He who dies with the most toys wins! – Garfield
September 3rd, 2009 by 
Steven J. Schwartz
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Couldn’t make it to VMWorld this year for various reasons, but I have been eagerly listening in to all the chatter, social networking, and general fun being spewed across the internet. There have been funny cartoons, funny videos, blogs, tweets, Facebook updates, etc. The updates and news coverage is pretty great, but there has been one vendor’s daily updates that of course are self serving, which they should be, but are a brag about something 100% in their control.
Not trying to launch a war here, but twitter man @HPStorageGuy, (who you should follow because he has some good thoughts when not bragging about LeftHand’s VSA) Calvin Zito has been busy tweeting these past few days. Typically he talks up the LeftHand Networks, now owned by HP, iSCSI storage solutions and other HP storage products. Recently, Calvin has been bragging about how HP has the most VMWare HCL certified storage systems, server systems, and the ONLY virtual storage appliance that is certified. Not sure everyone knows, but getting on VMWare’s HCL is an easy, but expensive task. So, considering that all it takes is money and a little time, why brag about something like this? Regardless, Congratulations!!! Also, Congratulations to RedHat for having the most certified OSs!!!
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September 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Hey Steven(edited for name spelling) – boy was VMworld fun! Thank for using your blog to mention what I’m doing.
I wanted to clarify one point – I have been talking a lot about Virtual SAN Appliance because there were several tweets suggesting that other vendors also were doing the same thing. The “thing” VSA does is a software based virtual SAN, using drives that are in the ESX host or connected as direct attach. The point I was making (and having a hard time doing in 140 characters) was that HP LeftHand VSA is the only VMware certified virtual SAN solution. None of the other vendors who have a virtual SAN software product are on the HCL with their software. The confusion was coming because those vendors are on the HCL with a hardware based array.
Thanks again for checking out my blog. If any of your readers want to follow me on Twitter, here’s a link: http://twitter.com/HPstorageGuy.