Due to somewhat popular demand here's another post detailing the steps for somewhat successfully installing HP P6000 Command View Simulator on Windows 7 x64. It can be a bitch. The older post is from 2011 with CV 9.4, this one also has PA - performance advisory bundled. Download: http://software …

This post is created upon request by a reader. May or may not be needed for the P6000 Simulator. It is however required when you install the real HP P6000 Command View. First you need to get into 'Computer Management', do this by right-clicking on 'My Computer'. Then click your …

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=P6000EVASimulator Command View EVA is HP's web based management tool for their EVA/P6000 products. It's been looking the same for quite some time except the quite old ones. It's simple to use compared to other management softwares but sure …

The P6000 firmware XCS 10000000 is out, or has been for a while now. You can find it on http://software.hp.com or the link above. The Command View 9.4 release notes are here. Extra nice stuff (besides the obvious ones like new hw support): HDD upgrades via …

Just a good howto - tip - solution. It's a little hard to find good threads. Hard to find something.. should probably write it in here when I think of it. Also the ITRC are moving to another platform in June 2011 so maybe these won't be available after this. ** Update 2011-06-27 …

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Storage-Area-Networks-SAN/XCS-10-000-00/m-p/4789795 2011-07-12: Updated with new link to new HP ITRC forum. Also it looks like VAAI is not implemented in this firmware. Some more news! With Google Translate: "Under the new EVA was also the XCS software updated and is now …

Hey! This is an awesome little trick I just learnt about: instead of doing mv file1.txt file1.txt.old you can do this mv file1.txt{,.old} and it will automagically add a .old at the end of the filename. This is called a brace expansion: http://tldp.org …