As you may or may not have heard, last week HP announced their new mid-range 3PAR arrays, the 7000 series which I covered here. HP is clearly targeting existing EVA users with the aggressively priced 7000s, with a simple and online method to migrate active LUNs to 3PAR. Since the...
A few days ago HP released their December 2012 "recipe" for ProLiant driver and firmware versions which have been tested and blessed for usage with VMware ESXi. Keeping your firmware up to date is very important, as updates often address bugs that you may run into. However, you can't just randomly...
Very quietly HP has released a product called VMware SmartComponents for Insight Control for vCenter. What is that you may ask? Very good question, as I had no idea either and I try to keep up with HP firmware as much as possible. In short, given the right supported environment,...
A few days ago HP released Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server, version 7.1.1. This is a minor update from the 7.1 release, which came out not too long ago. The December release is a minor increment which now supports the 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series announced last week, and v10.0...
Today Microsoft released a 'refreshed' SQL Server 2012 SP1 ISO, which includes two hotfixes for installation problems. They also slimmed down the ISOs so they only contain x86 or x64 bits, not both. From the TechNet description:--This media refresh includes fixes to the installation issue described in KB Article 2792097....
This week in Frankfurt HP is hosting Discover 2012, where they've unveiled some big product announcements. The big news is the birth of the 3PAR 7200 and 7400 arrays, a new line of hardware which drastically pushes down the price point for 3PAR storage firmly into the mid-range. HP is clearly...
Hot off the presses is VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6! Updated products include:vCenter Operations Manager 5.6vCenter Configuration Manager 5.6vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0vCenter Charge Back Manager 2.5vFabric Hyperic 5.0One major improvement is the integration between products. Reading the release notes you consistently see "this release introduces integration with....". It's great...
Right on the heels of vCenter 5.1.0A release, yesterday VMware released vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1. VMware is STRONGLY urging people to upgrade "ASAP", since it fixes the problem documented in KB 2035929. You can check out their full blog post here.
A few days ago I blogged about injecting VMware vSphere drivers into a Windows Server 2012 image, so you can seamlessly install WS2012 inside a VM with PVSCSI and VMXNET hardware. Next up is injecting Cisco UCS drivers into Windows Server 2012, in case you need to install Windows Server...
Just released is the October 2012 HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which has full support for Windows Server 2012. Current support for Windows Server 2012 is focused on G7 and Gen8 servers. G6s and earlier will have limited to no WS2012 support. The 2012.10.0 release has these major changes: Added support for...
Ahead of schedule, Microsoft has released the RTM versions of Office 2013, Visio 2013, Project 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, and Lync 2013. Sign in to your TechNet/MSDN account and download today!
As people quickly found out when vSphere 5.1 was released, installation and configuration of vSphere 5.1 SSL certificates was very painful and no accurate VMware documentation existed. Through a lot of work and help from some of my readers, I published a process that was pretty successful but required some workarounds and...