Tech Tips: VMware vSphere with Operations Management
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This tech guide offers 10 tips for effectively utilizing operations management tools in your VMware environment for advanced health monitoring and performance analytics, enhanced capacity management and optimization and in-depth operations information and root cause analysis.
Posted: 10 May 2013 | Published: 10 May 2013
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Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems: Comparing Costs of IBM PowerVM and x86 VMware for Enterprise Server Virtualization
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This white paper examines the advantages of an integrated, UNIX-based server virtualization platform. Compare the TCO and workload capabilities of this architecture with its popular x86 counterparts to determine a best-suited virtualization approach for your organization.
Posted: 11 Apr 2013 | Published: 11 Apr 2013
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HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and VMware vSphere 5 Best Practices
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Access this comprehensive best practices paper to get a grip on your vSphere 5 environment with 3PAR StoreServ federated tier-1 storage.
Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013
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I’ve Got Hyper-V. Now What? - Volume 1: Implement Better Monitoring
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In this exclusive resource the events and performance metrics that are critical to the performance and availability of Hyper-V environments are discussed. Continue on to learn how to monitor them and ensure success for your organization.
Posted: 16 Jan 2013 | Published: 16 Jan 2013
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5 Misperceptions of Agentless VM Backup
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Check out this brief paper for George Crump's take on the real deal behind anti-agent sentiment and the agentless approach to modern backup solutions.
Posted: 06 Dec 2012 | Published: 06 Dec 2012
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Assessing VMware View's Full Value
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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Many enterprises utilize virtualization to support desktop workloads, improve data security, enable thin clients, and simplify data backup. However, there are challenges and obstacles associated with desktop virtualization that can hinder these benefits. Learn the necessary steps to avoid and overcome these common challenges.
Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2009
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The Expert Guide to VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
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This white paper looks at traditional backup and recovery methods and why they do not work well in virtual environments, as well as the new backup and recovery methods that were developed specifically for virtualization.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011
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Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise: Building and Running Spring Applications on VMware vFabric tc Server
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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Lean software development and deployment should figure prominently in every organization’s IT strategy. The growing pervasiveness of virtual and cloud environments makes the need even more urgent. Read this paper to learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lean, lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move.
Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012
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Manchester Essex Regional School District: Virtualization helps a Massachusetts school district deliver better education while reducing costs, IT staff burdens and environmental impact
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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The Manchester Essex Regional School District was looking to build a new school for its 8500 student body, tasking the IT department with finding the most effective way to help build and manage an energy-efficient IT infrastructure. This white paper highlights how VMware data center virtualization and other software helped them achieve their goals.
Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011
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VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View™ environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 VM.
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011
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50,000-Seat VMware View Deployment
sponsored by VMware and NetApp
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Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.
Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011
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Executive Brief on VMware Backup and Recovery: Challenges and Solutions
sponsored by Veeam Software
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This paper explains the challenges of a traditional backup and recovery system - especially when it comes to backing up VMware. In this paper you will also learn what this author believes to be the solution to these challenges.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011
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Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
sponsored by Google Apps
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Content provided by Google. This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery.
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011
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RIM BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Virtual Infrastructure
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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VMware and RIM have worked together over the past two-plus years to provide official support of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) solutions on VMware virtual infrastructure. In this white paper, learn about the best practices for running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Infrastructure 3 or VMware vSphere™ 4.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010
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VMware vSphere 4: The Most Efficient SQL Server Consolidation Platform
sponsored by VMware and Intel
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Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010
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Oracle Databases on Vmware: Use Cases
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This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere, including best practice tips for storage, networking and performance.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware: Use Cases
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
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This paper provides use cases and primary technical benefits that can be achieved by deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010
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3 Options for VMware Disaster Recovery and CDP
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Continuous data protection (or CDP) has been used by large enterprises for sometime for disaster recovery and to achieve the highest level of business continuity. Read this whitepaper to find out the 5 things you need to know about CDP and 3 options for VMware disaster recovery.
Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 16 Aug 2010
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Virtualize Microsoft SQL Server For Improved Performance With PowerEdge 11th Generation
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft SQL
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This white paper describes the benefits and performance of the latest Dell PowerEdge R810 running Microsoft SQL Server in VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 12 Jul 2010
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Running VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
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This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.
Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010
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EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions for VMware: Customer Success Profiles
sponsored by EMC Corporation
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The customers in this compilation all share one common story: They turned to EMC solutions to address the backup and recovery challenges they faced while implementing a virtualised server environment.
Posted: 22 Apr 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010
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Data Protection in a Hyper-V Environment
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment.
Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010
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HP LeftHand SAN technology: enabling effective VMware deployments
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper describes how HP LeftHand SANs can help you deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) software more effectively through volume snapshots, SmartClone volumes, volume migration, and high-availability features.
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010
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Business Ready Solutions for Virtual Infrastructure Availability Using Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers, Dell Powervault™ Storage, and VMware vSphere™
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
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This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.
Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009
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VMware vSphere v4 Best Practices for Emprise 7000
sponsored by Xiotech Corporation
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This document provides valuable insight on determining the number and size of datastores, planning the storage environment, and tuning performance of the Emprise 7000 system.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009
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