Partners

HP Converged Infrastructure teamed with Microsoft Hyper-V and applications
Businesses can improve server utilization, decrease implementation time of virtualized IT services, and reduce network and cabling infrastructure costs with new integrated virtualization solutions.

Heterogeneous data center management solutions for virtualized environments
Improved administrator productivity and simplified management are delivered through deep integration of HP’s Insight Software and Business Technology Optimization solutions with Microsoft’s System Center suite.

Virtualization “Smart Bundles” for small-midsize businesses (SMBs)
Simplified purchase, setup and maintenance of a virtualized infrastructure is provided through “Smart Bundles” that combine the required hardware and software components in a single cost-effective package.

Increasing business efficiency by converging and optimizing resources
HP and Microsoft deliver the industry’s most comprehensive solution for managing heterogeneous physical and virtual resources across converged application, hypervisor, server, storage, network, and operating system platforms. Customers can strategically allocate resources to drive business innovation, build upon existing IT investments, speed delivery of IT services through private clouds, and quickly deploy converged infrastructure with Smart Bundles and packaged applications. We enable you to dramatically increase administrator productivity, reduce complexity, and easily scale your entire hardware and software stack, so that you can accelerate time-to-value and respond much faster to changing business needs.

Improving flexibility and reducing costs with choice of industry-standard solutions
Customers can choose from a wide array of mission-critical infrastructure and applications that are based on industry standard processes and skillsets. By eradicating the need for proprietary offerings that result in technology silos, we help you keep costs low and training to a minimum. Our solutions—from client to data center to cloud—are tailored to your needs, with financing options that fit almost any budget. They can reside on premise, off premise, and/or in the cloud, and be delivered a la carte, turnkey or via customized consulting engagements, meeting the needs of a diverse marketplace—from the smallest businesses to the largest corporations and government agencies.

Ensuring success and reducing risk through unparalleled accountability and accessibility
By working with HP, a recognized leader in optimizing virtualized environments, and Microsoft, the fastest-growing virtualization solution provider and world’s largest software company, you can be assured of minimizing risks and maximizing value from your deployments. HP provides single-source accountability and comprehensive lifecycle services and support. And, together, we offer the most extensive reach of any technology provider team—with more than 16,000 Microsoft-certified HP professionals and an ecosystem of 32,000-plus HP-Microsoft Frontline channel partners. This enables customers of all sizes, anywhere in the world, to readily access experts on everything from best practices and reference architecture through design, implementation, and support.

New solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure teamed with Microsoft Hyper-V and applications, businesses can decrease implementation time of multi-tiered IT services from weeks or months to under two hours. They can also decrease unplanned downtime by 77 percent while reducing network and cabling infrastructure costs by 66 percent. These solutions allow customers to achieve a service-based infrastructure that can serve as the foundation for cloud computing.

Heterogeneous data center management solutions improve administrator productivity and simplify management through deep integration of HP’s Insight Software and Business Technology Optimization software portfolio with Microsoft’s System Center suite. Customers can automate the provisioning, monitoring and ongoing maintenance of both virtualized and physical IT services.

Virtualization “Smart Bundles” for small-midsize businesses (SMBs) simplify the purchase, setup and maintenance of a virtualized infrastructure. Smart Bundles, based on HP server, storage, and networking solutions coupled with Microsoft Windows Server and Insight Software make it easy to purchase required hardware, virtualization, and management components in a single cost-effective package. Add Microsoft System Center Essentials and HP Operations Center solutions to unify management of hardware, OS, and applications.

Simplifies the initial deployment, hardware monitoring, power management, and performance optimization of HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem infrastructure through deep integration between HP Insight Software and Microsoft System Center solutions.

Allows customers to achieve the full benefits of virtualization by ensuring that storage is a fully integrated part of the virtual infrastructure. The two companies will enable in-depth management of HP storage within a Microsoft System Center environment. In addition, by using the HP Virtual SAN Appliance for Hyper-V, customers of all sizes will be able to simplify virtualization roll-outs by repurposing direct attached server storage into shared storage resources.

Enables mid-market customers to take control of their server, storage, networking and clients devices as well as OS and applications from a single console by integrating elements of HP ProLiant management, HP Operations Center, and Microsoft System Center Essentials.

Ensure interoperability in heterogeneous data center environments through development of connectors between HP Business Technology Optimization software and Microsoft System Center portfolios.

Drives increased collaboration focused on application models and run books that that facilitate automated provisioning of complex, multi-tiered applications and automate response to changes in performance and availability of underlying hardware infrastructure.

Delivers dynamic management of virtual and physical networks, using a common set of management policies, by delivering support of HP Flex Fabric within Microsoft virtualization and System Center management products.

Enables Private Cloud implementations. HP and Microsoft Services will help customers transform their IT environments into converged, highly automated and secure infrastructures that deliver technology services on-the-fly, by integrating HP expertise in infrastructure and infrastructure management with Microsoft expertise in virtualization and management of Windows, Hyper-V and Microsoft applications.

Managing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with HP Insight Software
HP Insight software enables IT administrators to manage physical servers and virtual servers that are based on heterogeneous virtualization technologies from a single console.

Building an Adaptive Infrastructure with HP Management Tools for Microsoft Hyper-V Environments
Use HP management tools to improve the way you manage your Hyper-V environments.

HP recommended configuration for Exchange Server 2010 and Hyper-V R2: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN (5000 users, 250MB mailboxes)
In this reference configuration the Exchange server roles have been placed on virtual servers using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Hyper-V). The advantage of this solution is that it allows the use of Hyper-V Live Migration for the mailbox servers.

HP recommended configuration for Exchange Server 2010 and Hyper-V R2: StorageWorks EVA8400 using CA-EVA and CLX-EVA (20,000 users, 500MB mailboxes)
In this reference configuration the Exchange server roles have been placed on virtual servers using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Hyper-V). The advantage of this solution is that it allows the use of Hyper-V Live Migration for the mailbox servers.

Live Migration across data centers and disaster tolerant virtualization architecture with HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension and Microsoft Hyper-V
This paper briefly touches upon the Hyper-V and Cluster Extension (CLX) key features, functionality, best practices, and various use cases. It also objectively describes the various scenarios in which Hyper-V and CLX complement each other to achieve the highest level of disaster tolerance. This paper concludes with the step-by-step details for creating a CLX solution in Hyper-V environment from scratch. There are many references also provided for referring to relevant technical details

How to install Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades
This paper describes how to install Hyper-V on HP ProLiant server blades and troubleshoot common problems during the installation process.

How to install Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades
This paper describes how to install Hyper-V on HP ProLiant server blades and troubleshoot common problems during the installation process.

HP Sizing and Configuration Tool for Microsoft Hyper-V
The HP Sizing and Configuration Tool for Microsoft Hyper-V is a downloadable, automated tool that provides a quick and consistent methodology to determine a “best-fit” server configuration for your virtualized Hyper-V environment.

Sizing guide for Microsoft Hyper-V on HP server and storage technologies
This paper discusses a sizing methodology for using processor utilization, memory usage, and network throughput requirements to determine the number of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines that can run on a physical host HP ProLiant server.

Quick sizing guide for Microsoft Hyper-V running on HP ProLiant servers and StorageWorks storage systems
A quick sizing guide for Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant and StorageWorks products. The paper introduces tools, products, and considerations, which can be used to size/build a configuration for your application.

Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers
This paper provides detailed information on HP support of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, including supported servers and options, as well as installation instructions.

How to configure Failover Clustering for Hyper-V hosts on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades with All-in-One SB600c storage blade
This document describes how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering feature using HP BladeSystem c-Class ProLiant server blades and HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c.

HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming
This whitepaper provides a high- and low-level discussion of the technology behind HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming for HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows. HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming is software-based technology used by server administrators and network administrators to increase a server’s network availability and performance.

Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software allows ProLiant systems running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to take advantage of network controller teaming technology. This paper describes, for system administrators and technicians, the method of software installation for implementing network controller teaming and it identifies known issues with teaming and Hyper-V software.

Best practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem environment
Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V dynamic data center scenario in an HP BladeSystem environment using F5 Networks and HP products and tools.

Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers
HP engineers offer a compiled list of Hyper-V "best practices" when deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem servers.

HP ProLiant BL495c server blade reference architecture for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
This paper is a reference architecture guide for Microsoft Hyper-V on HP BladeSystem and ProLiant BL495c blades. It discusses various Hyper-V scenarios and includes utilization of HP LeftHand Networks SAN, HP StorageWorks EVA and HP management tools.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clustering with HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
This document presents a general-purpose architecture designed for the high-availability deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array storage.

HP BladeSystem reference architecture for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
This is a reference architecture for the deployment of Hyper-V, on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure. A bill of materials for the reference architecture is included.

Performance analysis and power savings of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 consolidation on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
This paper describes how a virtualized Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment using Hyper-V provides significant power savings while maintaining high levels of performance.

Considerations Guide for using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit in an HP ProLiant Environment
General reference architectures for the MAP Toolkit when using Hyper-V in an HP ProLiant infrastructure.

Using the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and DL380 G5 servers to virtualize a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm
This paper documents the testing results achieved when using HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and DL380 G5 servers to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using Hyper-V virtualization technology.

Performance characterization of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers and MSA2000 storage
This document focuses on performance characterization testing of disk sub-systems for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, using several HP ProLiant servers with either local storage or an HP StorageWorks 2212fc Modular Smart Array.

Utilizing the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 Server and Hyper-V to virtualize a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment
Deployment of HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server (AMD) using Hyper-V, to virtualize an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm. Presents performance results of a virtualization solution.

Utilizing the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 Server and Hyper-V to virtualize a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment
Deployment of HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server (Intel) using Hyper-V, to virtualize an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm. Presents performance results of a virtualization solution.

TechNet Webcast: Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with WMI and Windows PowerShell
The HP Windows Server 2008 Academy team shares their experience automating the deployment of 600 virtual machines using WMI and Windows PowerShell.

HP & Microsoft Solutions: HP EVA6400/8400 and Microsoft Hyper-V
Dave Roberson, SVP & GM, HP StorageWorks Division, Jim Schwartz and Jeff Woolsey of Microsoft discuss how the HP EVA6400/8400 storage solution delivers best-in-class performance when customers use Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology.

HP virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V
HPs federal comprehensive solution showcase highlights Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Presentation and Application Virtualization.

MLS Property Information Network, Inc.
“In the long term, the HP solution will reduce our annual total cost of ownership for our two data centers by 30 percent easily. That puts our payback at well under two years. We’ve taken a lot of the limits off of traditional IT. We can build and destroy virtual servers at will. And when you consider the easier learning curve and the benefits of having a single point of contact and a uniform way of getting support with HP, it’s pretty compelling.”

Jackson Energy Authority turns to HP LeftHand SANs and Microsoft Hyper-V to run virtually everything
Jackson Energy Authority selected HP LeftHand SANs as the ideal storage solution to complement its virtual infrastructure. HP LeftHand SANs deliver best-in-class features that keep storage networks operating at peak performance.

Microsoft builds new financial reporting Web portal using SQL Server 2008 and HP ProLiant Intel Xeon processor-based server in a virtualized environment
Microsoft uses SQL Server 2008 and HP ProLiant Intel Xeon processor-based server for their new financial reporting system.

Defining the adaptive infrastructure with HP servers and Microsoft® Hyper-V
HP helps MLS Property Information Network implement a scalable, cost-effective server infrastructure, maximizing CPU utilization & reducing physical servers, with ProLiant servers and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Data Center Edition with Hyper-V.

Continental flies higher by saving millions with Microsoft Hyper-V on HP BladeSystem
Continental Airlines standardizes on HP BladeSystem and Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 with Hyper-V to maximize CPU utilization and reduce the number of physical servers required, allowing them to stay in their current data center and avoid millions of dollars in capital investments.

HP Data Center Transformation Services
HP Data Center Transformation services can assist with virtualization strategy, design, transition, acceleration, infrastructure services, virtual desktop infrastructure, and support and education.

HP Software Technology Services for Hyper-V
HP delivers a portfolio of expert services to streamline deployment and installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V software and provides help on how to manage it.

HP Support Matrix for ProLiant Servers
Support matrix showing which HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers are supported with Hyper-V.