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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Although that estimate is set to grow to some 50 per cent of workloads by 2012, it still paints a picture of the reality of virtualisation being well behind the 'must-have' technology image portrayed by vendors such as IBM, Microsoft and... [20 Nov 2009]
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation
White Paper When combined with VMware Infrastructure software, Sun provides a solution for Windows server consolidation that leverages the simplicity of NFS (Network File System) and the extensive features of Sun Storage 7000... [12 Nov 2009]
Virtualize for the Most Value With VMware and an EMC Information Infrastructure
White Paper Early adopters of virtualization are experiencing first-hand the real advantages that VMware technologies bring to their IT environments. These successes have led to a growing interest in strategically leveraging... [12 Nov 2009]
Optimized VMware Backup and Recovery With EMC Avamar and EMC CLARiiON Replication Technology
White Paper This test suite covers the integration of VMware with EMC Avamar, EMC Replication Manager, and an EMC CLARiiON array. There are many ways to back up VMware within enterprise environments. This paper... [12 Nov 2009]
SQL Server Workload Consolidation: VMware ESX 3.5
White Paper Database workloads are very diverse. While most database servers are lightly loaded, larger database workloads can be resource-intensive, exhibiting high I/O rates or consuming large amounts of memory. [12 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could run 10... [12 Nov 2009]
Virtual Server-SAN Connectivity: Why Blade Server Virtualization and Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity Are Rapidly Being Adopted
White Paper NPIV-capable drivers for Windows, Linux and VMware have been demonstrated and are now in the final stages of productization. Emulex is currently the only vendor offering NPIV support in its HBAs, both traditional and... [12 Nov 2009]
Optimizing VMware View VDI Deployments With F5
White Paper Corporate desktop usage and management has long been a necessary evil for IT groups. Most employees need full desktops and there are usually multiple types of desktops required for different business units: XP for accounting, Mac for... [11 Nov 2009]
VMware Training
White Paper VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing.vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS,... [03 Nov 2009]
What's New in VMware vSphere 4: Virtual Networking
White Paper VMware vSphere introduces a number of new features and capabilities to virtual networking under VMware® vNetwork.vNetwork is the new name to describe the collection of networking technologies for optimally integrating... [03 Nov 2009]
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Performance on VMware vSphere 4
White Paper Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the... [03 Nov 2009]
Building a Home Lab Environment for Cisco Unified Communications
White Paper It will also cover the configuration options of VMWare so you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment. An IP Telephony home lab setup will allow you to test new versions of... [03 Nov 2009]
vSphere: New Features and Benefits
White Paper VMware has made major improvements to the VI3 suite of products and released a new and exciting offering called vSphere. Virtualization of servers is one of the hottest topics in today's IT environment. [03 Nov 2009]
Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware
White Paper Over the years of the VMware alliance, Intel has received many requests for small changes in CPU circuitry.changes that would make virtualizing the CPU easier, more efficient, or add capability. As Intel started to... [02 Nov 2009]
Free Software Trial Finds VMware Problems and Optimizes the Data Center
White Paper Inexpensive and easy-to-use, the patent-pending VKernel Capacity Analyzer delivers proactive resource monitoring and predictive capacity analysis capabilities that enhance VMware vCenter (VirtualCenter). [30 Oct 2009]