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 been releasing firmware for the Bladesystem as components and firmware were updated, which they still do, but the idea of a release set adds [...]
Since we began upgrading our clusters to ESX4, we have been having strange “failed physical path” messages in our vmkernel logs. I don’t normally post unless I know the solution to a problem, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. Our deployment has been delayed and plauged by the storage issues that I mentioned [...]
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 [...]
HP’s Virtual Connect technology offerings are all about consolidation of network and fiber channel, much in the same way that blade chassis are to the physical server offerings. Virtual Connect allows for fewer physical connections to be shared and flexibly assigned to blades within an HP BladeSystem. I have been using this technology for [...]
Two of the announcements not getting much press from the floor of VMworld this week were announced during Paul Martiz keynote on day 1 by HP. HTC is primarily and HP shop, so it looks like an area of interest for me and one that might be getting neglected elsewhere, so here goes some news [...]
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