I recently had the opportunity to deliver a virtual infrastructure which uses HP Lefthand SAN solution.  Setting up a Lefthand SAN is not that difficult, but there are some factors to take into consideration when planning and designing a Lefthand SAN properly. These are my leasons learned.

One of my clients bought a couple of HP blade c7000 enclosures recently. Including the new dual port Flex-10 mezzanine cards (nc532m) and Flex-10 Virtual Connect modules. Due to the fact that this technology is quite new, not much inside-info is found on the web. I’ve had lots of discussions with Ken Cline and Scott [...]

I’m currently reviewing a design of a new virtual infrastructure. The VI uses multiple 10GB links to connect to a very large HP Lefthand san. I’m more a Fibre Channel guy, but I believe that this solution will smoke most mid-range FC-sans. I cannot wait to deploy the VI on the SAN. But I need [...]