BL460c Baldes and the VMWare Hypervisor

Nikumba · 18 Nov 2009 at 23:48

Quick question we are looking at using these blades for our virtualisation project, as I understand it they have some form of onboard flash so the hyper visor can be installed onto.

However I can not seem to find any documentation to support this.

Can someone point me in the right direction please

Thanks

Rwac · 19 Nov 2009 at 09:42

HP have begun to include internal USB ports on Proliants for 'out of the box' virtualisation solutions.

HP Integrated VMware ESXi 4 from HP
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esx3i/index.html

HP integrated Citrix XenServer
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPXS

I am delivering some infrastructure next month which has this solution.

jaket · 19 Nov 2009 at 09:54

Rwac said:
HP have begun to include internal USB ports on Proliants for 'out of the box' virtualisation solutions.

HP Integrated VMware ESXi 4 from HP
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esx3i/index.html

I am delivering some infrastructure next month which has this solution.

We use this in our company and I must say its very easy to use. Very scaleable.

Nikumba · 19 Nov 2009 at 10:38

So we just need to buy a decent small USB stick, plug it in to the internal USB socket and install to there?

We are just doing standard virtulisation, not worrying about Xen

Kimbie

jaket · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:04

Nikumba said:
So we just need to buy a decent small USB stick, plug it in to the internal USB socket and install to there?

We are just doing standard virtulisation, not worrying about Xen

Kimbie

Not even that. HP Provide the Software on USB Sticks so all you need to do is order some from HP they delivery each Stick in a huge box... You then wack them into the server(s) and use whatever management software your using.

Nikumba · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:06

jaket said:
Not even that. HP Provide the Software on USB Sticks so all you need to do is order some from HP they delivery each Stick in a huge box... You then wack them into the server(s) and use whatever management software your using.

Do you have a HP part code for that item? Also which version of the VMware hypervisor does it come with as we are looking to use vSphere

Cheers

Kimbie

jaket · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:39

I will dig it out for you.

CraigN · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:59

isnt it jsut a cut down version of vmware tho ? as you cant fit the whole lot on a flash memory device ?

i use said blades but with two 72gb SAS drives for vmware install and its paging files. Connected to a EVA 4400

Nikumba · 19 Nov 2009 at 12:01

Cheers jaket

Its not a cut down version as such, its a hypervisor to allow vCentre access to the hardware, its a very basic kernel.

We are going this route as the OS, Data etc will he stored on a new SAN, and the images will boot from it as well

Kimbie

jaket · 19 Nov 2009 at 14:46

Nikumba said:
Cheers jaket

Its not a cut down version as such, its a hypervisor to allow vCentre access to the hardware, its a very basic kernel.

We are going this route as the OS, Data etc will he stored on a new SAN, and the images will boot from it as well

Kimbie

Your welcome. Im just about to shoot of somewhere somewhere been a busy day today so I will have to get back to it.

The sticks are mainly used for enterprise's that use vSphere as its easier to manage from the console, plus u can manage a whole rack of blades from vSphere using ESXi.