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Using ESX Server and VirtualCenter to Reduce Oracle Real Application Clusters Deployment Costs and Cycle Times
White Papers ESX Server can be used to create a virtual RAC infrastructure. At a minimum IT organization must secure the hardware and technical resources necessary to deploy multiple servers, configure public and private networks, provision storage, and create...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
UMB Financial Corporation Values VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Server Management and Consolidation
White Papers The bank moved the teller application onto ESX Server - retiring the old hardware, eliminating third-party maintenance costs and increasing the availability of the teller application. Because the servers were important to their business, the...
[August 26, 2006, 0:00]
VMware ESX Server Performance Gains on Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dual Core Servers
White Papers In order to measure the amount of performance gain in a VMWare ESX virtualized environment, three different application workloads were run on the Dell PowerEdge 2850 with both single core and dual core processors.
[June 18, 2009, 14:31]
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3
White Papers This paper suggests how an enterprise-critical messaging application like Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 should be sized and deployed on VMware ESX Server1 to obtain a satisfactory Quality of Service.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Maintain Service Level Requirements by Extending QoS From the Server Layer Into the I/O Layer
White Papers With the increasing deployment of VMware ESX servers for mission-critical applications, it becomes even more important to maintain the performance of these applications in virtual machines. Using CLARiiON Navisphere Quality of Service (NQM) and...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
vCharter Pro review
Reviews Currently the suit integrates only with VMware VirtualCenter for ESX Servers and cannot be used without it. A vCharter Pro view of an ESX Server installation. We could also use the Application Detail dashboard to get a more detailed view of the...
[July 3, 2008, 9:11]
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Study
White Papers Each desktop instance is run inside a Virtual Machine (VM) running on Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware ESX virtualization software. This white paper describes the sizing guidelines for configuring the backend infrastructure (ESX servers in...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
VirtualCenter for VMware Server review
Reviews However, VMotion is a feature of ESX Server so it cannot be used with VMware Server. Other licences can be purchased for managing systems running VMware ESX Server, VMware GSX Server and for using VMotion.
[June 29, 2007, 16:00]
VMWare aims higher with new bundle
News The company is expected to announce VMWare Infrastructure 3, a software suite combining VMWare's ESX Server product with VirtualCenter management tools, VMFS distributed file system software, the company's Distributed Resource Scheduler, and its...
[June 5, 2006, 9:20]
Real stories of virtualisation
News By late 2004, having looked at all the different flavours of virtualisation software, Standard Life opted for VMware's ESX Server. This radical change in server deployment means that while in January 2005 there were 370 application servers running...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
VMware shares secrets in security drive
News Announced at the VMworld conference, the vendor will ship the latest version of its hypervisor (ESX Server 3i) embedded in the high-end hardware lines of IBM, Dell, HP, NEC and others. ESX Server 3i has considerable advantages over its predecessors...
[September 17, 2007, 8:46]
XenServer 5 review
Reviews Much like the market-leading VMware ESX server, XenServer is a hypervisor that loads and runs directly on a bare server, rather than as an application on a host OS. Importantly, the XenCenter management console is included as part of the package...
[November 18, 2008, 10:40]
VMWare goes four-way
News The capability, called 4-Way VMware Virtual SMP, will be released as an add-on to VMware's higher-end ESX Server software in the second half of 2005, the company said on Wednesday at its VMworld conference.
[November 1, 2004, 8:04]
VMware completes storage code testing
News On Monday, the company said its ESX Server software had successfully completed testing with EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Network Appliance. ESX Server is "virtualisation" software, which enables...
[December 9, 2003, 13:30]
VMware introduces 'operating system for the cloud'
News The product, a renamed successor to VMware Infrastructure 3, is a suite that incorporates the ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor and other application and infrastructure services. Rynger suggested that the achievement was possible because of the multicore...
[April 21, 2009, 18:09]
Ten crucial server attributes
Articles That is enough to run a modern hypervisor such as VMware's ESX and up to around eight to 10 virtual machines — which is increasingly what even low-end servers are being asked to handle. Alternatively, VMware's ESX hypervisor is downloadable free...
[September 18, 2009, 16:15]
A free tool from VKernel for tracking VMs
Blog Called SnapshotMyVM, it is a standalone application that can do the tedious job of documenting and recording all the virtual machines that are available and that work with VMware's ESX server environments.
[April 2, 2009, 15:12]
IBM promotes virtualisation on blades
News IBM will bundle a six-month evaluation version of VMware's ESX Server product and other software with its blade servers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Other VMware software included in the promotion lets one virtual machine be paused...
[March 23, 2005, 14:20]
ManageSoft tackles virtual licences
Blog Enterprise Compliance Manager has a VMware feature that works with ESX and VirtualCenter servers, but according to ManageSoft’s vice president for Europe, Patrick Gunn, it works with other virtualisation environments including Microsoft’s Hyper-V...
[December 3, 2008, 14:40]
Stratus ftServer 6200 review
Reviews As VMware has no built-in cluster support, the Stratus VMware bundle is the only way to build what is in effect an active/active cluster for VMware ESX Server. USB devices and the internal disks are also not currently supported, so we needed to...
[June 2, 2008, 10:04]
