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 …

Hard to tell.. but if you see this pretty cool 6min movie: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1430 you'll see that they mention a collider. This thing sends out lots of data from each collision. I administrate a system that gets a little bit (very little) of that …

Guten aben! Darmstadt is a very beautiful city. It's quite old and there are lots of parks and eh, cool, houses. A person from the UK said yesterday (in the pub Ratkeller) something like this: "A particle physicist's raison d'être is to find complexities, they wouldn't turn away from one …

On theregister there was recently a post that maybe HP will announce the new EVA's in Vegas in June - the P6000. I just opened a discussion on the ITRC forum, maybe we'll see some more posts there. I myself am hoping for some thin provisioning or why not SAS backends …

** 2011-08-18 Just updated the link to the HP forum. I also wrote a primer to Data Storage. Just listened to this podcast episode #96 of Infosmack on theregister (about storage). Very interesting to hear what some really experienced people say about storage and the future. Like hybrid disk drives becoming …