Category Archive: Storage

Mar 20

SSD in HP P4000 solution

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You like HP P4000 based storage, you want SSD though?  You could have done it with the VSA previously, and actually, still can, but now the P4900 has turned up.

Feb 24

Prosperity 24.7 gains NetApp partnership

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The company I work for, Prosperity 24.7 have just been awarded the NetApp Silver Partner status, which is great news for the guys working on gaining this partnership, and great news for the Channel Islands as it gives our client base another choice when it comes to data storage solutions.       Our Press …

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Feb 02

vSphere VSA Deep Dive

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I’m a bit behind on this, but VMware released a deep dive technical paper on the VSA solution that has been released.  It can be downloaded from here

Jan 19

VAAI comes to the P2000

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VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a later post).  Let’s just say at this point, if your storage device supports it, implement the required …

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Sep 27

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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