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Archive for June, 2011
HP P6000 EVA and Microsoft Hyper-V
Jun 21st
In a recent technical brief HP zooms in on the new HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array combined with
Hyper-V. The paper discusses a number of topics related to HP’s new storage array:
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Thin Provisioning
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LUN Migration
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FC, iSCSI and FCoE
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Performance
HP Discover 2011: last chance to win an HP Envy Notebook
Jun 21st
During my “social media” coverage of HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, HP offered a few brand-new HP Microservers and HP Envy notebooks. Well, I was one of the lucky bloggers! My contributions have awarded me the HP Envy notebook and now it is my turn to re-award this prize to one of our readers!!
$1050 worth! Click on this picture for awesome specs!
Quite a number of you have started to follow me and retweeted my #hpdiscover messages, but I really need a lot more response before I can select a winner. Therefore, I have decided to extend the promotion until July 1st 00:00 CET.
What can you do to win this fantastic notebook?
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Tweet the following message including the hashtags at least three times:
RT @hvredevoort Win an HP Envy notebook!! Visit http://www.hyper-v.nu & find out why Hyper-V is such a good fit with HP #HPDiscover #hyperv -
Visit the http://www.hyper-v.nu blog and leave a message on this blog explaining why you think HP (servers/storage/network) and Microsoft Hyper-V are such a good fit
On the 1st of July I will select one lucky follower who has retweeted the above exact message at least three times AND has given the best reply to this blog promoting the combination of HP and Hyper-V
Excluded are my family, my co-bloggers at @hypervnu including myself of course.
I can surely recommend the DiscoveringHP metablog created by one of the HP Discover 2011 bloggers: @freitasm (Mauricio Freitas). DiscoveringHP is a great collection of all the bloggers’ contributions during HP Discover 2011.
The 10 selected contributors are:
My son Jelle Vredevoort has drawn Pete Zerger as the winner of the HP Envy notebook. It will be shipped to you from HP in the United States. Congratulations and thanks everyone for your great contributions.
Sanbolic releases Melio version 3.5
Jun 20th
Today Sanbolic announced the availability of its latest version of its distributed clustered file system Melio version 3.5, which is currently the best available alternative for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes. I have helped Sanbolic test and improve some of its earlier versions and was very impressed.
Co-founder and CEO of Sanbolic, Momchil Michailov just informed me that both DPM 2010 and Symantec BackupExec are supported, that the product will ship before the end of the week. Sanbolic has much more to offer that simply to replace CSV. If you haven’t looked at this product and are thinking of building large Hyper-V clusters, VDI or SQL deployments where enterprise ready storage is expected without the compromises, I strongly advise you to start evaluating Sanbolic’s file system Melio version 3.5
If you need any assistance with testing this product or writing a design, don’t hesitate to contact me and make me part of your project.
PS
I have no shares in Sanbolic (although maybe I should) 
Live Migration of Hyper-V VM’s with 3PAR across datacenters
Jun 9th
In November 2009 I met Matthias Popp from HP Labs at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin. During that event he showed me the first example of a live migration of Hyper-V Virtual Machines between two datacenters. The setup demonstrated a multi-site cluster, two HP EVA storage arrays with Continuous Access and HP Cluster Extensions (CLX) which takes care of the storage failover if one of the datacenter fails or when the storage has to be taken down for maintenance at one location.
This week at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, I talked to Matthias again. HP announced that similar functionality is now available for HP 3PAR storage and was really the first integration created for the newly acquired Cloud Storage platform.
In this video Matthias shows how a stock trading system runs in several VMs in one datacenter and how they are live migrated to the other datacenter without losing its availability or its performance. The VM’s run on top op Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts and are migrated via the built-in Cluster Administrator.
| Want to win that HP Server or HP Laptop? Then just click this link: http://www.linkcounter.com/go.php?linkid=326371 |
Bloggers in the new HP POD
Jun 9th
During the HP Discover event five bloggers toured the Expo and tried out the new HP EcoPOD
It’s a complete datacenter in a box! HP calls it the world’s most efficient data center.
Unlike traditional brick and mortar data centers, the HP POD 240a packs ten times the IT capacity into a compact, modular, ultra efficient package.
- Lightning fast deployment – up to 88% faster
- A quarter of the cost – up to 75% savings
- Near perfect energy efficiency – up to 95% less energy
| Want to win that HP Server or HP Laptop? Then just click this link: http://www.linkcounter.com/go.php?linkid=326371 |
HP EVA P6000 details live from HP Discover 2011
Jun 8th
This morning I attended a session about HP StorageWorks EVA feature enhancements. I will recap some of the details discussed in that session. After a short introduction by Tom Joyce, VP of StorageWorks Marketing, Joseph Algieri, Master Solution Architect at HP continued the presentation. Also Sheridan Kooyers, Master Firmware Architect for EVA at HP was available for answering questions. Sheridan is responsible for Continuous Access and is now working on VAAI development integration.
EVA has been HP’s enterprise storage flagship it was introduced in 2001, celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Their first models were the EVA3000 and EVA5000. Meanwhile 100.000 EVA’s have been sold to a large and very loyal customer base. HP have been talking to lot of customers and have organized focus groups. HP also learnt a great deal from the engineers of the acquired storage companies LeftHand, IBRIX and 3PAR. The storage engineering team has grown considerably. Large investments have been made in the product to again focus to deliver quality.
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Virtual Connect, NIC’s, VLANs, Teaming… Tips and Tricks
Jun 8th
Configuring networking in Hyper-V is not that smooth as we would like it. You have al the possibilities you need but you need to know where you can configure what option and how you need to configure it. In this blog I will describe some tips and tricks and will show you how you can configure the several network components. This blog is based on a HP Hyper-V server (blade server) which is member of a Hyper-V cluster. The NIC’s (8 pieces) are presented through HP Virtual Connect. The total bandwith I received was 20 GB and I need to share that between the 8 NIC’s.
HP Converged Storage
Jun 8th
Here is a video about HP Converged Storage. David Scott is talking.
Also take a look at blog post by @HPStorageGuy on this topic: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Converged-Infrastructure/Converged-Storage-It-s-about-time/ba-p/93565
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Introducing the HP EVA P6000
Jun 7th
During the event I have been tweeting quite a few details about the newly introduced HP EVA P6000 so if you search for @hvredevoort and #HPDiscover you’ll get some idea.
Walking the booth I met Darryl Pedone from HP. I recorded this video which may answer a couple of questions you might have if you are thinking of buying enterprise storage or replacing your current HP EVA.
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HP Discover 2011 first day impressions
Jun 7th
HP Discover 2011 is this major customer and partner event which is held in both United States (Las Vegas) and Europe (Vienna) next November.
I am part of a group of about 20 bloggers and micro bloggers who have kind of press status. HP wants to promote the use of social media for marketing purposes and lets face it, blogs, Facebook, Twitter are a sign of this time in history. We have a fully free format which means you are free in what, how or when you want to convey your messages. I have been blogging and tweeting for about two years so that is quite familiar, but acting as a sort of press guy is really new to me.
There are quite a number of famous bloggers in the group. The ones I follow or recognize are Chris Evans (@chrismevans) from www.thestoragearchitect.com and www.thevirtualarchitect.com, Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) from www.geekzone.co.nz, Stu Miniman (@stu) from www.blogstu.worpress.com, John Obeto (@JohnObeto) from www.absolutelywindows.com), Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert) from www.vsphere-land.com, Chris White (@fezmid) from www.neowin.net, Hector Russo (@GeeksRoom) from www.geeksroom.com, Jeffrey Powers (@geekazine) from www.geekazine.com and several others. So it was a real honor to be amidst this group of geeks.
Monday started with a press conference and several tables were reserved for the bloggers. Because we might have problems using the Internet the organizers had thought of renting a 4G Mobile Access WMAX device from Clear which really made Internet Access fly!
All the keynote speakers and HP executives were present and one by one they covered the most important topics of the event.
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