You\u2019ve probably already read about the announcement where HP and Microsoft are aligning their technologies on the virtualisation, management, storage and deployment front. Slap-bang in the middle of this is Hyper-V.<\/p>\n
This was interesting. Even up to last month, HP in Ireland was pretending Hyper-V didn\u2019t exist. Every bit of their marketing was 100% around VMware. Their biggest enterprise storage\/server reseller only started to play with Hyper-V for the very first time in December, only to see if it was something they wanted to sell or not.<\/p>\n
Now we read that HP considers Hyper-V to be their primary virtualisation platform. I\u2019d wonder if that\u2019s something to do with EMC and VMware cosying up to each other. HP would prefer their LeftHand, EVA and XP SAN to be in that position, I\u2019m sure. If they\u2019d hung around then I\u2019m sure Dell would have taken a strong position with Microsoft on this front. They\u2019re equally as capable with their server, storage and System Center integration \u2013 which you could argue is as good, if not better, than HP\u2019s. And there is the NetApp alliance with MS on the Hyper-V front. Talking with HP people from time to time and reading HP blogs, they really do not like NetApp!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a HP Blade, EVA, Hyper-V and System Center customer so the HP\/MS announcement is good for me. I\u2019d guess we won\u2019t see anything of substance this year. I\u2019d hope whatever comes won\u2019t just be some paid for bolt on in the HP catalog. I\u2019d expect to see developments on EVA CLX to give us CSV between EVA SAN\u2019s in different sites (only support per LUN VM deployments at the moment) and a solution for the XP. There\u2019ll probably be some Hyper-V branded LeftHand as well \u2013 HP are really pushing LeftHand iSCSI storage and I can see why. It\u2019s an attractive looking package.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve probably already read about the announcement where HP and Microsoft are aligning their technologies on the virtualisation, management, storage and deployment front. Slap-bang in the middle of this is Hyper-V. This was interesting. Even up to last month, HP in Ireland was pretending Hyper-V didn\u2019t exist. Every bit of their marketing was 100% around … Continue reading “Thinking About HP and Microsoft\u2019s Announcement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[64,181,193],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hp","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}