VMware White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 07 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how VMware View 4 and virtual desktop storage options from NetApp deliver flexible, cost effective, secure virtual desktops. Enterprises can now deploy cost effective virtual desktop environments (over LAN or WAN) that meet the needs of a wide range of end users.

Posted: 06 May 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming more popular among ArcGIS customers as well. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, QA and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This paper provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some common questions regarding ArcGIS Server and virtualization.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The value of data center virtualization continues to grow. This white paper discusses the features and benefits of the Intel Xeon 7500 series processor combined with Dell PowerEdge servers and VMware® vSphere™.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

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: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Customers running a VMware View environment don’t just want secure access for virtual desktop sessions, they want convenience as well. With this in mind, Juniper Networks extend the security deployment by brokering connections to virtual machines and providing single sign-on (SSO) when users access their assigned virtual desktops.

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 | Published: 15 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: The report examines a side-by-side comparison of VMware View 4 and Citrix XenDesktop. While the desktop virtualization landscape may appear to be crowded with options, customers can have confidence in their choice with VMware® View, because it’s the only end-to-end integrated solution built for delivering desktops as a managed service.

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 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: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 Feb 2010

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: Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment.

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 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 white paper describes how HP LeftHand SANs can help you deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) software more effectively through volume snapshots, SmartClone volumes, volume migration, and high-availability features.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the emergence of standards-based architectures, virtualization, and ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, cloud computing technology is primed to form the basis for a new, highly efficient enterprise IT infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 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: Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 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: This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 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: Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007