Comments on: Enterprise Computing: HP Announces Converged Infrastructure Architecture http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/11/04/enterprise-computing-hp-announces-converged-infrastructure-architecture/ Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Wed, 23 May 2012 02:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/11/04/enterprise-computing-hp-announces-converged-infrastructure-architecture/#comment-1057 Chris Evans Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:27:48 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=840#comment-1057 Thanks Wolfgang, I will be checking it out. Chris Thanks Wolfgang, I will be checking it out.

Chris

]]> By: Jason Newton http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/11/04/enterprise-computing-hp-announces-converged-infrastructure-architecture/#comment-1058 Jason Newton Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:47:31 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=840#comment-1058 An answer to this - Does this mean HP will offer both VMware and Hyper-V? Yes, HP Converged Infrastructure is hypervisor agnostic and we are doing deep integration with all major players within this strategy at multiple levels of management, storage, networking, etc. In addition, our approach also addresses applications NOT inside a virtual machine. Jason Newton HP Enterprise Systems & Networking An answer to this – Does this mean HP will offer both VMware and Hyper-V?

Yes, HP Converged Infrastructure is hypervisor agnostic and we are doing deep integration with all major players within this strategy at multiple levels of management, storage, networking, etc.

In addition, our approach also addresses applications NOT inside a virtual machine.

Jason Newton
HP Enterprise Systems & Networking

]]> By: Wolfgang Stief http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/11/04/enterprise-computing-hp-announces-converged-infrastructure-architecture/#comment-1059 Wolfgang Stief Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:49:37 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=840#comment-1059 The "SAN Virtualisation Services Platform" is most probably the same product, which Sun sells as ADSS. Both are OEM products of LSI Logic Storage Virtualisation Manager (SVM) which came into LSI by acquiring a company StoreAge several years ago. Per "storage domain" they use a minimim of two DPMs (data path module) and two SVM servers for management. Components are redundant, DPMs are some kind of intelligent fabric. The DPMs are in the data path, connecting backend fabric (storage systems) with frontend (host systems). Configuration is done on the SVM (out-of-band), which will update some kind of "block translation tables" (my own term) in the DPMs. All common storage features are available of course: snapshots, mirrors, synchronous and asynchronous replication, scripting capability, etc. You won't need any high level storage software on the storage systems anymore. Just offer "default" LUNs to the SVM/DPM and manage everything else from there. wolfgang The “SAN Virtualisation Services Platform” is most probably the same product, which Sun sells as ADSS. Both are OEM products of LSI Logic Storage Virtualisation Manager (SVM) which came into LSI by acquiring a company StoreAge several years ago. Per “storage domain” they use a minimim of two DPMs (data path module) and two SVM servers for management. Components are redundant, DPMs are some kind of intelligent fabric.

The DPMs are in the data path, connecting backend fabric (storage systems) with frontend (host systems). Configuration is done on the SVM (out-of-band), which will update some kind of “block translation tables” (my own term) in the DPMs. All common storage features are available of course: snapshots, mirrors, synchronous and asynchronous replication, scripting capability, etc. You won’t need any high level storage software on the storage systems anymore. Just offer “default” LUNs to the SVM/DPM and manage everything else from there.

wolfgang

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