ANALYST BRIEF - Consolidating servers with VMware Infrastructure can deliver significant benefits, including: reduced capital and operating costs, infrastructure costs, faster IT response to business demands, improved IT service levels, and more consistent business operations.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware Server

ANALYST BRIEF - SEPATON is among the growing list of vendors to join the VMware Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. SEPATON has its sights set on solving the backup challenges of virtual server implementations - in particular, VMware environments - with VTL.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | VMware | VMware ESX

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Network Architectures | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Network Managers | Networking | Systems Management | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how discovery and dependency mapping (DDM) tools can help organizations overcome the challenges of virtual sprawl. Learn how you can leverage this mapping tool for effective infrastructure management without increasing costs and risk.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Premieres: December 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs and provide greater IT and user flexibility compared to traditional application and desktop management models.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Citrix XenServer | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | SAN | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Backups | Disaster Recovery | Virtualization Security | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery

WEBCAST - In this webcast, discover how to achieve greater virtualization maturity, from clearer visibility to higher service levels in your VMware environment. Learn how to identify where your company fits in the virtualization maturity model and find virtualization tools that enable optimal IT performance.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Premiered: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Management | Mobile Workers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | File Recovery Programs | Storage Virtualization | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3

CASE STUDY - Isaac Agnew (Holdings) Ltd is one of the largest car retailers in Northern Ireland. When they needed a fast backup and recovery solution for their VMware ESX environment that didn’t require hours of rebuilding data, they turned to the Veeam Backup & Replication solution.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | File Recovery Programs | Network Performance | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This independent study by the International Technology group found IBM PowerVM more cost-competitive over time, compared to VMware, in terms of IT costs and the costs of downtime.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: April 14, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CRM | ERP | IT Spending | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | UNIX | VM | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Systems | Microsoft Operations Manager | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3

CASE STUDY - Learn how they used the nworks Management Pack (MP) to centralize monitoring of physical and VMware virtual infrastructures, reduce costs of implementing VMware monitoring, and give them the ability to receive performance metrics specific to the VMware virtual infrastructure.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Network Infrastructure | Network Monitoring Software | Network Performance Management Software | Server Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
Posted: November 5, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3