How VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) will impact your backups

A great article on how VMware VVOLs will impact your backups from Eric:

http://vsphere-land.com/news/how-vmware-virtual-volumes-vvols-will-impact-your-backups.html

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Veeam integrates with HP StoreOnce Catalyst to deliver enhanced data protection

Advancing the data protection your agile, virtualized data center really needs. As long-time technology partners, HP and Veeam have one goal: to enhance and deliver data protection for virtual environments that really works. Veeam integration with HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual snapshots has been available for many years.You might want to check out this blog with an in-depth demo on HP and Veeam integration designed to protect virtual environments.<http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-Storage-and-Veeam-integration-demo/ba-p/174792>



Today we take another significant step in advancing data protection with the announcement of Veeam Availability Suite v9 with HP StoreOnce Catalyst. Before we get into the specifics of the integration, let's take a step back to understand why good data protection is crucial as data centers become more agile and virtualized.

Original blog by Srikanth Venkataseshu:
http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/Veeam-integrates-with-HP-StoreOnce-Catalyst-to-deliver-enhanced/ba-p/187162#.VfWUcHP8XqB

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Gartner - Aruba Networks Acquisition Is a Bold Move to Strengthen HP's Access Layer

On March 2, 2015, Aruba Networks and HP announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire Aruba for a transaction value of $3 billion. Aruba boasts a highly regarded innovation engine and specialized sales, marketing and channel model, which will complement HP’s networking business and go-to-market breadth. Together, Aruba and HP will deliver next-generation converged campus solutions, leveraging the strong Aruba brand.

 

Gartner First Take Report:

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-2BDBNK1&ct=150309&st=sb

 

Aruba Networks Summary Page:

http://www.arubanetworks.com/aruba-and-hp/

 

 

New HP StoreOnce 2900

HP StoreOnce 2900 is designed for larger remote offices and small and midsized businesses with significant amounts of data to be protected.

* It is a 2U backup appliance offering 24TB of raw capacity (15.5TB usable) using 6x 4TB disks.
* It can scale capacity to provide excellent density within the 2U form factor from 24TB to 48TB raw capacity (15.5TB usable -31.5TB Usable) using a 6x 4TB disks upgrade kit.
* It can protect up to 70TB of data in 12 hours (5.8TB/hr ingest performance) via StoreOnce Catalyst and restore up to 41TB (3.4TB/hr restore speed) in the same period

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/New-HP-StoreOnce-2900-enterprise-class-data-protection-for-small/ba-p/181581?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.VQ7hDpH8XqA

Mike
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HP has Day 0 support for vSphere 6.0

VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 and once again HP support is available Day 0.

 

The VMware vSphere 6.0 HP custom ISO is available at the following URLs https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI60GA-HP&productId=491

 

The updated recipe document has been published and is available on vibsdepot at http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/recipes/HP-VMware-Recipe.pdf

 

Release Notes and Getting Started  are available at VMware vSphere 6.0 Documentation

 

The HP VMware HCL is live at HP Servers Support & Certification Matrices - VMware

 

The HP VMware custom image download page is live at  HP VMware vSphere custom image download page

 

The HP Agentless Management Service Offline Bundle for VMware vSphere 6.0, HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware vSphere 6.0, HP ESXi Utilities Offline Bundle for VMware vSphere 6.0 are also live.

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - VCS to VCVA Converter

The VCS to VCVA Converter Appliance is the winning idea from the 2013 Fling Contest. It allows customers to migrate from Windows vCenter Server with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database to the vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded vPostgres database.

The Fling migrates the vCenter database, roles, permissions, privileges, certificates and inventory service. The target appliance will run at the same IP address as the source vCenter.

Download the VCS to VCVA Converter

New Version of LeftHand OS for HP StoreVirtual Now Available

LeftHand O/S is the name of the software OS for HP StoreVirtual. This past week, we released LeftHand OS 12.0. Here's a list of the new features:

* Space Reclamation - StoreVirtual Storage can now reclaim space in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows environments using T10 UNMAP.
* HP StoreVirtual Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) for VMware vSphere - Reduce latency and improve performance in VMware vSphere environments. The MEM also optimizes data-path traffic in multi-site (or stretch-cluster) configurations.
* New REST API - Provision storage, create and modify storage pools using the all new web services based API for HP StoreVirtual.
* Faster remote copy performance and system reboot times.

Find out more at:
http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/New-Version-of-LeftHand-OS-for-HP-StoreVirtual-Now-Available/ba-p/180921#.VPRpIcuibqA

Mike
Michael.Yallits@hp.com