Today HP announced their new initiative called Project Moonshot. This initiative takes converged infrastructure and puts it on steroids. Hewlett Packard identified that the amount of compute, power and cooling that is necessary to continue providing resources for Big Data, and mobile platforms is unsustainable at the current rate. It just isn’t feasible with the current technology to continue to throw the same servers into data centers without optimizing. ...
I decided to check out the new HP Performance Viewer and found it to be pretty useful. The appliance comes as an OVF so it’s great for importing into your vSphere environment. Once it’s installed you can go to the management URL and all you have to do is provide the name of the vCenter and login credentials. That’s all for the configuration! At this point I’d give the appliance some time to gather statistics, but if you just can’t wait I’ll give you some of the details from my install. ...
I used to love the fact that with my old Netapp FAS2040 that I’d get a phone call about replacing a failed drive almost before I received the alert about the drive in the first place. Phone home seemed genius to me and as it turns out, Hewlett Packard has this capability for their equipment. Full disclosure: As many of you know, I currently work for an HP Partner so my advice may be a bit biased. I can tell you that I wouldn’t put a product on this site which I didn’t like so please don’t think that I’m just trying to push HP products. You may see more HP related articles from me, only because I encounter them more frequently than others. ...
HP Enterprise class storage has just entered the mid range market. Today HP announced the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 class which includes two devices; the HP 3PAR 7200 and the HP 3PAR 7400. The 7200 starts at $25k for the 2U device and the 7400 (seen below) is less than $40K for a 4U device. I’m very excited about this announcement because now HP has a storage device with the features that everybody wants and it’s now affordable for a smaller sized organization. HP has seemingly targeted one of it’s own devices with this announcement (the HP EVA) since it has been very popular with the mid-range business. They’ve even included some tools to migrate data from the EVA to the new 3PAR. I seriously doubt that the EVA will entirely go away, but the new big brother is going to steal some of their thunder. ...
I recently tried out the HP Insight Control plugin for vCenter and was very pleased about the added functionality that was provided in my vSphere client. http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/integration.html This plugin gives you additional control of your HP servers and storage that are being used by your vSphere environment. Like other storage vendors, the install will configure your VASA plugin, and will also allow you to do things such as create datastores and snapshots on the storage array from the vSphere Client. ...
I have been recently thrown into the world of HP Storage, and have been trying to learn all of the storage techniques that are in the HP product line. I noticed that I couldn’t find anything that really did a compare and contrast of each of the products so I started to put one together. Anything I couldn’t understand, I asked a great guy named Calvin Zito (@hpstorageguy) to give me a hand with. He was more than gracious so follow him on Twitter. ...
Hewlett-Packard has released the details of their new product line the Gen8 (don’t call me G8) servers. The new line as, you would expect, has all of the performance increases that seem necessary when coming out with a new product. The new Sandy Bridge XEON processors are onboard, they’ve increased the number of DIMM slots, increased the total amount of memory allowed per system while also increasing the memory speed supported. HP has also switched over to PCI 3.0 which is providing much faster speeds for PCI devices. ...