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What is VM density with VMware and how to improve it

370x190-simplify-gvg-nolink.jpgThe other day, I introduced you to our new HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee.  Today, I have a podcast with my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert.  If you've been reading my blog, you know that HP 3PAR is a modern architecture designed with virtualization and cloud in mind.  In the podcast, Eric helps us understand some of the storage challenges created by server virtualization and how HP 3PAR's architecture overcomes those challenges. 

 

I also have a blog post on the VMware Alliances blog - that post has a YouTube version of the podcast I did with Eric, so if you're a visual person head over there and take a look at the blog post.  

 

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HP LeftHand is first iSCSI vMSC certification

VMware HCL vMSC small.pngI just learned that the official VMware certification of the HP LeftHand Multi-Site SAN for vSphere Metro Storage Cluster is compete.  HP LeftHand is the first and currently only iSCSI array to achieve that certification. 

 

I had recently talked about this pending certification with our HP LeftHand and VMware expert Brad Katz and my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert.  That blog post was titled VMware vSphere Metro Cluster Storage certification and if you're not familiar with vMSC, I highly recommend that you check out that blog post with a podcast. 

Labels: HP LeftHand| vMSC| VMware

HP ProLiant Gen8 teardown videos

My colleagues on the ProLiant team have a Gen8 Tech Day (for bloggers) in Houston. I'm jealous that I can't be there but I couldn't make this one because it's my daughter's 17th birthday - priorities!  If you want to see what they have going on at the Gen8 Tech Day, they have a website to connect with the conversation. I also see that Mike Letschin is a blogging machine and has a few blog posts from the Gen8 Tech Day.  He's also posted some pictures of a Gen8 teardown.  I also just noticed a blog post from Matt Vogt he titled HP Gen8: Smarter hardware.

 

There's more to see in my blog post so be sure to click over to the article.

 

 

 

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3PAR Thin Provisioning

LaMills Garrett had sent a few tweets wanting to clarify some confusion he's seeing around 3PAR thin provisioning.  LaMills is our HP 3PAR Americas product manager and I've known him for a long time - going back to more than 10 years ago when he was working in R&D.  After seeing his tweets, I thought it might be a good excuse for a short, Sunday night getting back into the swing of things blog post.  So here's what LaMills said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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