SAN and Virtualization Reports

EGUIDE: This expert SearchStorage.com E-Guide points out red flags of SAN management problems-to-come so you can catch them before they manifest in your virtual environment. Check it out to learn how your peers are responding to these pain points.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 | Published: 17 Dec 2012

VIDEO: Watch this video to learn how one vendor's storage virtualization solution gives you access to all of your resources from a single interface, significantly simplifies management and reduces the overall costs of your IT environment.

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Premiered: 16 Apr 2013

VIDEO: This short clip reveals the use of IBMs XIV storage system and how it cost effectively provides robust SAP services to customers at blazing speeds.

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Premiered: 30 Jan 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this expert presentation transcript from SearchVirtualStorage.com, Howard Marks, chief scientist and founder of DeepStorage.net, discusses VMware SAN configuration issues that could cause problems in your virtualized environment.

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Published: 20 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: This guide provides an overview of the specific reasons customers choose to deploy Microsoft applications with VMware vSphere Essentials on EMC's VNXe storage solution.

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: If you're a small to medium-sized business, you need your storage platform to be manageable by a small IT staff and fit within your budget. This expert E-Guide provides a detailed tutorial to help you navigate the virtual storage marketplace and select the best architecture for you.

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 | Published: 23 Jan 2013

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide outlines best practices for building a cost-effective database infrastructure on SANs and how to ensure uptime in these Oracle, SAN environments. Read on to learn what it takes to deploy a scalable, efficient and cost-controlled database infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 | Published: 11 May 2011

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Having trouble with storage latency issues? SolarWinds® Storage Response Time Monitor free tool tracks those sluggish VMs, shows the top host to datastore total response times and a count of additional high latency offenders.

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 | Premiered: 03 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This short white paper explores the 4 key capabilities your organization needs to meet today's storage requirements, and how to seamlessly acquire them. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, combined with powerful management software from IBM Tivoli, provides an ideal complement to VMware vSphere deployments by providing a highly virtualized storage infrastructure designed to meet the specific needs of virtual server environments. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore how an advanced, host-based storage fabric solution can provide the highly scalable and available storage necessary to support Hyper-V private cloud or VDI deployments.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how your organization can overcome many VDI storage-related challenges and maximize the return on your desktop virtualization project by leveraging shared storage. Explore the advantages this storage approach offers virtualized environments, and learn how you can easily enable shared storage.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Storage can cause many problems for VDI. Brian Madden discusses these challenges and also explores one potential solution - a primary storage appliance - and evaluates how it performs in this expert presentation transcript.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides insight into the key differences between virtualizing network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) architectures. Read on to discover which storage virtualization choice is right for your organization.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 26 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights several new features within EMC® Avamar® 6.0 that specifically target and greatly advance the capabilities and performance of VMware® data protection.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of deduplication in VMware environments. Three detailed case studies from organizations in different industries are presented.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this case study, discover how you can prevent unexpected downtime and enable highly available and scalable virtual desktops. Find out how you can build a fault-tolerant infrastructure and reduce your storage requirements with a robust software suite.

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 05 Apr 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Discover what it takes to scale your pilot into a live environment and how to avoid the most common mistakes, including incorrect ROI calculation, failure to gain user adoption and more with IT expert Brian Madden. Plus, review 6 corporate use cases and an exclusive Q&A session with questions posed by your peers.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Arnold Worldwide is a Boston-based global advertising agency. They needed to replace its existing SAN with virtualized storage. Read this case study to learn how Arnold successfully addressed their DR and scalability needs, but also reduced its data center footprint and slashed its power and cooling costs.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide for an introduction to enterprise cloud file sharing, the latest development in a series of cloud storage solutions designed to relieve some of the burden placed on administrators of today's virtual environments.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, learn how you can increase business agility by implementing effective capacity planning and VM management. Plus, access an exclusive FAQ that clarifies how and why you should leverage virtualization storage consolidation and shared storage to reduce costs while supporting advanced virtualization features.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: How much storage do you need to support a virtual desktop deployment? Discover how you can leverage capacity planning to balance performance and the high cost of storage and bandwidth in this expert e-guide. Plus, explore the pros and cons of storage virtualization and evaluate which storage strategies work best for your organization.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation from Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, dive into one of the most divisive topics in desktop virtualization today - storage for VDI. Discover the pros and cons of various storage implementations and how to decide which is the right solution for your organization.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011