Infrastructure and Virtualization and Deployment White Papers

9 white papers are tagged with: infrastructure, virtualization, deployment


Key Service Management Processes for Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud computing has significantly impacted how companies deliver and support applications. On the positive side, cloud computing has the potential to both increase end-user productivity and reduce infrastructure costs. But a less-desirable byproduct of the shift to cloud computing is that IT ...

Deploying SunGard’s Ambit intelliSUITE in a Virtual Environment

For organizations looking to implement a matching and reconciliation with exceptions processing solution such as Sun Gard Ambit intelliSUITE, there are a number of options to consider in determining the deployment methodology required to meet the needs of the business. One deployment option is to ...

Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 2.5.x: Building a Virtual Infrastructure from Server to Storage

This document discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX server environments using Network Appliance™ technology.

Benefits of Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server in Hitachi Storage Environments

This white paper discusses the specific benefits that organizations can achieve by virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server in Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage platform.

VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide

This white paper describes the architecture of VMware ESXi and then explains how various management tasks are performed in it. This information can be used to help plan a migration to the VMware ESXi architecture from the legacy VMware ESX framework and to improve or enhance day-to-day operations.

VMware High Availability (VMware HA): Deployment Best Practices

This white paper describes best practices and guidance for properly deploying VMware® High Availability (VMware HA) in VMware vSphere™ 4.1 ("vSphere"), including discussions on proper network and storage design, and recommendations on settings for host isolation response and admission control.

Application Virtualization Comparison: VMware ThinApp 4.0 Versus Microsoft App-V 4.5 CU1 and Citrix XenApp 5.0

This white paper describes the comparison of VMware ThinApp 4.0 Versus Microsoft App-V 4.5 CU1 and Citrix XenApp 5.0 and evaluate the implementation requirements, packaging, deployment and update mechanism of these three application vitualization offers.

Running Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007 On VMware® Infrastructure

In this paper, we described the process by which customers can approach the tasks of virtualizing current physical or un-virtualized MOSS 2007 solutions on VMware Infrastructure. We also compared scaling and performance tests for both physical and virtual solution deployments and those results ...

The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure: Practical Implementation Strategies

This white paper describes the methods and implementation strategies to get started and to accelerate a successful roll out of virtualization technology within an orgnization.