Virtual Machine Reports

EGUIDE: Server migration can be a daunting process for your customers, especially if they do not have a solid plan in place before they begin. This expert e-guide offers best practices to help your clients embark on their server migration projects and ensure a smooth transition.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

EBOOK: Virtual data center managers must keep storage capacity and performance within acceptable parameters as business conditions change. Examine the nuances of virtual storage, including provisioning, performance and remote storage methods and ensure that you allocate the right amount of storage for each application.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

EZINE: This expert e-zine follows the evolution of virtualization and forecasts trends to expect for the future. Discover considerations and best practices for securing your virtual environment and get a sneak peak of what topics will be covered at VMworld 2011.

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 | Published: 04 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: An efficient storage solution is integral to a successful VDI implementation. With a Fluid Data architecture and integrated software features such as Automated Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Continuous Snapshots and Remote Replication, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN proves to be a highly effective storage option for VMware View.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data centers are going through massive changes at the compute layer. Server virtualization is transforming the IT landscape achieving amazing improvements in price-performance and agility. However, realizing the price-performance and agility benefits of virtualization at the storage layer can be a challenge. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Virtual implementation comes with a caveat: You must choose the right storage for your virtual server environment – which involves a few careful considerations and steps. This tutorial will walk you through these considerations and also discusses different storage options for your virtual environment.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: An Acronis white paper stating that integrating Disaster Recovery and Data Protection is a practical solution for reducing storage management TCO, improving IT administrator productivity, and increasing the reliability of backup and recovery plans.

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This exclusive resource explores the goals and business drivers of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation. Learn how this approach can help you increase business agility, reduce costs, prepare you for the cloud, improve staff productivity, and dramatically increase efficiency.

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 | Published: 27 Jul 2011

EZINE: This expert e-zine, brought to you by SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk, offers advice for developing a successful virtualisation strategy. Discover key points to keep in mind and tips to help you avoid stumbling blocks along the way.

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data center virtualization not only consolidates IT resources and boosts efficiency, but increases flexibility, performance and availability. By combining storage virtualization by Compellent with server virtualization by VMware, users know their data center will operate efficiently today and adapt to change tomorrow.

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: As virtualization initiatives have gathered momentum and virtual environments are becoming the norm rather than the exception, the infrastructure necessary to support these environments has exploded, creating new opportunities for inefficiency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines application infrastructure virtualization as a new virtualization category within the data center. Continue reading to learn how this technology can augment the capability and value of existing server virtualizations.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Where exactly does virtualization come in when implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)? This white paper takes a look at how server virtualization and storage relate (or don't relate) to VDI, and offers advice on virtualizing your desktops.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization can quickly result in excessively complex network ports if you don't have a plan. This white paper explores the factors that can lead to GbE port bloat, including physical server connection paradigms and security procedures. 

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium businesses cannot afford to lose access for their data. Research shows that even brief server failures lead most smaller businesses to shut their doors for good. In light of this, any business should develop a workable backup and disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Both Hyper-V and VMware support virtualization initiatives, but IT pros must select the best suited hypervisor to meet today’s high availability requirements.  This expert e-guide discusses the growing trend toward virtualization and compares Hyper-V to VMware and other market options.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Storage isn’t the same in virtual servers as it is in physical servers. Do your customer’s know these differences? This E-Guide walks you through the storage management and maintenance considerations for virtual servers compared to physical servers. Read on to learn what your clients should know about virtual servers in terms of storage.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide is designed to help IT pros assess the benefits of Hyper-V. Read about the advantages of Server Core and obtain tips and best practices for deployment success.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides a deeper understanding of vSphere 4, VMware's newest bare-metal hypervisor. Explore the various data storage types its supports and review ten tactics for improving data protection in your VMware infrastructure.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

EBOOK: This expert e-book explains the recent trend towards running mission-critical SAP applications on virtualized servers. Read now for an overview of the current SAP virtualization landscape, as well as detailed answers for critical SAP virtualization questions.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 22 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: There are many things to consider when designing storage to support a virtual desktop infrastructure environment. While budgets may limit some of your options, there are a number of creative solutions available that can help you get the performance your virtual desktops will require. Read this guide to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 22 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores monitoring challenges that IT pros face. Gain insight into how to streamline your processes and improve monitoring efficiency. Learn how server enhancements and other improvements could factor into your organization's virtualization decisions.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View™ environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 VM.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) defines CDP as "a class of mechanisms that continuously capture or track data modifications enabling recovery to previous points in time." In part two of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn how CDP is being used today, and about the latest CDP products.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 17 Jun 2011