HP has published a technical whitepaper focusing on the performance characterization of the disk sub-system for HP StorageWorks P4500 21.6TB SAS Multi-site SAN Solution (HP P4500 SAN), addressing questions a customer may have about deploying Microsoft’s Hyper-V R2 virtual machines (VMs) on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Virtualization Blades (ProLiant BL490c G6) with HP P4500 iSCSI [...]
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Microsoft changes Hyper-V R2 cluster limits
Until now Microsoft supported Hyper-V R2 clusters with a maximum of 64 VM’s per cluster node or 960 VM’s per 16 node cluster (taking into account a cluster reserve of 1).
With the upcoming SP1, these limits have now been increased to 1000 VM’s per cluster with any number of nodes, but with no more than [...]
The server container is the new form factor
The new form factor is no longer the blade enclosure or the rack, but rather a complete container stuffed with servers, storage and network infrastructure. In some containers you’ll recognize traditional Dell servers and HP blade servers in others.
The amount of processing power and vast amounts of memory is absolutely amazing. In fact it [...]
Moving a Hyper-V virtual machine to Azure
Although not fully embracing the capability and scalability of the cloud, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect from Microsoft, talked about the ability to move a virtual machine to the cloud. I heard about it on Twitter and went on to look for the source. Apparently it was talked about during the PDC which is held [...]
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