HPE strengthens its 3PAR portfolio with 15 (!!) major innovations
HPE announced today what they call itself their biggest storage announcement since the 3PAR 7000 platform release 4 years ago. They position all the updates and innovations under 4 pillars which highlights the new requirements for the data-center of the future. App acceleration Express Writes is an optimization of the 3PAR OS protocol by lowering CPU interrupts per write IO. This delivers lower write latency for SSD and HDD....
Storage updates from HPE Discover London 2016
HPE Discover is started in London with a lot of announcements. In this article I will wrap up all storage related news. In later articles I will dive deeper in each topic. Apps: faster, faster, faster No new storage products are actually announced, but more optimizations on existing platforms. One cool feature is the tech preview of HPE 3PAR 3D Cache technology aka Storage Class Memory. This is planned to be available starting in...
Storage conclusions after HPE Discover
OK found my way back home after a fantastic week in Las Vegas at the annual HPE Discover event… Since I was asked to teach twice the Master ASE Storage class to get +50 people certified with the highest level of storage certification (and most actually did pass the exam, congratulations!), I did not really have a lot of time during the event for blogging on all the news. That’s why I write this article just now… There are always the...
Getting started with HPE VM Explorer
Some time ago HPE announced that they would acquire Trilead, a small Swiss based company with 1 actual product being VM Explorer being a backup product for VMware and Hyper-V environments. In this article I will do a walk-through of the installation and initial configuration and use of the product. Installation The software bits can be downloaded from their website https://www.trilead.com/download/. For my article I used Build...
HowTo: update StoreOnce firmware
With the release of Veeam 9.0 the integration with the HPE StoreOnce platform is extended with the Veeam 9.0 Catalyst support. However, if you want to use this new functionality you will need to upgrade the StoreOnce OS firmware to the latest version. Specifically for Catalyst support this is at least 3.13.1 or above. Below I will describe the process of how you can do this. Be aware that this procedure is the same for the physical...
New whitepaper on Microsoft Exchange 2010 Data Protection with HP StoreOnce Backup, HP StoreEver and HP Data Protector
HP released this new Reference Architectire white paper for an optimal Data Protection on a Microsoft Exchange environment. The Reference Architecture outlined in this technical white paper provides guidance for the budgeting, planning, and deployment of a Microsoft Exchange and HP data protection solution that supports up to 60,000 mailbox users. Each mailbox offers a 2 GB mailbox capacity and supports a workload profile up to 100...
