Virtual-Machine White Papers

67 white papers are tagged with: virtual-machine


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™ Solutions Overview Guide for Microsoft® Hyper-V™

Hyper-V is the hypervisor-based virtualization technology from Microsoft that is integrated into all Dell supported Windows Server 2008 x64 Editions operating system. As a virtualization solution, Hyper-V allows a user to take maximum advantage of server hardware by providing the capability to run ...

Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage

This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. The goal of this white paper is to introduce the basic concepts ...

Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 with Six-Core Intel Processors Running Hyper-V

Information Technology organizations are finding that combining today’s industry standard servers based on multi-core processors with server virtualization can create highly efficient solutions. A series of tests were run comparing a Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 server using new Intel six-core ...

Using VMware® High Availability and VMotion™ with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers

This whitepaper provides information about how Exchange 2007 VMs, running on Dell PowerEdge servers, perform with VMware VMotion and VMware HA features of VMware Infrastructure 3. Understanding how these features of VMware Infrastructure affect the behavior of Exchange VMs is key in deciding how to ...

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 ESX Server Performance on Dual-Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers

Several Dell™ PowerEdge™ server models can be equipped with dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors. Dell engineers tested the Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with both single-core and dual-core processors, and the results showed a 28 to 51 percent performance gain when moving from single-core to dual-core ...
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