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HP ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Custom ISO Released

Just like clockwork, the day VMware releases a major update to ESXi, HP releases customized installation media the same day. Hard to beat such great and timely support for your VMware environment! Last week VMware released vSphere 5.1 Update 1, and also posted was the HP ESXi 5.1 update 1...

February 2013 HP Service Pack for ProLiant released

For those of you with HP ProLiant servers in your environment, you know that on a quarterly basis HP releases a new "HP Service Pack for ProLiant", which is a combo ISO of firmware, drivers, and tools for your ProLiant rackmount and blade servers. It's very important to keep firmware...

HP Releases vSphere 5.0 U2 Custom ISO

In case you missed my previous blog post, yesterday VMware released vSphere 5.0 Update 2, which fixes a plethora of bugs and plugs security holes. You can find my host here, with links to the release notes for all the gory details. Right on the heels of VMware releasing 5.0...

VMware 3PAR Best Practices Guide for InForm OS 3.1.2

HP recently released a new VMware ESX Implementation Guide that addresses changes in 3PAR InformOS 3.1.2, and VMware 3PAR best practices. One notable change is a new "host persona", 11, which is now recommended for VMware ESX hosts. Persona 11 is VMware specific, and shows up as "VMware" in the CLI. This...

December HP ProLiant VMware Firmware and Software Recipe

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...

HP announces 3PAR 7200 and 7400 mini-me Disk Arrays

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...

HP Service Pack for ProLiant supports Windows Server 2012

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...

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