Today, we started to remove our last Cisco HW from our lab! Well not for long, as we will still use it to troubleshoot some interoperability between Sophos UTM-9 and Cisco implementations, but I must say that our UTM-9 does offer so much more that that ugly Cisco box and the cherry on top of the cake is that we can run it virtualized or on one of our HP Servers!
I would like to congratulate our internal colleagues responsible for the Microsoft Business Development as we have just achieved Gold Distribution status.
Our Lab (Hardware)
1x HP ProLiant DL380G8p
2x HP ProLiant DL380G7
3x HP ProLiant DL380G5
2x HP ProLiant DL320g6
2x HP Lefthand P4500
1x HP StoreServ 7200 (SAS & SATA w/ Dual Controller)
1x HP StoreOnce D2Di
2x HP SAN Switches
1x HP 5308xl Switch (Core)
2x HP 3800 Switches (iSCSI Switches)
1x HP 2810 Switch (Management Switch)
1x HP 2524 Switch (iLO Switch)
A massive lab and a lot of planning on it for our customers/resellers.
Feel free to contact your Account Executive to learn on how you can benefit from our lab.
Tomorrow we will start again with the HP #StoreVirtual and vCenter vSRM setup as we decided to start from scratch once again to have a clean environment.
As well tomorrow we will be finalizing the setup of DP 7.x with StoreOnce SW Gateways and StoreOnce Appliances, with integration with vSphere.
We are also implementing a Load Balancer to enhance our upcoming exchange setup and web-servers and we will be adding on to our UTM-9 as well the endpoint protection.
Picture 1 - illustrates our VPN HTML5 Connection (Sophos UTM-9 on ProLiant)
Picture 2 - illustrates our current setup (partial) / vCenter & Infra Apps running over iSCSI (Windows Gateway) from our 3PAR StorServ 7200
Picture 3 - Illustrates our HP StoreServ serving our VMware Cluster with VMs
We will now be kicking in Adaptive Optimization to have the StoreOnce Gateways and Fileservers storing their cold data on our SATA group and the OS and Applications running on the SAS Tier - Obviously all running with full autonomy.
Later on the setup we will be implementing as well:
- Peer Motion between #StoreVirtual & #VSA
- Virtual Desktops (W2012 RDS & VMware View) & HP Thin Clients
- BOYD with HP ElitePads & Sophos MDM
- Full Sophos UTM-9
- Hyper-V Cluster with SC2012
- Data Protector 7.x
- MS SQL on 3PAR
- Exchange 2013 on Hyper-V & VMware (Hybrid Environment - Single Setup)
- Hyper-V Replication
- VMware SRM
We are open to configuration suggestions BUT all the HW Platform will be HP and only HP :-)
Feel free to contact us, should you wish to have remote access and to discuss.
Will keep you posted
Regards,
Nuno Fernandes | IT Architect | @nmiguelrf | www.systec.com.mt/enterprise
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