SAN White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Dell's approach to Exchange 2010 offers many potential benefits for organizations running enterprise class messaging systems. Microsoft introduced new features in Exchange 2010 that can enhance productivity as well as take advantage of Dell's innovative hardware portfolio to provide a more cost-effective infrastructure for enterprise messaging.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 27 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Fujifilm Tape Environment Analysis is the first vendor-agnostic, platform-neutral, comprehensive assessment for tape storage systems. It provides an assessment of the backup environment culminating in a report that includes recommendations to maximize existing resources, avoid unnecessary expenditures and ensure compliance requirements are met.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a high-level look at the features and functionality that make the CX4 an excellent choice for Microsoft Exchange and other electronic mail systems. It examines new features, discusses disaster recovery and VMware integration, and provides a brief example of CX4's performance in Exchange environments.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Using Solid State Disks (SSDs) in enterprise storage arrays is one of today's hottest storage trends. This whitepaper discusses the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment using Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper reviews three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other options. Each of the three architecture strategies presented here provides different trade-offs in cost, complexity and scalability.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 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

WHITE PAPER: As there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting VMs. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP protects the integrity of your data and helps you regain access to it. We have a range of change-ready, cost-effective, and trusted solutions that provide the appropriate level of protection based on your specific business requirements.

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Customers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: One approach being used to reduce complexity and TCO in the data center is the implementation of new management software for blade servers, increasing business value and trimming expenses that vex IT budgets and divert important resources for transformational projects.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009