Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtual servers

Virtual Connect now helps converge infrastructure (and lower costs) even more!

kendallmblog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:41:00 GMT

On Monday, April 20 th , we announced a new Virtual Connect family member and expanded capabilities for all Virtual Connect products. We’ve see a great deal of momentum building behind virtualization and infrastructure convergence - and these enhancements...(read more)

Did we miss something?

Gary Thome — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:35:00 GMT

Every time a competitor introduces a new major product we can't help but notice they suddenly get very interested in what HP is blogging during the weeks prior to their announcement. Then when they announce, the story is always a big self-congratulatory "we've figured out what the problem is with existing server/blade architectures". The implication being that blades volume adoption is somehow being constrained by the very thing they have. ...(read more)

Aaron Delp Busts Blade Power Myths

newtonja — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:06:00 GMT

Aaron Delp has started a series on blades titled "Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive" where he shares a ton of personal research and experience with blades. Check out his first two articles where he busts the blade power myths....(read more)

How would you build a cloud starter kit?

newtonja — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:13:00 GMT

Sometimes our blade ambassadors pass questions and ideas around our virtual watercooler. Today's most interesting question was: "If you were asked to give a basic spec with a BladeSystem for a large cloud-type, general-purpose computing platform using VMware (up to 100 chassis) for a large corporation, how would you build it and why?"...(read more)

Are you in a Virtual Server Tsunami?

newtonja — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:41:00 GMT

Every where I turn, I keep hearing about virtual sprawl. Is the sky falling or not? Here's a sample of a few thoughts from different folks on the subject. ...(read more)

10Gb Ethernet: Divide and Conquer with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Gary Thome — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT

Moore's law has usually been used to predict general trends in semiconductors. While not exactly a perfect analogy, we have seen trends in interconnect bandwidth increase. Ethernet has seen bandwidth increase ten-fold every few years, with the latest transition to 10Gb. Usually these transitions take a while because the costs to transition are high, and the transition to 10Gb has followed that trajectory - until now. ...(read more)

Rethinking networks for virtual servers

newtonja — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:23:00 GMT

The earth is flat. Men can't fly. Chewing gum takes 7 years to travel the digestive track. The point of these, and many other bad examples of 'conventional wisdom'is that far too often we accept what seems to be reasonable advice or thinking. If there's one thing our blade engineers are great at, it's challenging conventional wisdom. For their latest challenge, they asked "why is today's network model so expensive, burn too much power and completely inflexible?" Read on to see what they came up with. ...(read more)

Introducing the world's first virtualization blade

newtonja — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

If you were going to build a server blade for virtual machines from the ground up, what would it look like? That's the question we posed to the blade engineering team. The ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade was their answer. ...(read more)

5 Steps to Safer Virtual Servers

newtonja — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:17:00 GMT

We hear questions all the time about the security issues of virtual servers. To summarize, "is it too many eggs in one basket?" Chris Whitener, HP's chief security strategist offered 5 steps to safer virtual servers in a recent article in CIO magazine....(read more)