Vmware has relased Performance Best Practices for vSphere 5 and its available by clicking the download link below this short summary. This is a book designed to help system administrators obtain the best performance from vSphere deployments. VMware addressed many of the new features in vSphere 5.0 from a performance perspective. These include: Storage Distributed… Continue reading Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.0
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Virtualization technology white papers
Red Hat Cloud 101
In a remarkably short time, cloud computing has emerged as a hugely important evolution in the way that businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. It’s a fundamental shift to an operational model in which applications don’t live out their lives on a specific piece of hardware and in which resources are more flexibly deployed… Continue reading Red Hat Cloud 101
The CIO’s Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops
As information technology continually evolves, there is a cycle of tendencies between central and distributed control. You could envision mainframe technology with terminal services at one end of the spectrum: high performing, resilient and singular in its standardized support of thin clients connecting across the network. Open systems might be somewhat opposite, with a range… Continue reading The CIO’s Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops
IBM XIV with VMWare for Optimized Storage-Server Virtualization
This whitepaper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage. It reviews the complementary technologies of the VMware and IBM XIV® Storage System environments, while highlighting IBM XIV features that address the different issues. Real-world use cases provided at the end of the… Continue reading IBM XIV with VMWare for Optimized Storage-Server Virtualization
Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V Best Practices
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology. This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size. Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it… Continue reading Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V Best Practices
Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
In a 2010 Symantec datacenter survey, IT sites without a virtual infrastructure project planned or in progress represented just 18% of the 1,780 sites surveyed. On the other hand, roughly half of the sites with a virtual operating environment were planning to expand the use of virtual machines (VMs) by running missioncritical database-driven applications. Nonetheless, Symantec’s… Continue reading Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
Virtualizing Apple XServes: Choosing the Right Server Solution
As businesses and organizations grow in size and complexity, the demands placed on IT infrastructures and staff multiply exponentially. End users require access to all of the necessary software, applications and productivity tools that they need to get their jobs done. Developers and technical support staff need to develop, test and support applications in any… Continue reading Virtualizing Apple XServes: Choosing the Right Server Solution
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops
The benchmark results represent a greater than ten-fold (10x) decrease in the per-Desktop costs of SAN-based, high-availability virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) FORT LAUDERDALE: DataCore Software, the premier provider of software-based storage virtualization solutions, today announced benchmark results and a research paper which together represent the first practical architecture for SAN-based vDesktops (virtual desktops) in real-world… Continue reading Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops