HPE picked May 4th aka Star Wars day (hoping that the force be with them?) for their big storage announcement for 2021. The invitation promised a radically new vision for data and infrastructure that enables customers to accelerate data-driven transformation from edge to cloud. In the world of enterprise data storage, there hasn’t been a […]
Some time ago I replaced my HPE 3PAR 7400 array in my homelab with a new HPE Nimble storage array HF20. HPE 3PAR had an interesting feature called Direct Attach aka FlatSAN, that allows to connect your 3PAR array directly to the Virtual Connect modules inside a C7000 BladeSystem and Synergy bladed solution, without the […]
Is it converged? Is it hyperconverged? HPE calls it actually next-gen converged. It features the easy of use and deployment of hyperconverged solutions and has the flexibility of scaling storage and compute independently just like converged solutions. Best of both worlds. That’s also the name: HPE Nimble dHCI, being disaggregated HCI. Simplicity from HCI […]
What would happen if the HPE storage team puts together both of best worlds of their Nimble and 3PAR storage portfolio? Well, this is what actually was announced at HPE Discover in Las Vegas in June 2019. Welcome HPE PRIMERA HPE Primera is the new next-gen storage platform that combines the simplicity from HPE Nimble […]
HPE announced the (long awaited) availability of Synchronous Replication for its Nimble storage portfolio at HPE Discover in Madrid.A Nimble system is known for it’s 99,9999 availability per system. However, this is not enough for disasters or data center outage. We don’t even mention human error… With Sync Replication HPE eliminates the fault domain of […]
HPE announced today its 5th generation of the Nimble storage portfolio. Besides a new generation of hardware, some other new features were shown as well. Let’s take a look at what was announced: New hardware The 3 current platforms ( AF All Flash – CS Adaptive Flash and SF Secondary Flash) gets streamlined in […]
With the acquisition of Nimble some weeks ago, HPE adds an important stack of storage arrays into their storage portfolio. What does this mean for the existing solutions MSA, StoreVirtual and 3PAR? We’ll have to wait for that a little longer as the HPE storage management team sets the futures of the roadmap. While waiting, […]
Probably you all heard already about the recent acquisitions of Simplivity and Nimble by HPE. Many articles are already written about this topic (here, here and here) so I am not gonna repeat the old news. However, there is 1 big question that remains (and where HPE is not (yet) showing its long-term vision yet) […]
Find here all articles I have written in the HowTo series, where I describe in detail how to setup or configure specific products and tools… Enjoy, hope it is usefull! HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Installation step 1 – install Ubuntu OS (video) Installation step 2 – Ubuntu configuration (video) Installation step 3 […]
How it started No bitcoins! Don’t know how many times I have to explain it is bitcon and not bitcoin… So don’t expect any information here on bitcoins… When I started my company in 2006 I needed a catchy name linking my name (Bart) with my mission IT CONsultancy. BITCON.be was born. If I had […]