Server Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Read this article to learn how Dell has developed adaptive power management and worked with VMware to develop ways to autonomically and proactively power-down underutilized systems during off-peak times.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Trend Micro server and application protection addresses the challenging operational security and compliance needs of today’s dynamic datacenter. We provide comprehensive protection, greater operational efficiency, superior platform support, and tighter integration with existing investments. Read this paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper by Global Knowledge instructor, John Hales, to learn how to build a home lab for VMware vSphere for study. This paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the second is about the Workstation configuration, and the third is about installing vSphere and Virtual Center.

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Feb 2010

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: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 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

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn how to manage Windows Server 2008 R2.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how your organization can achieve significant cost savings by conducting data migrations while applications are running rather than scheduling down time.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 07 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

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: The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Increasing energy efficiency with x86 servers. Robert Frances Group (RFG) explains why Intel/IBM is a winning combination.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 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

WHITE PAPER: This paper will give an overview of the best servers for virtualization.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates the value of a Xeon 7400 Dunnington system, the Dell IT group has virtualized more than 5,000 servers and saved the company over US$29 million using a scalable, worldwide virtualization model.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are deploying virtualization for the first time or looking to increase the value of your existing solution, choosing the right hardware is as important as choosing the right virtualization software. This paper will discuss some of the basics of server virtualization.

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009