Architecture
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Why HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage for Client Virtualization and best practices |
Updated: 2013-04-25
Reviewed: 2013-04-25
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Technical paper describing best practices for configuring and operating HP Storage (HP 3PAR StoreServ) in a VDI environment. Targeted audience would be presales SAs, installation technicians, IT storage administrators.
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HP ProLiant Gen8 and StoreServ 7400 Hyper-V solution for Windows Server 2012: Solution recommended architecture |
Updated: 2013-04-02
Reviewed: 2013-04-02
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With HP Converged Infrastructure components and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, you can transform your data center into a flexible cloud computing environment to provide IT services on demand for current and future business needs.
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HP VirtualSystem VS2 for Microsoft: Reference architecture for building a Microsoft Hyper-V environment on HP Converged Infrastructure with integrated management |
Updated: 2012-09-20
Reviewed: 2012-09-20
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This document provides basic information needed to build a pre-tested, highly-available solution using HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blades, HP LeftHand 4800 storage, and HP Networking in a highly virtualized Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
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Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on HP Converged Infrastructure |
Updated: 2012-05-08
Reviewed: 2012-05-08
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Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Hyper-V R2 can be a cost effective way to reduce costs in day to day operations. This paper outlines best practices for a virtual deployment of SharePoint with Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP VirtualSystem.
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Implementing a Microsoft private cloud on HP VirtualSystem with Microsoft System Center 2012 |
Updated: 2012-04-10
Reviewed: 2012-04-10
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This document provides guidelines for configuring a private cloud infrastructure based on HP VirtualSystem and Microsoft System Center 2012.
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Enterprise Reference Architecture for Client Virtualization for HP VirtualSystem: Implementing the HP Architecture for Citrix XenDesktop on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V |
Updated: 2011-06-22
Reviewed: 2011-06-22
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This document is for IT architects and engineers planning to implement Citrix XenDesktop on Hyper-V and are interested in understanding the unique capabilities and solutions that HP, Citrix, and Microsoft bring to the Client Virtualization market.
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Recommended mid-market configurations for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and HP 3PAR F-Class storage arrays |
Updated: 2011-03-08
Reviewed: 2011-03-08
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HP 3PAR storage arrays are highly capable, flexible, and reliable. This paper focuses on mid-range offerings of the HP 3PAR F200 and F400 storage systems and how they benefit mid-range storage customer needs in a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environment.
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Building a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V failover cluster with HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric |
Updated: 2010-06-21
Reviewed: 2010-06-21
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This white paper provides an illustration of how to build a two-node Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster with HP ProLiant server blades and HP Virtual Connect (VC) FlexFabric.
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Best practices for deploying an HP EVA array with Microsoft Hyper-V R2 |
Updated: 2010-02-24
Reviewed: 2010-02-24
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This white paper presents storage-focused best practices for deploying Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on an HP BladeSystem with an HP EVA for storage. Concepts discussed range from Vraid levels to virtual hard disks, to management applications and more.
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HP BladeSystem reference architecture for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization (Hyper-V)
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Updated: 2009-10-27
Reviewed: 2009-10-27
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This document describes HP validated reference architectures intended for the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Hyper-V R2) on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure.
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clustering with HP BladeSystem and HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array |
Updated: 2009/03/13
Reviewed: 2009/03/13
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This document
presents a general-purpose architecture designed for the high-availability
deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Hyper-V) on an HP
BladeSystem infrastructure with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
storage.
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| Benchmarks and performance |
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Performance characterization for HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V |
Updated: 2011-04-19
Reviewed: 2011-04-19 |
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This report presents a performance characterization for an HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. VMs on the DL980 represent consolidated servers and have SQL Server 2008 SP1 running under a generic OLTP workload
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HP Converged Infrastructure enterprise reference architecture for client virtualization: Citrix XenDesktop on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V |
Updated: 2010-07-28
Reviewed: 2010-07-28
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The HP reference configuration outlined in this guide is intended to help you build a virtualized Microsoft Windows XP solution capable of supporting approximately 800 Microsoft Office 2007 users.
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Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP StorageWorks P4500 SAN storage |
Updated: 2010-06-04
Reviewed: 2010-06-04
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This paper focuses on the performance characterization of the HP StorageWorks P4500 21.6TB SAS Multi-site SAN Solution, addressing questions about deploying Microsoft Hyper-V R2 VMs on HP ProLiant BL490c virtualization blades and HP P4500 iSCSI SAN.
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Best practices
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HP best practices for configuring Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant and StorageWorks MSA2000fc technologies |
Updated: 2009-05-14
Reviewed: 2009-05-14
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This paper discusses best practices for creating and configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines on HP ProLiant servers and considerations for installing and configuring an HP StorageWorks MSA2000fc SAN in a Hyper-V environment.
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Performance analysis and power savings of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
consolidation on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V |
Updated: 2009-01-12
Reviewed: 2009-01-12
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This white paper
describes testing done using the same Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 workload in
a physical and virtual environment and measuring the potential power consumption
savings in the virtual environment.
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High availability/Disaster recovery
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Live Migration across data centers and disaster tolerant virtualization architecture with HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension and Microsoft Hyper-V |
Updated: 2010-01-28
Reviewed: 2010-01-28
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This paper briefly touches upon the Hyper-V and Cluster Extension (CLX) key features, functionality, best practices and various use cases. It also shows the step-by-step details for creating a CLX solution in Hyper-V environment from scratch.
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Installation
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How to install Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades |
Updated: 2009-01-20
Reviewed: 2009-01-20
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Microsoft Hyper-V is
a hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a key feature of Windows
Server 2008. This paper describes how to install Hyper-V on HP ProLiant server
blades and troubleshoot common problems during the installation process.
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How to configure Failover Clustering for Hyper-V hosts on HP ProLiant c-Class
server blades with All-in-One SB600c storage blade |
Updated: 2008-10-31
Reviewed: 2008-10-31
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This paper describes
how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering, with HP ProLiant
server blades and an HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c storage blade, to provide
high availability to Hyper-V host servers or parent partitions.
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Management
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Implementing the HP Cloud Map for Microsoft Hyper-V cluster server auto flexing |
Updated: 2013-03-29
Reviewed: 2013-03-29
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The paper provides an overview of the HP Cloud Map for Microsoft Hyper-V cluster. The Cloud Map enables creation of a Hyper-V cluster using HP CloudSystem Matrix.
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HP CloudSystem Enterprise: A Microsoft Web application Reference Implementation using Hyper-V clusters |
Updated: 2013-01-28
Reviewed: 2013-01-28
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This paper describes an implementation solution which deploys a Microsoft Web Application on an HP CloudSystem Enterprise environment. Database and application installation and configuration are automated with a Cloud Service Automation service design.
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Simplifying the Desktop Transformation with HP and Liquidware Labs |
Updated: 2012-02-13
Reviewed: 2012-02-13
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This document discusses how HP and Liquidware Labs combine to help simplify the move to desktop virtualization.
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Recommended enterprise configurations for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and HP 3PAR T-Class Storage Systems |
Updated: 2011-03-16
Reviewed: 2011-03-16
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HP 3PAR storage arrays are highly capable, flexible, and reliable. This paper focuses on enterrprise offerings of the HP 3PAR T400 and T800 storage systems, and how they benefit enterprise storage customer needs in a SharePoint 2010 environment.
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HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V – Use cases implementation guide |
Updated: 2011-01-14
Reviewed: 2011-01-14
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The document describes the 4 use cases implemented in the HP Private Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V solution. Products used in the scenarios include HP BladeSystem Matrix, HP Insight Control Environment and Microsoft System Center products.
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Performance and Scalability
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HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer Performance |
Updated: 2013-02-28
Reviewed: 2013-02-28
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This is a technical white paper on the performance benefits of Windows Server 2012 Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX), VHDX, VM Live Storage Migration, VM Export and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage including best practices and performance results.
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Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant G6 servers with Intel Xeon X5500 or AMD Opteron 8400 processors |
Updated: 2010-02-04
Reviewed: 2010-02-04
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This document presents results of performance characterization tests for the ProLiant G6 servers with Intel Xeon X5500 series or AMD Opteron 8400 processors running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
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Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant DL785 G6 servers |
Updated: 2009-12-17
Reviewed: 2009-12-17
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This paper presents performance characterization results for an HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Various configurations were tested showing that the DL786 G6 is an excellent platform for virtualization.
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Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array |
Updated: 2009-10-30
Reviewed: 2009-10-30
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This paper focuses on the performance characterization of the disk sub-system, addressing questions about deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 with the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 for backend storage.
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Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 servers |
Updated: 2009-10-30
Reviewed: 2009-10-30
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This paper presents performance characterization results for the HP ProLiant BL490c G6 server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. It describes key virtualization capabilities which make it a good platform for Hyper-V virtualization.
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Sizing & Configuration
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Integrating Microsoft Exchange 2010 with Hyper-V Failover Clustering on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 servers using EVA and CA-EVA storage technologies |
Updated: 2010-03-09
Reviewed: 2010-03-09
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This paper discusses implementation guidelines
for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Hyper-V based clustering and Live Migration, supported by HP
ProLiant G6 servers and StorageWorks EVA storage arrays and software.
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Quick sizing guide for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 running on HP ProLiant servers |
Updated: 2010-06-18
Reviewed: 2010-06-18
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This white paper provides basic sizing guidance for sizing older physical application servers onto a Microsoft Hyper-V R2 virtualized architecture running on HP ProLiant servers.
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HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 |
Updated: 2010-06-01
Reviewed: 2010-06-01
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The HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 is an automated, downloadable tool that provides quick and helpful sizing guidance for “best-fit” HP server and storage configurations running in a Hyper-V R2 environment. The tool is intended to assist with the planning of a Hyper-V R2 virtual server deployment project. It enables the user to quickly compare different solution configurations and produces a customizable server and storage solution complete with a detail Bill of Materials (BOM) that includes part numbers and prices.
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