Monthly Archive: April 2011

Apr 19

First EMEA HP Channel Partner Matrix InstallFest

Being described as elite and crème de la crème is always a brilliant way to start a course.  But this was no ordinary course I was attending, because of ITEX’s (the HP Channel Partner I currently work for) outstanding partnership with HP, and coupled with my not too shabby qualifications 🙂 I had been invited …

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Apr 18

To FOM or not to FOM, that is the question!

You have a mutli node P4000 environment, do you need a Fail Over Manager (FOM) or not? But first, what the hell is a FOM? The FOM is a specialized version of the SAN/iQ software. It runs as a virtual appliance in VMware that can be run on ESX, ESXi VMware Workstation or VMware player.  …

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