Host-based Virtualization White Papers

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Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for VMware
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

NetApp

Dynamic IT: Expand Your Capabilities with Open Source
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: Open source software has developed dramatically over the past few years. View this white paper to learn how open source is essential for a successful IT department.
Posted: 18 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Red Hat and JBoss

Dell NX4: Achieving Storage Efficiency with Data Deduplication
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

DellEMC and Intel®

Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to present the unique considerations that virtualization presents to regulatory and standards compliance, and then prescriptively describe how to mitigate risks.
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

Tripwire, Inc.

HP Servers in a Virtual Environment
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to provide examples of how HP server virtualization and HP storage virtualization technologies work together to improve data center operational efficiency.
Posted: 19 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2005

PC Connection and HP

Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups.
Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

NetApp

Virtualization Overview
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization has the power to improve performance across IT and new hardware components like blades and 64-bit processors have only fueled its popularity. Download this paper to get a comprehensive overview of the virtualization infrastructure.
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

VMware, Inc.

Five Hurdles Organizations Face When Investigating IT Virtualization & How to Overcome Them
sponsored by About Agilysys, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization, while an important advancement for IT, has been put on the "back burner" by many organizations that think the project will be time consuming and costly. Learn about the realities of virtualization and why organizations should not wait.
Posted: 25 Jan 2007 | Published: 25 Jan 2007

About Agilysys, Inc.

Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition for Hyper-V
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

DellEMC and Intel®