Just a quick post to share an informative HP best practices paper about running VMware ESX 3.5 on C-Class Blades, MSA 2000 as storage and of course HP’s own networking virtualization technology, Virtual Connect.

In my opinion this is quite a nice combination of products (though  my preference would be an HP EVA 4400 for entry level storage – if the budget will stretch just that little bit further). 

This paper makes for an interesting read and can be found here.

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