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Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1

The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service DNS servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Solaris 9, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., BIND, Sun Fire, Dell PowerEdge, Principled Technologies, Dell PowerEdge R900, Sun Solaris, Domain Names, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-10

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Max memory limits for 64-bit Windows 7

Max memory limits for 64-bit Windows 7I think a better question might bewhen we might start seeing memory densities that could make those limits 'limiting' in any way. I have not actually set eyes on any server board that will allow 128GB to be exceeded. I'm sure they exist, if...

Tags: Memory, Corporate governance, memory limit, RAM, 64-bit

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Dell aims to poach Sun customers

Popular computer company Dell is attempting to make it easy for customers to migrate from proprietary server platforms and outdated legacy datacenters to more open, flexible, standards-based technology. In other words: Sun customers, Dell's headed your way. Dell's ProConsult Infrastructure Consulting service is positioned...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell PowerEdge, Servers, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Staff Cost Savings Models to Justify RISC Migration

In the past, RISC-based servers delivered performance and memory advantages that made them the workhorses of corporate computing. And even though the systems used expensive, proprietary components and were expensive to operate, many organizations ran their critical business applications - including database, ERP, CRM, DNS server, and others - on...

Tags: RISC, Cost Savings, Migration, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-04-08

How-To Guide: Consolidating Multiple SQL Server Systems Onto Dell PowerEdge Servers Using Microsoft's Hyper-V

This paper provides concepts and procedures that will help successfully consolidate Microsoft SQL Server instances from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 system using Microsoft's Hyper-V. This paper uses the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers. Depending on the version of SQL Server are using...

Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Dell PowerEdge, Principled Technologies, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-29

Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on Dell R900 With Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition

The Dell PowerEdger R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical database applications from Oracle 9i running on Solaris 9 to Oracle 11g, the latest release of Oracle's data management platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL 5.2). This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Sun Solaris 9, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Oracle9i, Principled Technologies, Dell PowerEdger R900, Data Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Sun Solaris, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-11-13

Implementation of SAP Applications Using Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices: With Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Recovery Manager & Oracle GRID Control

This paper contains the suggested Oracle 10g Release 2 EE Database Real Application Cluster RAC server architecture and implementation of a SAP7.0 Landscape for a large commercial customer. The cluster storage is configured using OCFS2 and Oracle Data Guard is being implemented to provide disaster recovery capabilities. Oracle GRID Control...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Best Practice, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Oracle GRID Control, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-11-01

Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft 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 processors against previous generation quad-core processor servers. Microsoft Windows Server 2008's...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Dell PowerEdge, Information Technology Organization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Virtualization, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2008-09-01

Dell PowerEdge R900 Servers Give the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) a 400-Percent Boost in Processing Capacity

With data sets becoming larger and more scientists working concurrently, CISER's high-performance computing cluster was no longer able to keep up with the demands of advanced social and economic research. Dell PowerEdge R900 servers with the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series enable CISER to increase processing capacity while staying within...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, Intel Xeon, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components

Case studies 2008-09-01