Virtual Machine Monitor Reports

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 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

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com explores the top five mistakes made when deploying Hyper-V virtual machines. Learn proper deployment techniques and discover key considerations for a successful implementation of Hyper-V virtual machines in your IT infrastructure.

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

CASE STUDY: Discover how utilizing the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer allows you to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage for proper allocation of resources among all of your vm's. Find out how to use the VKernel Capacity Analyzer and Chargeback virtual appliances to learn who is using what resources and how much it costs.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript features virtualization expert Brian Madden. Learn when and when not to deploy desktop virtualization and gain insight into the two types of client VMs.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 28 Jun 2010

VIDEO: Watch this demonstration for an explanation of the CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 agent for virtual machines. This video offers detailed instructions on how to use the agent for virtual machines, including VMware ESX and Hyper-V technology.

Posted: 28 May 2010 | Premiered: 28 May 2010

EBOOK: Once your hypervisor is installed, what's next? You need to implement virtualization that's actually going to benefit your organization. Read in Chapter Two about how to get the most out of your hardware investment.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource efficiency and simplify storage administration tasks such as problem diagnosis and change management.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 28 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 28 Mar 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of the "Understanding and Managing VM Sprawl" webcast, you'll find out how to mitigate the risks and root causes associated with VM Sprawl - the rapid proliferation of virtual machines without sufficient IT oversight. Also learn best practices for managing the entire virtual machine lifecycle.

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn about a unified approach to IT management. Discover how to decrease complexity introduced by virtualization and cloud computing to ensure optimal performance of your virtual and physical environments.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

JOURNAL ARTICLE: We present a cloud-computing-based architecture that improves the resiliency of the existing solutions anti-malware solutions, and we describe our prototype that is based on existing Intel platforms.

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

CASE STUDY: CyberShift needed visibility into actual resource utilization to continually identify, predict, and resolve memory and storage capacity bottlenecks. Learn how they used VKernel's Capacity Analyzer and Optimization Pack to achieve better monitoring, managing, and optimizing with its VMware infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 2009

DATA SHEET: The Hyper-V Technology Introduction with Advanced Management for Windows Server 2008 is an approximate 10 day service and consists of either a single-node implementation or dual-node highly available (HA) host-based cluster configuration and up to two servers for the System Center elements. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 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

EBOOK: Server sprawl and underutilization problems plague many data centers, with applications being assigned to a server that rarely uses any more than 5% to 10% of its computing capacity. This e-book explains optimizing server virtualization and server management and can help optimize a virtual server deployment.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Feb 2009

EZINE: Data center managers face increasing challenges as virtual machines spread across the enterprise. Automation, monitoring and management tools can offer some much needed relief in the battle to keep control in a virtualized environment. In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to choose the right virtual tools for the job.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

EBOOK: Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: The business case is clear: Virtualization can help you save money, increase IT agility and improve business outcomes. Often, virtualization leads to capital and operational cost savings of 50% or more. Learn more about virtualization with HP and VMware.

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 23 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is paramount to achieving better business outcomes. It can help you deliver applications and business services more quickly, put unused data center capacity to work, and enhance your availability, continuity and security strategies. Read about how HP and VMware can help you gain greater business advantages with virtualization.

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 23 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this document George Crump explains key components in leveraging virtualization at DR site, some of the do's and don'ts, and how to get the most out of that investment.

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: The arrival of VMware virtualization technology and the multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor specifically designed for virtualization helps upgrading the company's core business systems in a limited amount of time.

Posted: 28 Jan 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2009