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 4 [...]
Last 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 [...]
09 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Clustering| VMware| Virtualization
I 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 [...]
05 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Clustering| HTC| My Projects
The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.
21 Nov, 2008
Posted by: Philip In: Blades| Conferences| My Projects| Virtualization
I just returned from the HP Customer Focused Testing VMware Technical Forum in Colorado Springs, CO. HP’s Colorado Springs facility is primarily the StorageWorks storage products location – specializing in their XP, EVA and MSA storage arrays. I was very impressed with the amount of technical knowledge by the folks there, the facilities and not [...]
As an update to my earlier post, we did need to replace our power supplies in the two enclosures that we had purchased. We are in the process of replacing them over the next two days. Our replacement units arrived in our warehouse yesterday. I will upate with the process as we complete it.
I found this alert from Aaron Delp’s blog about certain c7000 Bladesystems from HP which need power supplies replaced. There is an “extremely rare” potential that if one of the power supplies fails, it could lead to a complete shutdown on the entire enclosure. I’m out of the office today, but I believe our bladesystems will [...]
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