Virtual Connect and 3PAR Flat SAN on Infosmack podcast

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By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy  

Several weeks ago at HP Discover, we announced HP Virtual Connect and 3PAR with Flat SAN technology.  I did a podcast with Alex Kramer from the Virtual Connect engineering team that gave a high-level overview.  That podcast is the most downloaded podcast I've had.  When blogger and Infosmack podcast host Nigel Poulton pinged me a few weeks ago to ask about doing a podcast I offered up Alex to him.

If you haven't listened to Infosmack before, you'll see why Nigel calls it a Technical Deep Dive podcast.  With Nigel's permission, I've taken his podcast, added a short introduction and present it to you here. 

If you rather download this as a podcast, right click here and save the MP3 file. You can also subscribe to my podcast on iTunes - go to the iTunes store and search for "Around the Storage Block" or you can open this link and click on the "View in iTunes" button under my picture.

Get more info

I'm not really sure you can get more info than what Nigel's podcast packed into this +50 minute podcast but here are a few things you can check out:

• Find Nigel's blog at nigelpoulton.com and his podcast at infosmackpodcast.com
• Nigel's guest co-host on this show was Hans DeLeenheer.  He also has a blog post about Virtual Connect that you should check out.
• I have a lot of blog posts (afraid to tell you how many or you might not take a look!) from HP Discover, many with videos and podcasts that are loaded with info.  Here's a link that lists all of my Discover blog posts.   

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Are there any whitepapers or any kind of documentation which i can go through for understanding basically how it works ? Also how are the zones & npiv capability supported on this ? is it the 3par box that supports NPIV or the virtual connect that handles it

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@Sunieal_09 - Here's the Virtual Connect Cookbook and starting on page 79, there's lots of details about the Flat SAN technology.