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HPE OneView for VMware vCenter 7.8 released
HPE (got to get used to this new Hewlett Packard Enterprise stuff…) released the latest version of it connector software between HP OneView and VMware vCenter. I was waiting for this one because, since...
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HPE announces Synergy, the hardware platform behind the Composable...
HPE Discover 2015 in London started instantly with a BIG accouncement, that big that the storage announcements were done 2 weeks ago… Says enough. Last summer at the previous Discover event in Las...
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HPE Hyper-Converged 250 goes Microsoft
At HPE Discover in London HP announced besides the new Synergy platform also another important next step in that other new platform being HPE ConvergedSystem CS250 Hyper-Converged StoreVirtual aka...
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HPE upgrades its StoreOnce backup-to-disk platform
The previous series of StoreOnce appliances 2700, 2900, 4500 and 4700 existed quite some time already and were based on HPE Proliant Gen8 hardware. It was obvious that they would ‘upgrade’ to the...
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100% uptime for 7 years with StoreVirtual VSA? Check!
I think I must have been the first one in Belgium being LeftHand Certified, just before HP acquired LeftHand Networks in 2008. As an instructor I was curious for this new technology of Network RAID and...
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StoreOnce Catalyst integration with Veeam 9.0
One of the cool new features in Veeam 9.0 (for the full list check the v9.0 announcement) is the support for StoreOnce Catalyst. Catalyst was already supported by some other vendors but Veeam was on my...
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HowTo: update StoreOnce firmware
With the release of Veeam 9.0 the integration with the HPE StoreOnce platform is extended with the Veeam 9.0 Catalyst support. However, if you want to use this new functionality you will need to...
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Little ones become big: MSA performance boost
With the release of the latest firmware code GL220, the MSA 1040 gets a serious performance boost with the added SSD support. So far SSD support was only available on the MSA 2040. MSA 1040 gets SSD...
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More flexibility with the new HPE Hyper Converged HC250
First there was the CS240/242-HC for VMware with the 15 minute deployment time, then the CS250-HC for Microsoft Cloud Platform System and VMware, and now there is the next step towards the hyper...
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New HPE MyLearning Storage exams released!
Call out to all my students in the past, and people who are interested in becoming HPE certified. HPE MyLearning released on 1 March 2016 the new V2 version of the 3 levels of storage certifications...
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HPE Hyperconverged portfolio boosts with the new HC380
This week HPE announced its 3rd offering in its Hyperconverged portfolio. After the HC250 for VMware vSphere and the HC250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System (both based on Apollo’s 2U chassis with up...
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Getting started with HPE VM Explorer
Some time ago HPE announced that they would acquire Trilead, a small Swiss based company with 1 actual product being VM Explorer being a backup product for VMware and Hyper-V environments. In this...
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10 reasons why to attend HPE Discover
1 week before HPE Discover. Find here a list of reasons why you should join me to this great event from the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise. This is for me some kind of my agenda, things that I should...
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OneView 3.0 announced
One of the major announcements at HPE Discover in Las Vegas was the newest version of its converged/composable management platform OneView 3.0. So what’s really new? OneView Federation With the new...
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Storage conclusions after HPE Discover
OK found my way back home after a fantastic week in Las Vegas at the annual HPE Discover event… Since I was asked to teach twice the Master ASE Storage class to get +50 people certified with the...
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Meet the new 2042: MSA on steroids
Together with the new StoreVirtual 3200 platform, HPE announced at the same time an upgrade of its popular MSA platform. Besides the existing MSA 1040 and MSA 2040 there is now an hybrid MSA 2042 as...
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HPE introduces StoreVirtual 3200: revolution instead of evolution
HPE just eannounced its next generation of StoreVirtual products. The current (physical) StoreVirtual 4000 platform is based on Proliant Gen8 hardware, it would be logic to move on to the current Gen9...
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How-To: initial deployment and configuration of HPE StoreVirtual 3200
With the release of the StoreVirtual 3200 some time ago, HPE released a completely new product leaving all procedures and best practices behind. Therefore, this is a good moment to try out this new...
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How-To: update HPE OneView
With the availability of OneView 3.0 on the HPE Software Depot, means as well that it is time to update my own OneView instance controlling my ‘home lab’. 2 years ago I wrote a similar article already...
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Getting started with HPE OneView Global Dashboard
With the release of OneView 3.0 comes also the initial release of OneView Global Dashboard. This will enable Federation of multiple OneView instances running as a VM appliance or in the new Synergy...
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