VMware White Papers

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: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 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: 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: With so many new technologies, sticking with the status quo for your virtual network infrastructure is probably not your best option. In this month's issue, take a closer look at all the possibilities available now for interconnecting both virtual and physical networks.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper documents the procedure for failback from a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery site after SRM has performed a failover on an HP LeftHand SAN. This document is intended for customers who are using an HP LeftHand SAN with VMware.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 05 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Wipro Technologies focuses on the methodology EMC follows for building its Proven Solutions for organizations of all sizes and domains. This paper also demonstrates the methodology using an example of the solution development process for Microsoft Exchange in physical and VMware environments.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware® vSphere™ is the industry's first private cloud operating system that provides a comprehensive framework from which Dell can help deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to clients.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 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: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 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: This paper examines the impact of application virtualization technology on overall system performance. It documents a simple performance evaluation of application virtualization using AppZero virtual application appliance (VAA) compared to a VMware ESXbased system using virtual machines (VM).

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations worldwide are leveraging the benefits of virtualization to create flexible IT environments that reduce costs and improve business agility. These are among the many benefits of shifting to solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Learn how your organization can benefit from complete virtualization solutions from HP, Intel and VMware.

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2008

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

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups.

Posted: 30 Jan 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

WHITE PAPER: By "going green" with energy-efficient IBM® System x™ servers featuring Intel® Xeon® processors, you can win back control of your IT budget--and win the battle with data center power constraints.

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have you extended your virtual infrastructure to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization? This white paper serves as an in-depth, step-by-step guide to successful storage virtualization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document describes the virtual machine conversion functions built into Oracle VM in Release 2.1.2, and how you can plan and execute the virtual machine conversions using Oracle VM.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Find out how a VMware healthcare customer used VMware View, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

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: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008