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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HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for HP EVA now supports Cluster Shared Volumes
In an HP Storage Works EVA Best Practices document published in February 2010, we were advised not to use the HP MPIO DSM with Cluster Shared Volumes, but as an alternative to use Microsoft Native MPIO only. This was unfortunate because the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM allows for better visibility and control of the [...]
Removing HP Tools before or after P2V
Here’s a handy tool from CtxAdmTools to have around when virtualizing HP servers to a virtualization platform. It cleans up most if not all of the HP tools, agents and programs.
http://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar/HPPSPCleaner/HPPSPCleaner12.html
HP updates ProLiant Support Pack to v8.50
HP has released a new version of its HP ProLiant Support Pack for Windows Server 2008 (both 32-bit and x64).
In general, a new ProLiant Support Pack contains important updates to storage and network drivers or firmware. Its main purpose this time however, is to support the newly announced HP ProLiant G7 series including its [...]
Hyper-V R2 and Clustering Videos Technet 2010 North America
Last week a number of great presentations were given at TechEd 2010 North America in New Orleans .
Here is a selection of sessions on Hyper-V R2 and Clustering that I consider to be my field. Some of them are presented by my Cluster MVP Lead Symon Perriman.
Disaster Recovery by Stretching Hyper-V Clusters Across Sites: [...]
Happy customer with Hyper-V R2 and HP LeftHand storage
My colleague Bert de Reus sent me a stimulating email. He has been implementing Hyper-V R2 at a customer site with HP ProLiant G6 servers and HP LeftHand storage (virtualization bundle).
The customer had an aging HP ProLiant ML350 G3 with seven U320 SCSI disks and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 holding several databases. A typical query [...]
Hyper-V R2 hotfixes for DPM 2010
Install at least these two hotfixes on Hyper-V R2 servers:
KB975354 A Hyper-V rollup package dealing with parallel backups on same cluster shared volumes and VM’s hosted by different servers; Avoiding data truncation as a result of simultaneous backup of VM from host and from within virtual machine; properly restoring a VM with snapshots to another [...]
HP and Microsoft getting closer to the clouds
In my last blog of 2009 I anticipated that the joint forces of VMware, Cisco and EMC, would make the bond between HP and Microsoft stronger.
Apparently I’m not the only one who is observing another front on the horizon. Even though HP and MS have been partners for many years in their Frontline Partnership, [...]
HP offers virtualization smart bundles with Hyper-V
After VMware joined forces with Cisco en EMC (VCE) in vBlock, it is not difficult to see that HP is hugging Microsoft giving Hyper-V and System Center a lot of extra attention. On the other side of the fence we see Microsoft, Citrix and HP (MCH) forming an opposing, let’s call it vPower, alternative. It [...]
Improving network throughput between Hyper-V R2 virtual machines
My colleague Norbert Westland asked me if I could explain the noticeable difference in network throughput between two Windows Server 2008 virtual machines on the same physical server in a Hyper-V R2 cluster compared to an identical file copy between the same VM and a physical host or from the physical host to the VM.
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Best Practices to Implement Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant Servers (Part 2)
On the first day of TechEd Europe 2009, Doug Dewerd presented a session on best practices to implement Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP ProLiant Servers. This is in fact the combination of hardware and software I have preferred ever since Windows and ProLiant were joined, exactly 20 years ago last week. The ProLiant server [...]
Happy customer with Hyper-V R2 and HP LeftHand storage
My colleague Bert de Reus sent me a stimulating email. He has been implementing Hyper-V R2 at a customer site with HP ProLiant G6 servers and HP LeftHand storage (virtualization bundle).
The customer had an aging HP ProLiant ML350 G3 with seven U320 SCSI disks and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 holding several databases. A typical query [...]
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