VMware Reports

WHITE PAPER: As a leader of a SMBs, your expertise lies in improving your business, not the technology that runs it. With virtualization, it’s enough to know that your business can decrease costs, increase IT productivity and protect corporate assets. And VMware is the clear leader in virtualization solutions for SMBs. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

ANALYST BRIEF: Read this solution brief to learn how virtualizing your infrastucture with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series servers and VMware vSphere™ 4 can consolidate resources and improve your total cost of ownership by decreasing management costs and increasing asset utilization.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The combined strength of Dell and VMware® can deliver significant benefits for small, medium, and large organisations across all industries and sectors. Read this paper to learn about the benefits of integrating the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series family together with VMware® vStorage APIs.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The Riverbed® Services Platform provides customers with the ability to run up to 5 additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers offer extraordinary new value for virtualizing SAP solutions. They deliver near-native performance for applications running in virtual machines, while providing levels of reliability and scalability never before seen in industry-standard servers. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

TEST RESULTS: This white paper documents the performance of mission-critical database workloads running on servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

CASE STUDY: Southwestern/Great American chose to swap its dual environment (SAP ERP ran off of a legacy IBM AS/400) for a leaner infrastructure based on VMware ESX and IBM blade servers with Intel Xeon processors that could run both SAP ERP and its Windows applications. Read this case study to learn about the combined VMware and Intel solution.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many IT organizations are interested in virtualizing their business-critical applications but want to be absolutely certain they can deliver the same or better performance, scalability and availability in a virtualized environment. In the vast majority of cases they can. Read this paper to learn about VMware and Intel solutions.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The VMware SMB Survey is designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) understand the benefits their peers are achieving with virtualization. It is also intended to provide SMBs with benchmarks on how their peers are getting the most from their investments in IT infrastructure. Continue reading to find out the results.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

CASE STUDY: Gateway’s back-office IT operations help keep things running smoothly for the company’s customers and employees. As information became more abundant, the time came for them to shift to a virtualized environment. Read this case study to learn how.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn more about EMC backup and recovery solutions for VMware, which combine industry-leading deduplication storage and software to help you fully realize the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 18 Aug 2010

CASE STUDY: Oracle E-Business Suite is critical to 90-95% of EMC’s business functions. The solution VMware® Infrastructure and Intel® Xeon® processor based servers create a reliable and highly available platform for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Read this case study to learn more about the features and business benefits of EMC's new virtual platform.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

EBOOK: In Chapter 6 of the Advanced Virtualization e-book, Mike Laverick outlines some of the benefits that desktop virtualization has over server-based computing models. He also details a few drawbacks of VDI and makes predictions on how the market will respond to further improve desktop virtualization.

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Dell/EMC NS unified storage offers tight integration with VMware® vSphere™ performance, utilization, and recoverability features designed to increase quality of service and efficiency within virtualized environments. Read this Dell Power Solutions article to learn more.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this solution brief to learn how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series' bundled Auto-Snapshot Manager and Auto-Replication features are used to effectively integrate with VMware for scalable online data protection of the complete virtual infrastructure. This paper also discusses protection and simplification for the virtual environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 May 2009

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: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 25 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript of the "Virtualize Tier-1 Apps with No Fear" webcast explains how companies are committing critical workloads to their virtual infrastructures.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 08 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using EMC Data Domain deduplication storage to back up VMs using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) with VMware Infrastructure 3(VI3).

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of a brief demo and video, and learn what VMware High Availability (HA) is, what its requirements are, and how you set it up.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: VMware Data Recovery protects against data loss in your virtual environment by enabling fast backups to disk and, more importantly, fast and complete recovery. Read this transcript of a brief demo and video as Mike Laverick discusses VMware Data Recovery, shows you how to install it, and takes you through the backup and restoration process.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010

TEST RESULTS: This white paper documents the performance of mission-critical database workloads running on servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4.

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010