http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/ba-p/112887 <p><img src="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12i9AFDFAD873D5E762/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="CartoonCalvin100X100.JPG" title="CartoonCalvin100X100.JPG" width="100" height="100" align="middle" /><font size="3">By Calvin Zito, @<strong><a title="Follow me on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/hpstorageguy" target="_blank">HPStorageGuy</a>&nbsp; <img src="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4731i958616122CF840D3/image-size/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="vmw-vexpert.jpg" title="vmw-vexpert.jpg" width="200" height="36" align="middle" /></strong></font></p> <p><font size="3">Have you ever found yourself waiting for a letter in your mailbox and for days it doesn't come - and then it finally does.&nbsp; Well, today the letter arrived and I happy to tell you about it.&nbsp; HP LeftHand is now on the <strong><a href="http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san" target="_blank">VMware hardware compatiability list (HCL)</a></strong> as the only iSCSI vSphere Metro Cluster Storage certified solution.&nbsp; </font></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><font size="3"><img src="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11481i152F3FD5D4FD14A4/image-size/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="VMware HCL vMSC.png" title="VMware HCL vMSC.png" align="left" />I had recently talked about this pending certification with our HP LeftHand and VMware expert Brad Katz and my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert.&nbsp; That blog post was titled <a href="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/VMware-vSphere-Metro-Storage-Cluster-certification/ba-p/109207" target="_blank"><strong>VMware vSphere Metro Cluster Storage certification</strong> </a>and if you're not familiar with vMSC, I highly recommend that you check out that blog post with a podcast.&nbsp; </font></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><font size="3">Here are a couple of other things to help you understand this:</font></p> <ul> <li><font size="3">VMware Knowledge Base (KB) article, <strong><a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2020097" target="_blank">Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site</a></strong></font></li> <li><font size="3">We have <a href="http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA4-0955ENW.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>a technical white paper</strong> </a>that is covering the same topic</font></li> <li><font size="3">You can see the official certification on the <a href="http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san" target="_blank"><strong>VMware HCL</strong> </a>- on the top right-side of the page under test configuration click on iscsi metro cluster storage and then click on the "Update and review results" page</font></li> </ul> Wed, 09 May 2012 22:23:55 GMT CalvinZ 2012-05-09T22:23:55Z http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/ba-p/112887 <p><img src="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11485i97BD0EADF9A864DA/image-size/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="VMware HCL vMSC small.png" title="VMware HCL vMSC small.png" align="left" />I just learned that the official VMware certification of the HP LeftHand Multi-Site SAN for vSphere Metro Storage Cluster is compete.&nbsp; HP LeftHand is the first and currently only&nbsp;iSCSI array to achieve that certification.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I had recently talked about this pending certification with our HP LeftHand and VMware expert Brad Katz and my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert.&nbsp; That blog post was titled <a href="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/VMware-vSphere-Metro-Storage-Cluster-certification/ba-p/109207" target="_blank"><strong>VMware vSphere Metro Cluster Storage certification</strong> </a>and if you're not familiar with vMSC, I highly recommend that you check out that blog post with a podcast.&nbsp;</p> Wed, 09 May 2012 22:23:55 GMT http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/ba-p/112887 CalvinZ 2012-05-09T22:23:55Z http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/bc-p/112899#M1797 <p>Glad to see it certified by VMware now.  We've been using this design for our VMware clusters between two campus datacenters for over four years, and it's worked beautifully.</p> Wed, 09 May 2012 22:55:23 GMT http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/bc-p/112899#M1797 adamtlittle 2012-05-09T22:55:23Z http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/bc-p/113081#M1800 <p>@adamtlittle - we're glad too and always great to hear from a customer using it with great success.&nbsp; Thanks!</p> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:46:03 GMT http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-LeftHand-is-first-iSCSI-vMSC-certification/bc-p/113081#M1800 CalvinZ 2012-05-11T17:46:03Z