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HP Discover 2011

HP made several announcments at HP Discover 2011 – Vienna, some new backup kit, some additions to HP Data Protector and a new NAS based device, all designed to optimize the information infrastructure. The B6200 StoreOnce Backup System is the fastest deduplication solution in its class and the only one to offer complete high availability …

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VMware Certified Professional 5 – the ins and outs

I’ve just sat and passed my VCP 5 exam and thought I’d pass on some of the things I did to prepare for this. Home Lab – Luckily I have a couple of HP DL based servers to be able to deploy a vSphere 5 (which can be downloaded with 60 day evaluation licenses) environment …

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HP Firmware Updates – How to do it the HP recommended way

So, you manage and maintain HP Servers (DL, BL, Matrix Environments etc.) and you’re usual firmware update procedure is to chuck on the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD when you think you should and just update all the firmware on the server. Probably not the best way to do it, but I bet a lot …

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Hyper-V Windows Server 8 – New Features

Just found this blog post from Michael Otey of WindowsITPro and thought it rather interesting, so I’ve re-blogged it for your enjoyment! 🙂 At the recent Windows Server Workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington Jeff Woolsey, Principle Program Manager Lead for Windows Virtualization in the Windows Server and Cloud division presented the new …

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SAN/IQ 9.5 Updates

Here are some new features being introduced in SAN/IQ 9.5 for the HP P4000 range: CMC SAN Status Homepage is implemented which shows a summary of multiple management groups, rather than at the moment having to login to each group manually.  Good for use on a NOC when monitoring & managing multiple groups. VSA Scripted …

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