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Reduce application deployment times with HP BladeSystem Matrix ISV Solutions

Joe Sullivan Microsoft Technical Solutions Engineer - APS With the HP BladeSystem Matrix, you can radically change the way applications are deployed in your datacenter. Matrix provides an integrated platform of infrastructure (server, storage, and network...

Published 11-04-2009 10:01 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: BladeSystem, BladeSystem Matrix, blades

Extending BladeSystem Matrix through ISV partnerships

By Karl Paetzel HP Enterprise Solution Alliances This week HP announced new investments to extend the value of BladeSystem Matrix through our ISV partnerships. Matrix is HP’s integrated offering of platform hardware, software, and services that...

Published 11-04-2009 9:55 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade innovation, insight software, BladeSystem Matrix

Three Opinions (But One Counts More)

I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor...

Published 10-21-2009 11:32 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, awards, innovation, virtualization blade, Cisco, Datacenter futures, BL490c, Bytemark, Liquid Computing, Gartner, Latin America

BladeSystem Firmware Management

Here's a new BladeSystem best-practices whitepaper on the topic of firmware: HP BladeSystem ProLiant firmware management best practices It talks about different scenarios for firmware maintenance (like local vs. remote, online vs. offline), and goes...

Published 10-02-2009 4:39 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, management, firmware

VMware Certification of G6 BladeSystem Servers (ProLiant BL460c, BL490c, BL495c)

We get lots of questions regarding VMware and what HP servers are certified on the various VMware Operating Systems. They do have a Hardware Compatability List (HCL) and we just wanted to let you know which of the latest G6 BladeSystem Servers are on...

Published 08-03-2009 8:32 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, vmware, vSphere, G6 Servers

Primer on iSCSI and the permutations on BladeSystem

As iSCSI becomes more popular as an interconnect technology for storage and other devices, we had received a lot of questions as to how, why, what, works with iSCSI and the components of HP BladeSystem. So, Dan Bowers and Ed McGee put together a primer...

Published 07-28-2009 2:10 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, storage, iSCSI

Managing HP servers through firewalls with Insight Software

I came across an interesting white paper that identifies possible ways of managing HP servers with HP Systems Insight Manager and Insight Software deployed in the area of the network that is considered more secure than the standard production network...

Published 07-14-2009 4:32 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, security, Management software, HP SIM

Installing and configuring HP-related components in Essential Business Server on an HP BladeSystem c3000 chassis

To fully use the features in the c3000 hardware, you must be able to add and configure software in EBS. This updated customer-viewable document covers installation of SNMP, Support Pack, Management Packs and how to add HP updates into Microsoft® System...

Published 07-14-2009 12:53 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, Management software, Microsoft EBS

Applications Matter - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 2

How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power...

Published 06-10-2009 10:21 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: BladeSystem, power, energy efficiency, green IT, datacenter, power management, myths, Power Supplies, data center

Icosikaitetra-Core Server Blades

Yesterday, AMD launched "Istanbul" , their six-core Opteron processor. Paul G. promised that HP would add this CPU into our servers in very short order. "Very short" was right; today we've announced the BL465c G6 and BL495c G6...

Published 06-02-2009 9:46 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade servers, new product, AMD, Opteron

Taking a closer look at the "Power On" capabilities for blade chassis

Some of our Blade Specialists give us the workings of the BladeSystem "Power switch" . David gives us these words of wisdom. "I've always referred to the "power switch" on the front of the blade not as a power switch but a...

Published 06-02-2009 8:55 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, energy efficiency, power management

Virtually (and literally) #1

This week we released VMMark results for the new HP BL490c G6 server blade. The scores establish the BL490c as the highest performing 2-socket server blade for virtualization -- eclipsing blades offered by IBM, Dell, and Cisco. By the way, this 2-socket...

Published 05-22-2009 1:41 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade servers, virtualization blade, virtual machines, vmware, Cisco

Chargeback Glitch

Here’s a story about unexpected behavior prompted by some chargeback rules at Pfizer . (By 'chargeback' I mean the budgeting scheme where IT resources are metered, then costs are attributed to the business units that consume them.) Larry Cannell...

Published 05-15-2009 4:25 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, capacity planning, blade infrastructure, blade servers, power management, Management software, data center, chargeback

Least Favourite Question

I'm sitting here thinking about writing my first Blog post and trying to come up with something to say. So I figured I'd start by trying to answer one of my least favourite questions (and before you all start to correct my spelling I'm not...

Published 05-13-2009 9:15 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: BladeSystem, cooling, power, energy efficiency, blade infrastructure

Ever have questions about iSCSI and BladeSystem

A customer asks "I have a BladeSystem BL460c G6 and I want to connect this server with an iSCSI connection. Do I need any additional software like, The ProLiant Essentials Accelerated iSCSI Pack , or the Microsoft iSCSI Target Software, to use this...

Published 05-06-2009 12:26 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, iSCSI, BL460c G6

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