HP resources for VMware

The reason for this post is trying to be a single point of reference for HP related VMware resources.

I created the list for my personal use while ago but in the hope that it can be useful for someone else I decided to review and share it. I will try to keep the list up to date and also add it as a permanent page in the menu above.

General resources

• HP virtualization with VMware - This is the main page about VMware in the HP site. It has dozens of links to White Papers, webinars, podcasts and other HP sites about VMware.
• HP and VMware Virtualization Alliance - The HP-VMware Alliance page in the VMware site. It has several areas that outline the different HP-VMware joint solutions.
• VMware Enterprise Library at HP – Case studies, White Papers and Datasheets.
• HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server
• HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with VMware
• HP VirtualSystem for VMware - Main portal of HP VirtualSystem solution
• HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware
• HP VirtualSystem VS2 for VMware
• HP VirtualSystem VS3 for VMware
• HP Software Releases & Media- Information about VMware products OEM licensing from HP
• VMware vSphere from HP QuickSpecs
• HP VMware Transition Matrix
• December 2012 VMware SmartComponents for Insight Control for vCenter

VMware on ProLiant

• ProLiant server VMware support matrix - This page is the Rosetta Stone for every VMware installation on HP hardware. It has every HP Proliant Blade/Server cross-referenced in a table with every ESX/ESXi version from the 2.1 to the 4.1. The vSphere tab it also has a column about VMware FT support.
• VMware demos in HP hardware – This site has a few interesting videos demoing VMware products in HP hardware.
• HP ESX 4.x images for the G7 ProLiant Blades.
• HP ESXi 4.x customized images
• HP sizing tool for Vmware vSphere
• HP Management Agents for ESX 4.x
• HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 and VMware vSphere 4.0
• Cisco Nexus 1000V on HP BladeSystem
• Virtual Connect FlexFabric Cookbook - One the famous Virtual Connect cookbooks, contains a lot of ‘recipes’ with examples using VMware vSphere.
• HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric and VMware vSphere 4
• HP Virtual Connect FelxFabric Solution Recipe - With links to the firmware and driver downloads for ESX(i) 4.1
• HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 NICs Solution Recipe
• Deploying a VMware vSphere HA Cluster with HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric
• Using HP Virtual Connect on HP BladeSystem c-Class with VMware Infrastructure 3.5
• Driver Versions in HP supplied VMware ESX/ESXi images
• HP BladeSystem Matrix How-To Guide: ESX Host Provisioning
• June 2012 VMware FW and Software Recipe
• September 2012 VMware FW and Software Recipe
• October 2012 VMware FW and Software Recipe
• February 2013 VMware FW and Software Recipe
• HP Remote System Management for VMware
• HP ESXi 5.0 customized images
• HP ESXi 5.0U1 customized ISO
• HP ESXi 5.0U2 customized ISO
• HP ESXi 5.1 customized ISO
• HP custom ESXi images for ProLiant servers - Technology brief, 2nd Ed.
• HP Vibsdepot - Software repository by HP with bundles compatible with VMware Image Builder,esxcli and VMware Update Manager
• Deploying and updating VMware vSphere 5.0 on HP ProLiant servers - Integration note 3rd Edition
• Upgrading VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESX in an HP Insight Dynamics 4.1 or 6.0 environment
• HP VMware ESXi management environment
• HP VMware Utilities User Guide VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 for October 2012
• HP VMware Utilities User Guide VMware vSphere 5.1 for October 2012
• HP VMware ESXi 4.0 and Updates Getting Started Guide
• HP VMware ESXi 4.1 and Updates Getting Started Guide
• HP VMware ESXi and vSphere 5.X and Updates Getting Started Guide
• HP VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 and Updates Getting Started Guide for June 2012
• HP VMware Utilities User Guide VMware ESXi 5.0 for March 2012
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for ESXi 5.0 U1 October 2012 - SNMP Data Migration - V1.2
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMware vSphere 5.1 October 2012 - SNMP Data Migration - V1.2
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 - Oct 2012 Datasheets
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.0 U2 - Feb 2013 Datasheets
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware vSphere 5.1 - Feb 2013 Datasheets
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 - Oct 2012 Profiles
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.0 U2 - Feb 2013 Profiles
• HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.1 - Feb 2013 Profiles
• HP ProLiant and Integrity Firmware Management Best Practices Implementer Guide

HP Storage

• VMware Storage Solutions from HP – Includes the ESX/ESXi 3.x and 4.x support matrices for HP Storage systems.
• Running VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions – Excellent White Paper, a must for every VMware-Lefthand infrastructure.
• Configuration best practices for HP Enterprise Virtual Array family VMware vSphere 4 and 4.1
• Best practices for VMware ESX 3.5, using c-Class Blades, EVA and Virtual Connect
• Best Practices for VMware ESX 3.5 using c-Class Blades, MSA2000, and Virtual Connect
• HP XP24000 and vSphere 4 best practices
• VMware vCenter Plug-in for HP StorageWorks Arrays – Great video by Calvin Zito (@HPStorareGuy)
• HP P4000 VAAI demo - Video of the demo showed at VMworld 2010 San Francisco.
• HP Storage drivers – Including the virtualization adapters for VMware SRM for EVA, XP and P4000 systems
• HP P4000 VSA – Product page of my beloved VSA :-)
• HP P6000 EVA Arrays with HP BladeSystem and VMware vSphere
• HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array for VMware
• HP Storage P9000 Configuration Guide - P9500 Disk Array - Includes a section for VMware vSphere.
• VMware podcast recap - Recopilation of all the podcasts recorded about the new vSphere 5.0 and HP storage by my HP fellow vExpert Calvin Zito (@HPStorageGuy)
• P4000 SRA for VMware SRM User Guide
• HP P2000 Software Plug-in for VMware VAAI
• HP P2000 Software Plug-in for VMware VAAI vSphere 4.1 - Software Download
• HP P2000 Software Plug-in for VMware VAAI vSphere 5.0 - Software Download
• Configuration best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 4.1 on the HP P2000 G3 MSA Array combo controller
• Complete storage and data protection architecture for VMware vSphere
• Optimizing VMware protection with HP and Veeam
• Backup and recovery best practices for the HP EVA array in a VMware environment using HP Data Protector
• HP 3PAR Management Software Plug-In for VMware VAAI
• HP 3PAR Management Software Plug-In for VMware vCenter
• HP 3cV Virtual Utility Computing with HP 3PAR, HP BladeSystem and VMware vSphere
• HP 3PAR Storage Systems for VMware
• VMware vSphere with HP 3PAR Utility Storage
• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere
• HP Lefthand Storage with VMware vSphere: Design considerations and best practices 
• HP 3PAR VMware ESX Implementation Guide
• HP 3PAR Replication Adapter 4.0.1 for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.1 Implementation Guide
• HP 3PAR Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Implementation Guide
• HP 3PAR Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Implementation Guide
• Best practices for the HP P6000 EVA Array using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
• Achieve mission-critical standards of data availability - HP StoreVirtual Storage - HP StoreVirtual white paper including info about VMSC
• Best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 5 with VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance on HP LeftHand Multi-Site SAN cluster
• Implementing VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with HP LeftHand Multi-Site storage
• Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange 2010 with HP StoreVirtual 4500 G2 and VMware vSphere 5.0
• Reduce resource and storage bandwidth consumption—simply and significantly - VMware vSphereVAAI for HP 3PAR Storage performance benefits
• HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and VMware vSphere 5 best practices
• HP 3PAR Management Plug-in and Recovery Manager 2.4.0 Software for VMware vSphere User Guide
• HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage for Microsoft SQL Server environments with VMware
• Implementing HP 3PARCluster Extension for Windows in a VMware Virtual Machine

VDI

• HP Client Virtualization – HP main site about VDI, not exclusively about VMware but very intersting.
• HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View – HP VDI solution with VMware View main site.
• HP Reference Architecture for VMware View with HP StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem SAN
• HP reference configuration for BladeSystem: BL495c with Flex-10 and VMware View
• HP 3PAR storage technologies for desktop virtualization
• HP Client Virtualization Reference Architecture for HP VirtualSystem
• HP Converged Infrastructure Reference Architecture for VMware View
• HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View
• HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View Datasheet
• HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View Solution Brief
• HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View product tour

vCloud Director

• HP Cloud Map with BladeSystem Matrix for VMware vCloud Director – A demo showing what can be done by combining the HP Matrix and the awesome vCloud Director.
• Implementing the HP Cloud Map for VMware vCloud Director
• HP Cloud Maps for VMware

Blog posts

This section includes posts from several bloggers about VMware and HP.

• BIOS settings in a VMware ESX(i)/vSphere Environment - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX #040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX #040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Using Lefthand Snapshot techniques within a VMware Environment - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX #040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Creating easy to identify Lefthand Volumes on ESX/vSphere - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX #040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Testing Scenario’s VMware/HP c-Class Infrastructure - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX#040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Lefthand SAN - Lessons Learned - By Frank Denneman VCDX #029 (@frankdenneman)
• Flex-10 Lessons Learned - By Frank Denneman VCDX #029 (@frankdenneman)
• Maching an HP FlexNIC in ESXi to Chassis Flex-10 Bay and Port Number at Install Time - By Simon Gallagher (@vinf_net)
• 8 Node ESXi Cluster running 60 virtual machines - All running from a 500GBP Physical Server - By Simon Gallagher (@vinf_net)
• HP Virtual Connect Flex-10  and vSphere - By Barry Coombs (@VirtualisedReal)
• ESX 4.1 Breaks HP Flex10 Smart Link - Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• Flex-10 ESX Prerequisites - Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• How to Integrate VMware Vsphere 4 with Multiple HP C7000s using HP Flex-10 (Active/Active) with HP Virtual Connect - Part 1 - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• How to Integrate VMware Vsphere 4 with Multiple HP C7000s using HP Flex-10 (Active/Active) with HP Virtual Connect - Part 2 - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• How to Integrate VMware Vsphere 4 with Multiple HP C7000s using HP Flex-10 (Active/Active) with HP Virtual Connect - Part 3 - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• Three Requirements for HP Flex-10 and Virtual Connect with VMware Vsphere 4 - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• VMware Vsphere 4.1 and Flex 10 Advisory Smartlink Issues Again - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• Rethinking Network Design with FlexFabric and vSphere 4.1 - Jeffrey Wolfanger
• Running VMware vSphere on an HP MicroServer - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• Using Jumbo Frames on an HP ProLiant ML115 G5 - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death on HP ML110 or ML115 - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• Installing and Running VMware vSphere (ESX 4.0) on your lab HP ProLiant ML110 or ML115 - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• Can you run VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) on an HP ProLiant ML110 or ML115? - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• VMware ESX - Removal of HP Agents and Utilities After Migration - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• VMware P2V - Easy Method to Remove HP Agents and Utilities - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• VMware ESXi 4.o Update 1 (U1) Fixes SATA CD/DVD-ROM Issue with HP ProLiant ML115 G5 - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Released - Still a worthy virtualization work or home lab server? - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• VMware ESX - “Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state if the host has HP Insight Management Agents running” - Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si)
• Recommended BIOS Settings on HP ProLiant DL580 G7 for VMware vSphere - Sammy Bogaert
• Check HP Management Agents with PowerCLI - Sammy Bogaert
• VMware ESXi 4 and HP Servers - Rick Scherer VCDX #020 (@rick_vmwaretips)
• Advisory - ESX 4.1 + HP Flex-10 + Broadcom bnx2x = Bad News - Rick Scherer VCDX #020 (@rick_vmwaretips)
• Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 - Justin Paul (@recklessop)
• How vSphere 4.1 Network I/O Control changed the way we use HP Flex-10 - Stefan Jagger (@StefanJagger)
• Flex-10 ESX design with simplicity and scalability: Part 1 - Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• Flex-10 ESX design with simplicity and scalability: Part 2 - Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• HP MSA, Channel Enclosure Svc Dev, LUN0 and Mask Path - Didier Pironet (@dpironet)
• Flex-10 ESX pre-requisites - Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• HP joins the FlexPod and Vblock party with HP VirtualSystem -  Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• HP Blade & Virtual Connect Firmware and Nic drivers for vSphere 5 -  Julian Wood (@julian_wood)
• HP ESXi Hosts continually disconnect from vCenter -  Justin Paul (@recklessop)
• HP P2000 G3 - Upgrading to get VAAI Support -  Justin Paul (@recklessop)
• VMware NMP errors and LUN dropping with HP EVA SANs -  Jeffrey Wolfanger
• HP’s answer to Vblock - Meet the HP VirtualSystem for VMware - Justin Vashisht (@3cVguy)
• vSphere VSA vs HP P4000 VSA -  Justin Vashisht (@3cVguy)
• Enable VASA on HP P4000 Lefthand SAN with vSphere 5 - Sammy Bogaert
• Bug in HP Agents 8.70 causes HP DL580 G7 running ESX to reboot on PSU failure [SOLVED] - Sammy Bogaert
• Understanding HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Mappings with VMware vSphere - By Kenneth van Ditmarsch VCDX #040 (@VirtualKenneth)
• Add HP drivers to VMware Update Manager (VUM) - By Rodrigo Sampaio
• VMware & HP 3PAR – RDM disks and HP 3PAR snapshot - By Shahidul Alam
• HP Firmware version with PowerCLI - Akos Batorfi