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Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2

This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either...

Tags: SAP AG, Server, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Ip storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-06-23

Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2

This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either...

Tags: SAP AG, Server, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Ip storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-06-22

Pano Logic brings us closer to "The Screen"

Pano thin client by PanoLogic from Tech Broiler on Vimeo. In a previous podcast on Frugal Friday, I spoke to Pano Logic CTO Aly Orady about the Pano, a revolutionary thin client for virtual desktops for medium and large enterprises that brings us...

Tags: Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Pano Logic, Pano Device, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Keyboards, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Desktop Virtualization, Ip storage, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Protect Your Data and Maintain High Availability for Your VMware Environment With Veritas NetBackup and Cluster Server for VMware ESX

Organizations are using server virtualization to reduce costs and achieve greater flexibility; however, the risk of reduced data and application availability has slowed the implementation of production applications in virtual machines. Veritas Cluster Server for VMware is a comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution for the ESX platform, providing...

Tags: Microsoft Cluster Server, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, High Availability, Server, VMware Inc., VERITAS NetBackup, Virtual Machine, VMWare ESX, Disaster Recovery, Desktop Virtualization, Data Management, Hardware, Virtualization

Webcasts 2009-01-29

EMC CLARiiON Integration With VMware ESX Server - Applied Technology

This white paper provides a quick overview of how to connect an EMC CLARiiON storage system to a VMware ESX Server. It highlights the VMotion, VMware HA, and Distributed Resource Scheduling capabilities of the VMware ESX Server, as well as clustering of virtual machines when connected to a CLARiiON storage...

Tags: EMC Clariion, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., Storage System, VMWare ESX, Integration, Virtualization, Ip storage, Storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...

Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-21

SmallCapInvestor.com Sees Excellent ROI in ZXTM VA Within Their VMware ESX Server

Prior to their preparations for the launch, BFP had single servers performing multiple functions, with no load balancing which resulted in occasional loss of service in production. BFP decided to implement VMware Virtual Infrastructure to consolidate hardware resources, enabling them to choose to either allocate servers for other tasks or...

Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, ROI, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Server Room, VMWare ESX, SmallCapInvestor.com, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-11-01

Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)

Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)test what?so you are supposed to test EVERY day of every month of every year to see if there is a time bomb? if a customer put beta software in production without consent of the company then it is their...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, IP storage, VMware Inc., ESXi 3.5, TIMEBOMB, VMware ESX 3.5, software, time bomb, Update 2, beta, VMWare ESX

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)

VMware appears to have neglected to remove the timebomb, that is software that stops a product from running on a specific date and time, from its VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2) software when the company transitioned the software from beta test to the released product. This meant...

Tags: Software, Wise, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-14

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3iI dove deep dude ...... and in Table 11 came to 'iSCSI with Broadcom GB NIC'. Might give that a try before buying a RAID card.How about an expo from you/Robin H. on iSCSI? Some free offerings out there for iSCSI targets these...

Tags: IP storage, Storage area networks (SAN), Network technology, SATA Chipset, VMware Inc., iSCSI, Serial ATA, RAID, VMWare ESX, ESX, storage

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i

As soon as I heard the announcement from  bright and bushy-tailed VMWare CEO Paul Maritz that the company was shortly going to be releasing their ESX 3i enterprise-class embedded hypervisor for free, I was absolutely thrilled. Given the pace of technology reporting, I knew that I had to get it...

Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Ip storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-27

Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1

Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1AnacondaSince ESX Server is based on RHEL 3, Red Hat and Fedora users should easily recognize the Anaconda Installer. Issue a "cat /etc/redhat-release" at the command line to see for yourself.I use ESX Server to provide six RHEL 5.1 "backends" and...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ESX, VMWare ESX Server, Hardcore virtualization, VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure, server, VMWare ESX, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1

This will be my first in a series (an "X = X +1" sort of series) where I'll be looking at virtualization. However, rather than look at the kind of virtualization where you install an OS like Windows, Mac OS or Linux and then install an application that allows you...

Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 3.5, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1

This will be my first in a series (an "X = X +1" sort of series) where I'll be looking at virtualization. However, rather than look at the kind of virtualization where you inxstall and OS like Windows, Mac OS or Linux and then install an application that allows you...

Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, vmware, esx, virtual, hypervisor

Image galleries 2008-05-30

Data Protection and Application Availability for Your VMware Environment With Veritas NetBackup and Cluster Server for VMware ESX

Veritas NetBackup for VMware delivers the market's first granular recovery capability from a single image level backup. In combination with VMware Consolidated Backup VCB, NetBackup for VMware provides both the virtual machine backup performance and restore flexibility unchallenged in the industry today. Veritas Cluster Server for VMware is a comprehensive...

Tags: Microsoft Cluster Server, Data Protection, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Server, VMware Inc., VERITAS NetBackup, Virtual Machine, VMWare ESX, Disaster Recovery, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Storage, Data Management, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-05-07

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...

Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Protecting Business-Critical Applications in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment Using Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX

This paper begins with a brief overview of the problems of High Availability HA and Disaster Recovery DR in the virtual environment. Due to server clustering, outages have the potential to affect many servers at once, possibly causing a corresponding failure among many mission-critical applications. The paper then presents several...

Tags: VERITAS Cluster Server, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Ip storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-01-01

V-Ployment 3.5 (Windows)

V-Ployment enables users to configure and rapidly deploy VMware ESX 3.x Server builds to a consistent standard, whilst drastically reducing effort, time and cost when provisioning or building additional servers. V-Ployment simplifies the build and configuration process of VMware's ESX Server (VI3), saving time and effort. It also reduces the...

Tags: Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, NRLComputers, V-Ployment, Ip storage

Software downloads 2007-12-06

Validation Guide for HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA 2.x With VMware ESX Server 2.5.x

The purpose of the testing described in this paper was to validate VMware ESX Server 2.5.x with an HP Enterprise Virtual Array EVA 5000 and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA 2.0. This validation provides assurance that HP StorageWorks subsystems, HP ProLiant servers, integrated management software, and offerings from HP Services...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Access, HP StorageWorks, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Ip storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 With VMware ESX Server 3

Initial enterprise virtualization deployments often focus on test and development and server consolidation. Once these initial deployments are successful, the next step is to identify additional applications that can be virtualized, often beginning with basic, noncritical applications. Finally, enterprises might consider virtualizing their most critical, performance-intensive applications - including Microsoft...

Tags: Application, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Virtualization, E-mail Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Groupware, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage

White papers 2007-11-01