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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HP LeftHand’
HP promises tighter integration of HP LeftHand and Volume Shadow Copy (VSS)
HPStorageGuy tweeted a very interesting reference to an article by Mike Moroze from HP LeftHand about tighter integration with VSS.
A new option in HP LeftHand P4000 iSCSI storage systems, which we use a lot at Nobel in Hyper-V R2 clusters, now fully embraces the Volume Shadowcopy Services framework.
Currently the preferred method for backup [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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