Virtualization White Papers

487 white papers are tagged with: virtualization


Performance of Enterprise Java Applications on VMware vSphere 4.1 and SpringSource tc Server

This paper presents a performance study in which an enterprise-level Java application is virtualized with VMware vSphere 4.1. Tests are run to compare the performance of the vSphere system with a similar non-virtualized (native) system and to determine the best-performing configurations when ...

VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7

This guide provides administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or by utilizing a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 virtual machine. The recommended configuration settings ...

Best Practices for Virtualizing IBM DB2 with Technologies from VMware, Intel, and NetApp

From an architecture and operational efficiency standpoint, virtualization offers enormous benefits for customers who virtualize compute resources in their data centers. The question to ask is not “Can we deploy virtualization technologies for the business application?” but “How fast can we ...

VMware VCM Security Environment Requirements White Paper

This white paper provides a general overview of how to create and maintain a secure environment in which to install and run VCM. It includes information on securing your domain infrastructure and hosting environment, preparing IIS and SQL Server, and the secure management of Agent machines, ...

vCenter Configuration Manager Transport Layer Security Implementation White Paper

This white paper provides an introduction to transport layer security, including an overview of signing certificates, and recommendations for using and managing certificates with VCM. It includes information on how to create, install, and change certificates, how to work with certificate expiration ...

Virtualizing Business-critical Applications with Confidence

This white paper provides an overview of the challenges that organizations face in virtualizing business critical applications given their current tools and processes. Specifically, it focuses on the high availability requirements of these applications and the difficulty and compromises ...

VMware vCenter Update Manager Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1

VMware vCenter Update Manager delivers the most full-featured and robust patch management product for vSphere 4.1. This white paper displays test data and recommends various performance tips to help your Update Manager deployments run as efficiently as possible.

VMware vCloud Director Storage Recommendations

VMware vCloud Director provides new ways to automate alloccation of storage resources for private clouds and service providers. This paper explains two new layers of abstraction that are introduced with vCloud Director, discusses considerations and shares best practices for deploying vCloud ...

VMware vCloud Director Evaluator's Guide

The purpose of this document is to support a self-guided, hands-on evaluation of VMware Cloud Director 1.0. This document is intended to provide IT professionals with the necessary information to stand up a VMware Cloud Director based Cloud in a VMware vSphere environment. This guide will walk you ...

VMware vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide

The VMware® vCloud™ Director Security Hardening Guide helps users who are embarking into the journey of cloud computing understand key security elements and technologies found in VMware's vCloud Director product. It also provides guidelines and best practices for installation, configuration and ...
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