WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the top ten best practices one wants to consider when embarking on a server virtualization project.
Posted: October 6, 2008 | Published: October 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | LAN | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization.
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Security | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes several approaches that can be used to back up VMware ESX Server 3.x and its underlying components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI).
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VMware Consolidated Backup allows you to mount & view VM filesystems on a proxy server and back them up.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | NAS | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the business continuance definition, RTOs, RPOs, important data protection options to meet SLAs, and best practices and experiences in real BC/DR testing.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Continuity Planning | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Software

WHITE PAPER - VMware server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Network Management | Networking | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This virtualization benchmarking study examined server performance, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and scalability for a variety of deployment scenarios.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | LAN | Network Management Services | Network Performance | Processor Architectures | SAN | Server Virtualization | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read how the X-Architecture blueprint takes a comprehensive approach - innovative hardware, software and services - to solve customer challenges through an evolving design approach to System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex servers.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Enterprise | Network Management Services | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | System x | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This document targets on four areas like disk, network, backup & DR, and, storage management software.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  MAID | RAID | Server Virtualization | Software | Tiered Storage | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper begins with an introduction to quick migration and the Hyper-V technology and then describes how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DHCP | Network Management | RAM | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VLAN

WHITE PAPER - One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure environment. This white paper provides administrators with the starting place for designing security into the App-V infrastructure.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Networking | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This document examines many of the obstacles of server virtualization and provides solutions to avoid or overcome them.
Posted: September 30, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | iSCSI | NAS | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This document explains the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility.
Posted: September 30, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Recovery | Network Appliances | Regulatory Compliance | Server Virtualization | Storage Devices | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments. Discover how Dell can provide tailored solutions for your organization.
Posted: September 30, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | SAN | Server Virtualization | SQL | Storage Resource Management | VMware