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HP is moving away from the release sets that it introduced in 2010 to a unified Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) model for updating firmware and software on the HP BladeSystem along with all Proliant servers. I had previously reported about the software release sets back in June of 2010. In the latest realignment, HP [...]
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- Tags: Blades, Bladesystem, Hewlett Packard, HP, Proliant, servers
All IT solutions will experience problems at some point in their life. Supporting IT solutions is difficult, time-consuming and costly, but also a fact of life – a fact as a systems administrator I am thankful for. It means, I have a job. Problem solving skills are absolutely necessary, but all administrators need the expert [...]
Overview and experiences with HP BladeSystem.
13, Aug 2011For anyone who found this post looking for my week two post for the Blogger Reality Show, please see the Simplifying IT support and deployments with converged systems post instead. This post is just more or less general info about HP BladeSystem and my experiences. I worked with HP to deploy two HP BladeSystem C7000 chassis in my [...]
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- Tags: Bladesystem, HP
Simplify. Eliminate duplication of effort. Reduce costs. Play to your core competencies. Standardize. All of these are themes I have heard in my own company as we have looked at ways to improve our IT operations. Like many companies, we try to form a plan of where our IT operations should move, motivated by making [...]
HP adds firmware release sets for Bladesystem
22, Jun 2010HP has updated their framework for BladeSystem firmware and driver releases through a consolidated Service Pack for Proliant. See this post for more information. HP added the idea of release sets for Bladesystem firmware starting in January. On a conference call yesterday, we were alerted to the new release set certification process. Previously, HP had [...]
We recently made the purchase to upgrade our two blade enclosures to HP’s Flex-10 Ethernet technology and last week, with the help of a partner, we performed the install and upgrade of the Virtual Connect domain. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 allows an administrator to take a physical 10G connection and partition it into up to [...]
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- Tags: Blades, Bladesystem, HP
Mid-plane is replaced on our blade enclosure
11, Mar 2009Last night, we undertook replacing our mid-plane in the blade enclosure that had problems last month. It was the first recommendation from HP support after several hours of working with various teams, but both our internal team and our HP field service guys didn’t feel it was the cause. Turns out, we may have been [...]
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- Tags: Blades, failure, hardware, replacement
HP Blades, Virtual Connect & ESX considerations
9, Mar 2009I may have already mentioned that one of our projects for the year is to transition our corporate ESX cluster from 2U hardware onto blades. The process of transitioning does not come without some concern and some caveots moving to the blade architecture. We feel that blades are a good fit in our case for [...]
- In: Blades|Clustering|Virtualization|VMware
- Tags: Blades, Clustering, ESX, HP, VMware
VMware View implemented
5, Mar 2009My co-worker, Jason, was tasked with our VMware View implementation and I’m glad to report that its been largely successful and more importantly easy to deploy. I thought that now was a good time to reflect and share with you how we came to the decision to deploy virtual desktops, where we plan to use [...]
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- Tags: Pano, Pano Logic, virtual desktops, VMware, VMware View
Month of silence, because of a blade enclosure
5, Mar 2009The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.