VMware Server Reports

ANALYST REPORT: This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Because data centers everywhere are being challenged to meet increasing business and IT demands with shrinking budgets, they are turning to server virtualization technologies, such as VMware, to optimize operational efficiencies throughout the data center.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: 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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: To help address the challenges of enterprise desktop management, VMware and Dell have created a scalable VMware View reference design based on VMware Infrastructure 3, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

CASE STUDY: Lakeview Medical Center needed to optimize their IT environment to combat data center infrastructure challenges. CDW helped them put VMware to work consolidating their servers and providing a more efficient environment. Read this quick case study to learn how they reduced backup times, improved response times, and reduced cost of ownership.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In recent months, IT companies have been talking about putting a bare-metal hypervisor on a laptop. In this presentation transcript, independent industry expert, Brian Madden, takes a step back and discusses why you would want to put a hypervisor on a laptop. Learn about the real-world benefits and what's just hype.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008