Tech Talk

Its all about unified approaches for HP Storage as they push forward into the future.  David Scott, senior vice president and general manager of HP Storage, has spent a lot of time during HP Discover talking about HP’s unified approach in storage architectures as opposed to competitor’s fragmented approaches. In the StoreServe and StoreOnce product [...]

Andy McCaskey with SDR News invited me onto SDR News Live to talk about HP Discover, coming up next week, in Las Vegas.  We had a great chat about what to expect with the show.  This will be my third trip out for an HP Discover and I have a lot to soak up about [...]

Can I let you in on a secret?  Although I blog to help others through my own experiences and troubleshooting, one of the other things I do is use my blog as my own personal knowledge base.  Once I’ve hit something, if I blog it, its there for me as much as you… One of [...]

This is part 4 in a multi-part series about 3PAR arrays from an EVA Administrator’s point of view – and specifically here, for the VMware Administrator, too. Running 3PAR StorServ with vSphere 5.1 comes with a short list of best practices from HP, which is great since VMware ESXi does most of the work for [...]

This is part 3 of a multipart series focused on 3PAR storage from an EVA Administrator’s perspective. Check out parts one and two - Understanding the 3PAR difference in array architecture and Learning the 3PAR lingo for the EVA administrator.  HP 3PAR Peer Persistence is the most exciting feature for me in the new 3PAR StoreServ 7000 [...]

This is the second part of a multi-part series about 3PAR from an EVA administrators perspective. See Understanding the 3PAR difference in array architecture for the first part of the series. One of the most daunting thing about moving from EVA to 3PAR is the change in terminology.  While the concepts of many things are the [...]

I have been working on this post for well over a year, but it never made it out of my drafts because I didn’t feel comfortable with 3PAR.  That all changed this year with the purchase and implementation of two 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series arrays.  As an HP EVA customer, 3PAR has always been a compelling alternative, [...]

One of the biggest hurdles for virtualization adoption in the small business area has been the need for expensive, shared storage.  The Virtual Storage Appliance is looking to change that.  By utilizing the relatively cheap, attached storage in host systems and pooling those into a storage array, vendors are looking to extend the goodness of [...]

I’ve posted before about my impressions of CloudSystem Service Provider, but it seems I had some facts wrong about the solution.  I’ve had a lot of exposure to the core CloudSystem solution from briefings and demonstrations from HP, but whenever discussed, it seems I missed a critical fact about the Service Provider offering.  HP is [...]

HP unveiled a third generation of StoreOnce devices targeted at improving backup and restore performance, StoreOnce redundancy and introducing a new interface to handle backups.  The new StoreOnce B6200 was introduced last week at HP Discover.  With the new B6200,  customers will get a 2-node base configuration configured as a couplet (cluster) with seamless failover [...]