October 2008
Monthly Technical and Sales related Partner Updates from HPM Networks.
Online Version: October 2008 | All Updates
Highlights:
HP
October 2008
Monthly Technical and Sales related Partner Updates from HPM Networks.
Online Version: October 2008 | All Updates
Highlights:
HP
HP Updates
HP ProLiant - New Products Announcing September 15, 2008
Various Product Announcements from HP.
HP StorageWorks - New Products Announcing September 15, 2008
HP StorageWorks Announcing September 15, 2008
HP Acquires LeftHand Networks to Extend Leadership in Storage and Virtualization Solutions
HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks Inc., a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions.
Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks is privately held and headquartered in Boulder, Colo. It has 215 employees and more than 500 resellers and distributors worldwide. The company has more than 11,000 installations across 3,000 different customers.
A pioneer of iSCSI SAN technology, LeftHand Networks delivers scalable storage software on industry-standard hardware that supports existing technology environments. LeftHand Networks’ portfolio extends HP virtualization solutions to the midmarket with software that runs on both existing storage and industry-standard server hardware, reducing training time and overall complexity. As a result, companies can move to a SAN for significantly lower cost, manage their data more easily, and scale their storage infrastructures incrementally as their businesses grow.
HP Exclusive Systems Provider for Oracle Exadata
Oracle Exadata Announcement on Oracle.com
Oracle Exadata is a family of high performance storage software and hardware products that can improve data warehouse query performance by a factor of 10X or more. Oracle Exadata Storage is a combination of smart storage software from Oracle and industry-standard hardware from HP. Overcoming the limitations of conventional storage, Oracle Exadata uses a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage. In addition, smart storage software offloads data-intensive query processing from Oracle Database 11g Servers and does the query processing closer to the data. The result - faster, parallel data processing and less data movement through higher bandwidth connections.
The Oracle Exadata Storage Server is based on the HP ProLiant DL180 G5 server, and is a fast, reliable, high-capacity, industry-standard storage building block. With a choice of SAS or SATA drives and a storage capacity up to 12 TB, it has Oracle Exadata software pre-installed. In addition to extremely fast query processing for your large data warehouses, the massively parallel architecture offers linear scalability and mission-critical reliability.
| HP Earns a #1 VMmark Score for DL785 G5 8-Way Server | |
| HP ProLiant is the World Leader in VMware Performance! The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 is the highest performing server on the VMmark benchmark, with a VMmark score of 21.88@16 tiles. The industry’s 8-socket workhorse managed the largest number of virtual machines ever achieved on an x86 platform - 96 virtual machines. Customers can achieve nearly 600 virtual machines per 42U rack! Visit the ProLiant Benchmarks page. |
VMware Updates
VMware ESX and ESXi Comparison
This article provides a detailed comparison of VMware ESX and VMware ESXi. The article is separated in to capabilities or features and compared at that level.
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) simplifies VMotion compatibility issues across CPU generations. EVC automatically configures server CPUs with Intel FlexMigration or AMD-V Extended Migration technologies to be compatible with older servers. After EVC is enabled for a cluster in the VirtualCenter inventory, all hosts in that cluster are configured to present identical CPU features and ensure CPU compatibility for VMotion. The features presented by each host are determined by selecting a predefined EVC baseline. VirtualCenter does not permit the addition of hosts that cannot be automatically configured to be compatible with the EVC baseline.
VMware Announces the Next Generation of Virtualization – the Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS)
Today at VMworld 2008, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, announced a comprehensive roadmap of groundbreaking new products and technologies that expand its flagship suite of virtual infrastructure into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS). The Virtual Datacenter OS allows businesses to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources - servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for additional compute capacity. Datacenters running on the Virtual Datacenter OS are highly elastic, self-managing and self-healing. With the Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware, businesses large and small can benefit from the flexibility and the efficiency of the “lights-out” datacenter.
VMware Improves Desktop User Experience with Licensing Agreement from Wyse Technology
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced a licensing agreement with Wyse Technology to use its remote display software to enhance RDP for VMware View. Bolstering its vClient Initiative and its commitment to support broad customer choice for the use of multiple protocol technologies, VMware plans to integrate two components of Wyse's software suite into a future release of VMware View™.
Cisco and VMware Accelerate Innovation in Data Center Virtualization
Industry leaders in virtualization Cisco and VMware® today announced that they are collaborating to deliver joint data center solutions designed to improve the scalability and operational control of virtual environments. The Cisco Nexus® 1000V distributed virtual software switch is expected to be an integrated option in VMware Infrastructure. Cisco and VMware will also combine their expertise in networking and virtualization to introduce a new set of multidisciplinary professional services and reseller certification training in support of customers’ data center virtualization strategies. In parallel, Cisco and VMware are collaborating on integrating VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions with Cisco® Application Delivery Networking solutions to improve the performance of virtual desktops delivered across wide-area networks (WANs).
VMware Futures - Demonstration videos of 2009 features
Infrastructure vServices
(2009) vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch - http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/DVS_Demo_800x600.html
(2009) vCenter host profile - http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/Hostprofiles_Linked_VC_800x600.html
Application vServices
(2009) Storage vMotion UI from within vCenter
http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/Storage_VMotion_800x600.html
(2009) vCenter Fault Tolerance
http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/FT_Demo_800x600.html
Management vServices
(2009) Monitoring & Automated Remediation
http://download3.vmware.com/vdcos/demos/Hostprofiles_Linked_VC_800x600.html
