Flashing a HPE MSA 1040 via FTP

HPE MSA 1040 Storage Array

In this article, we are going to flash an HPE MSA 1040 via FTP. At work, I faced a problem with a couple of HPE MSA 1040 storage arrays. Three out of ten were not displaying their web interface after about 200 days of uptime. This is not really a known problem for the HPE …

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Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Generally Available

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A couple of weeks ago Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 was made available for download. New features Some great new features have been introduced in the Veeam Availability Suite 9.5: Microsoft 2016 server support (Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016) Microsoft 2016 services support (Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server) Storage Snapshot support for Nimble …

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VMware vSphere 6.5 General Availability

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VMware vSphere 6.5 is General Available (GA) so this means it is available for download on the VMware website! For those who like to try out vSphere 6.5. The download mirrors are listed below. It might be a good idea to wait a couple of months or even until vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is released …

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VMware vSphere 6.5 Announced

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At VMworld 2016 the next version of vSphere has been announced by Pat Gelsinger. The new version is called VMware vSphere 6.5 and introduces a lot of new features. As I see it VMware has introduced some long-awaited features: Native High Availability for the vCSA appliance The vSphere Client is HTML5-based VMFS allows for 512 devices and …

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