BL460c Baldes and the VMWare Hypervisor

[Nikumba]

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

 

[Nikumba]

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

 

[Nikumba]

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

 

[Nikumba]

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