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Data Protection Reporting for Your Virtual Machines
White Papers Which virtual machines are or most error prone? How much faster do the VCB (VMware Consolidated Backups) finish compared to the traditional backup clients running inside the virtual machines? Veritas Backup Reporter (VBR) provides the better...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
Benchmarking Servers Using Virtual Machines
White Papers Virtualization software is often used in enterprise on server machines to run Virtual Machines (VMs), each running a distinct server.is has many benefits including flexibility and lower hardware cost.is paper presents the results from conducting a...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Does IT: Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology (Level 300)
White Papers To ensure optimal performance, Microsoft IT has developed configuration best practices, based on the application workloads or services being provided by the virtual machines. The presenter of this webcast shows how Microsoft IT virtually deploys...
[May 28, 2009, 0:00]
A better way to migrate virtual machines
Blog Earlier this week Intel announced new processors that include a feature called VT FlexMigration, which will help administrators move virtual machines from one host server to another without any downtime.
[September 18, 2008, 9:13]
Using Virtual Machines to Provide a Secure Teaching Lab Environment
White Papers A teaching classroom or lab can provide additional protection for real systems while still allowing a full range of attack and defense exercises by using virtual machines. This paper will present a method for isolating these problems into a virtual...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance With Virtual Machines
White Papers This paper considers the use of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a data-center environment, where a significant portion of resources from a shared pool are dedicated to Grid job processing. The analysis reveals that a large fraction of Grid jobs have low...
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Credit Card Firm Vastly Simplifies Deployment, Migration, and Removal of Virtual Machines
White Papers While Leumi Card benefited greatly from better performance, server consolidation, easier setup of server resources, and cost savings from using Virtual Server - based Virtual Machines (VMs), it needed a more efficient and centralized way to...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Protecting Virtual Machines: The "Best of VMworld" Approach
White Papers By enabling IT managers to move virtual machines (and the applications they host) between physical servers, server virtualization gives them a powerful method for reducing planned downtime and speeding recovery.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Leading by Example: Microsoft Streamlines Creation and Allocation of Virtual Machines
White Papers The Microsoft Virtual Server Utility (VSU) team manages availability, capacity, and placement of more than 1,800 Virtual Machines (VMs) on more than 100 hosts throughout the enterprise. Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the VSU...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
A Case for High Performance Computing With Virtual Machines
White Papers This paper presents a case for HPC with virtual machines by introducing a framework which addresses the performance and management overhead associated with VM-based computing. Virtual Machine (VM) technologies are experiencing a resurgence in both...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
Designing High-Availability Solutions Using HP Integrity Virtual Machines as HP Serviceguard Packages
White Papers HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM) is the latest product in HP's Virtual Server Environment (VSE) to help customers maximize server resource utilization and reduce total cost of ownership by allowing individual operating-system...
[September 27, 2006, 1:00]
Heuristics for Scheduling Virtual Machines for Improving QoS in Public Computing Utilities
White Papers Computing utilities based on Virtual Machines (VMs) migrating among distributed computing resources are becoming increasingly practical and emerging as a viable infrastructure for outsourcing computer services.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
An Analysis of Disk Performance in VMware ESX Server Virtual Machines
White Papers VMware ESX Server is a software platform that efficiently multiplexes the hardware resources of a server among virtual machines. The authors characterize the performance of native systems and virtual machines using a series of disk microbenchmarks...
[September 23, 2006, 1:00]
Best Practices for Using Integrity Virtual Machines
White Papers This white paper provides an assortment of guidelines for deploying one or more Virtual Machines (VMs) with the Integrity Virtual Machines product. The scope of this white paper is limited to the Integrity Virtual Machines product, also referred to...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Hardware Support for Spin Management in Overcommitted Virtual Machines
White Papers Multiprocessor Operating Systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gang scheduling a guest OS's virtual processors (VCPUs) to avoid OS...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Getting real results from virtual machines
Talkback Me thinks that the future of virtual machines (as in virtual workspace) is in being able to function as a gadget for web-based portals. Me also thinks that as the price for hardware and software licences goes down the business case for virtual...
[October 26, 2005, 1:21]
Leading Insurance Company Test Lab Turns to Virtual Machines to Improve Efficiency
White Papers To reduce server growth and improve hardware efficiency, Allstate launched a server consolidation initiative that included deploying virtual machines in the company's test and development environments using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Introducing HP Integrity Virtual Machines
White Papers This paper introduces HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM) - an extension of the existing Partitioning Continuum that blends the benefits of HP-UX virtual Partitions (vPars) and HP Process Resource Manager (PRM).
[January 3, 2007, 1:10]
Using Serviceguard for Linux With VMware Virtual Machines
White Papers HP Serviceguard for Linux A.11.18.02 (A.11.18 with the October 2007 patches) is certified for deployment on Linux Virtual machines created on VMware ESX server 3.0.2 1 running 32-bit and 64- bit versions of RedHat 4 U5, RedHat 5, and SLES10 on HP...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Information Provider Cuts Costs and Improves Disaster Recovery With Virtual Machines
White Papers Today, the company hosts one of the largest known deployments of Virtual Server 2005 R2, with more than 1,400 virtual machines running on 345 physical server computers. To avoid paying for the leases on two data centers, Kroll Factual Data chose to...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
