VMware White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere, including best practice tips for storage, networking and performance.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides use cases and primary technical benefits that can be achieved by deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes components of the VMware vSphere and VMware View solutions and discusses options for protecting these environments using EMC® Avamar® with global source-based data deduplication.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 21 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a description of 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: 23 Apr 2010

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 paper addresses usage and configuration of F5 Network's BIG-IP© Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) in combination with VMware's View 3.0 solution on Dell servers and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

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: Dell Virtualization Solutions with VMware provide the most efficient virtual infrastructure foundation to power vSphere 4 cloud infrastructures. Read this paper to learn more about the features and business benefits of Dell and VMware solutions for your cloud computing infrastructure.

Posted: 14 May 2010 | Published: 13 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 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: 10 May 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

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: 10 May 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel conducted tests on Web servers serving encypted data to quantify the benefits of AES-NI and found that AES-NI reduced computational overhead of encyrption by 50 percent. Continue reading this paper to learn more about the tests and results.

Posted: 10 May 2010 | Published: 04 May 2010