

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...