Esx Server White Papers

43 white papers are tagged with: esx-server


Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.0.x

VMware ESX Server software has been tested and deployed in a variety of storage area network (SAN) environments. This guide describes the storage devices currently tested by VMware and its storage partners.

Dell Powervault Configuration Guide for VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5

This document describes configuration steps to deploy solutions with VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 on Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i, NX1950, MD3000, and MD1000. VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 will be referred to as ESX for the remainder of the document. If any provision is related specifically to only ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5, ...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3

This paper discusses the performance and scalability of Exchange Server 2003 when it is deployed within virtual machines hosted by VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 on a Dell® PowerEdge® 6850 server with a Dell-EMC CX500 FC SAN. The Heavy user profile from Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 Load Simulator ...

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server

To demonstrate the power of running VMware Infrastructure 3 virtualization software on Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers, including use of the VMotion live virtual machine migration facility, a test was run to quantify the impact of VMotions on virtual machine performance. It was found that even ...

Best Practices for Migrating to VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Servers

This paper will focus on the advantages and best practices of virtualization in terms of enabling migration to a new platform of Dell 9G servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.

SQL Server 2005 Virtualization in the Dell Scalable Enterprise

The Dell scalable enterprise architecture uses industry-standard components to help simplify operations, improve resource utilization, and scale cost-effectively. Virtualization technology is advancing IT infrastructure standards by abstracting software from hardware, which can facilitate ...

Scalable Enterprise Implementation Study: How Dell IT Uses Virtualization to Enable Test and Development

This article discusses the virtualization best practices Dell IT has developed as well as the architecture of its large server farm-which is an example of how Dell uses a scalable enterprise architecture based on industry-standard hardware and software to achieve tangible benefits today. It also ...

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server

The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact on typical VMware operations of having two network connections available for each ESX Server host running on a set of PowerEdge 1855 blades. The white paper, "Deployment of VMware ESX 2.5.1 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers" ...

Management of VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant Servers

This paper describes the integration of VMware ESXi with HP System Insight Manager to provide full hardware management capabilities on HP ProLiant Servers. It also describes the hardware information and monitoring features available with VMware vCenter.

Best Practices for Implementing VMware ESX Server

Today's data center is an extremely complicated blend of varied hardware, operating systems, data and applications that have accumulated over time. One of the ways to combat the growing requirements is virtualization of the server. Server virtualization abstracts IT services (such as e-mail) from ...
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