iSCSI SAN Reports

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses some of the new features in vSphere, as well as how to connect a vSphere 5 environment to a Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storing and managing ever-increasing amount of data presents a formidable business challenge. Midsized companies are particularly challenged, because they typically lack the resources to handle the deluge. You can’t stop the massivegrowth in data, but you can doa better job of managing it.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: In this interview, Mike Laverick, a VMware expert, discusses the pros and cons of using iSCSI for virtual server environments. Find out the proper steps you should take when implementing iSCSI in your virtual environment, how to configure iSCSI in vSphere and how to test the performance of an iSCSI storage device.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide to discover how VDI environments impact storage, and how to determine your storage requirements within your virtual desktop. Also learn efficiency tricks to use in your VDI environment and much more.

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: This tutorial can help minimize your storage/VDI problems by outlining VDI considerations prior to implementation.

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This SearchDataBackup.com E-Guide discusses three data reduction solutions other than deduplication and how each works. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dell tested a sample of 1,000 virtual desktops and simulated real-world workloads using a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop VDI environment with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 as the hypervisor.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this SearchStorage.com E-Guide to hear all about this technology update from HP and what the experts have to say.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Today's storage technology offers a range of options for virtualization. To make the best choices, be sure assess your needs and consider your business objectives. Review the critical steps to make of the most of your storage so you can get the performance you expect from your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

EBOOK: With Fibre Channel, iSCSI and even prepackaged storage-plus-SAN solutions available, figuring out which makes sense for your particular environment can be tricky. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

MICROSITE: The Dell EqualLogic storage solution has simple administration tools to help enable the seamless addition of storage online as more capacity is needed, as well as the optimization of performance and data protection features. Explore different storage solutions for your Oracle Databases that promote efficiency and agility through an intelligent...

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this interview transcript, VMware expert Eric Siebert discusses the best way to use NFS for virtual server environments. Discover the benefits and complications that can arise when implementing network-attached storage (NAS) in your virtual server platform and more.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Fibre Channel remains the technology of choice for most virtual server environments even as iSCSI storage-area networks (SANs) gain traction. Read this SearchStorage.com Special Report to learn how some storage professionals are evaluating 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) iSCSI SANs as they expand their virtual server environments.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage systems are not delivering the price-performance and agility at the storage layer required to keep up with the new virtualized compute layer. This paper explores a third storage networking technology, Ethernet SAN, and why you don’t have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

EZINE: Storage networks are an essential element of server virtualization, but there are several options available today. Is it better to invest in a separate SAN or move storage over Ethernet using iSCSI or FCoE technology? This article considers the tradeoffs of each approach and presents important considerations for both.

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 24 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Some iSCSI vendors bring complex multi-node failover mechanisms and more to the table, complicating head-to-head comparisons. In this report Taneja Group sets out to examine Dell’s differentiation in the midst of a crowded and rapidly growing field.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The combined strength of Dell and VMware® can deliver significant benefits for small, medium, and large organisations across all industries and sectors. Read this paper to learn about the benefits of integrating the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series family together with VMware® vStorage APIs.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript to learn how SAN tiering can improve both performance and efficiency and how Dell's PS Series' intelligent, virtualized storage technologies can help simplify tiering design, implementation and management.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Aug 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Automated Storage Tiering features provided standard on Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series SANs are designed to help organizations to reduce costs, improve performance, optimize SAN storage, and much more. Read this solution brief to learn more about the features and business benefits.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 | Published: 03 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The combination of iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet is uniquely attractive - find out how by checking out this presentation transcript. Also learn how 10 GbE can simplify connectivity for physical, blade, virtual servers and network storage.

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 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