Friday, May 30, 2014

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator

This Fling enables you to easily run vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows from within Wavemaker web applications. It covers much of the Workflow Presentation dialogs available in vCO, with Java services exposing the main vCO functionality. Additionally, you get a demo application.

Features:

- Widget library for Wavemaker
- Java services, exposing the main vCO API functions
- WaveOperator demo project, mimicking the popular WebOperator vCO application, and extending it to new and exciting capabilities.

Downlaod Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator

Thursday, May 29, 2014

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage: Bringing Tier-1 innovation to the midrange market

3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage has certainly shaken things up in the midrange SAN storage market over the past year. The impressive market share gains and recent spate of industry awards are testimony to that. (In a recent blog post, HPStorageGuy Calvin Zito describes how 3PAR StoreServ is selling like hotcakes.) 

Our customers are taking advantage of the Tier-1 data services available in the 7000, including two unique innovations that set 3PAR StoreServ 7000 apart from any other midrange arrays in the market today:

- Persistent technologies that power 3PAR StoreServ 7000 in delivering high availability Tier-1 resiliency with Persistent Cache, Persistent Ports and Peer Persistence
-  HP 3PAR Priority Optimization software that enables service levels for applications or tenants with a flexible priority policy

Read on to see how the 3PAR StoreServ 7000 truly delivers on its promise of Tier-1 storage at midrange prices.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage: Bringing Tier-1 innovation to the midrange market

Original post by:
Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, HP 3PAR Product Manager

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Storage Happenings at HP Discover

With HP Discover around the corner in Las Vegas from June 10-12, I wanted to let you know how you can get the most out of the storage happenings there - and as in the past, there is a lot. 

The Big 3

What are the big 3?  The storage keynote, the booth ceremony and our storage party.  These are not to be missed!

The storage keynote is hosted by SVP and GM of HP Storage David Scott.  The title is Say "yes" to change! Why customers are moving to HP Storage and is session #TK4190.  Our keynote essentially kicks off HP Discover on Tuesday at 10 AM. 

Join us in the Discover Zone on Tuesday night at 6:30 PM where we'll have a special booth ceremony.  If you attend the keynote and come to the Discover Zone booth ceremony, you'll have a chance to win one of 10 Beats by Dr. Dre wireless headphones.  But you'll need to be at the keynote to get those details.

To attend the HP Storage party come to the storage  keynote and the booth ceremony to get the details and your way into the party on Tuesday night.

Monday, May 26, 2014

New Book - Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.5

This is a step-by-step guide that will help you understand disaster recovery using VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5. The topics and configuration procedures are accompanied with relevant screenshots, flow-charts, and logical diagrams that makes grasping the concepts easier.

If you are a solution architect or administrator who is interested in using VMware s vCenter Site Recovery Manager as a DR solution, this is the book for you. It is also an excellent handbook for on-field engineers, customer engineers, and support professionals. Although, the book assumes that you have a basic knowledge of virtualization using VMware, it can still be used by those of you who are new to virtualization.

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager