Month: March 2010

HP BL490c G6 Ethernet driver update for ESX(i) 4.0

Ok so I'm a bit tardy in this notification, but VMware released a new version of the Ethernet driver for the 10Gbps NIC that's in the HP BL490c G6 servers, and other brands as well. Technically the update is for Broadcom NetExtreme II BCM57710/BCM57711/BCM57711E NICs. In HP terms this is...

An affordable iSCSI/NFS/NAS box for your house

A co-worker of mine, Mark, turned me on to this company called QNAP. They make a really dizzying array of SOHO and small/medium business "NetApp" like NAS devices. These little babies support a wide range of protocols including iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, ftp, etc. It's really amazing what these critters can...

RIP Fibre Channel Drives – Hello storage tiering

Last week I was listening to a HP video where the HP CTO said that Fibre Channel drives will cease to exist in the coming years. Instead, enterprise storage disk arrays will be configured with two tiers of storage: SSD and SATA. I thought for a minute, and this made...

Critical VMware vSphere 4.0 Updates Posted

Hot off the press! Last night VMware posted critical updates to vSphere 4.0. You can find the patches here. If you want to read the release notes, they are available here. Patches apply to both ESX and ESXi hosts.This does not appear to be Update 2, which was rumored to...

HP FCoE Videos Released

Back in January I wrote a blog about emerging Ethernet standards that are converging Ethernet, Fibre Channel and virtualization. During one of HP's recent tech days they had a session on all of these new standards, their ratification status, and how they will apply to HP products. Even if you...