HP SIM 5.3 kills iLOv2

Recently at the request of our vendor (HP), I went and had HP Systems Insight Manager updated to 5.3 about 3 weeks.  Now this isn’t “bleeding edge” and so I didn’t feel it was a big deal to jump up to it already.   Well over the past 3 weeks I’ve been getting this new alert [...]

Posted on March 17, 2009 at 7:41 pm by iguy · Permalink · 7 Comments
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Cisco’s now a full service stop

Cisco’s throwing their gloves into the ring for server hardware. Now they can offer Server Hardware, Datacenter Experts (strong in Server Virtualization with their investments into VMware) and Networking Hardware.  All they need now is to offer some Storage Virtualization Appliance on their Server Hardware and they can start to offer the whole [...]

Posted on January 21, 2009 at 7:58 pm by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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HP BL495c – Virtualization Blade?

HP finally came out with the official information on the heavy duty blade for use in VMware environments.   This blade for the c-Chassis is the BL495c which has 16 slots for Memory DIMMs and two AMD Opteron processors.   Its the official Virtualization Blade.
There’s just a couple of gotchas here coming from someone that would like [...]

Posted on October 15, 2008 at 2:47 am by iguy · Permalink · 4 Comments
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