Last June at HP Discover in Las Vegas I made some time to walk around at the partner booths and see their solutions and integrations with HP hardware and software. One of them caught my attention and remind me of the time when I supported a large European based customer maintaining their HP based server […]
HP released today the latest version of its Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) bundle. HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) is a comprehensive systems software and firmware update solution, which is delivered as a single ISO image. This solution uses HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM) as the deployment tool and is tested on all […]
Here is my wrap-up of the HP Discover 2014 event in Las Vegas. I was invited again this year by HP ExpertOne to be a trainer for the new Building Server Solutions class, to prepare my students (from almost everywhere in the world) to pass the HP0-S40 exam… Got great feedback, and a lot of […]
I had the opportunity to attend the European HP Discover event of 2013, this time in Barcelona. This is an overview of the most important announcements made over there. In future blog posts I will dive deeper in each aspect. STORAGE After having announced the 3PAR 7×00 series in Frankfurt, the full-flash 7450 SSD array […]
HP released today the newest version of HP Insight Management software containing HP SIM, Insight Control, Virtual COnnect Enterprise Manager and Matrix Operating Environment. This means that HP SIM is not dead yet, allthough some people may think this with the release of Oneview. Find here the updates in the various components: Support for the […]
While I was installing the latest SPP Service Pack for Proliant 2013.09 on my servers, I noticed the installation of a component that I never saw before in the previous SPP releases : HP Smart Storage Administrator. After having installed and started the installation, it seemed that this SSA is the replacement for the good […]