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A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Efficient Data Center Power Distribution Architecture
sponsored by APC
 | White Paper: | Posted: 31 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 31 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper discusses some of the new approaches to power distribution including modular distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.
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Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure: How to Optimize Energy Efficiency Without Impeding Growth
sponsored by Eaton Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 30 Oct 2009 | |
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Read this paper to learn the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity or too little and then provides concrete advice on strategies for right-sizing your power systems.
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Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.
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Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches
sponsored by VM6 Software
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 27 Oct 2009 | |
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This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
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Dell™ Reference Architecture Sizing and Best Practices for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a VMware® ESX Server Environment using EqualLogic PS Series Storage
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 20 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.
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Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange® Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running VMware® ESX
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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This paper provides an overview of deploying Exchange 2007 Server in a virtualized environment using VMware 3.5 Update 3 on Dell PowerEdge Servers and EqualLogic iSCSI storage array. In this paper a solution building block is proposed for 4000 mailbox users to deploy in an ESX environment running on Dell hardware.
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Power Efficiency and Management in Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, like its predecessor Windows Server 2008, has been designed with energy efficiency in mind. Recent tests found that Windows Server 2008 R2 improved power efficiency by up to 18 percent over Windows Server 2003, out of the box.
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Technical White Paper: Sizing tips for XenServer with HP ProLiant servers
sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Feb 2009 | |
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This technical paper provides general sizing best practices to consider when planning your virtualization deployment with HP ProLiant and XenServer.
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Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 09 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper focuses on best practices for implementing an enterprise Active Directory infrastructure using virtualization technology. We will discuss how to perform a full migration of your physical AD infrastructure to a virtualized environment.
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Using VMware Infrastructure 3 with 3PAR Utility Storage in Datacenter Deployments
sponsored by 3PAR
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2006 | |
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This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
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PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
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The Tangible Value of Server Virtualization
sponsored by Dell India
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 17 Dec 2007 | |
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Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.
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Consolidating Multiple Oracle OLTP Workloads on the Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere™ 4
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 21 Sep 2009 | |
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Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
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Increasing Reliability and Availability in a Virtualized SQL Server Environment
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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As companies continue to consolidate and look for best possible uses of both existing and new computer hardware, nowhere is this more apparent than server management. This paper will provide you some best practices and key success stories that you can use in designing and implementing your own virtualized SQL environment.
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