White Papers
What's New in VMware® vSphere™ 5?
VMware® vSphere™ 5 brings many new capabilities to further extend the benefits of vSphere 4.1. These new features and enhancements to core capabilities in vSphere provide more performance optimization, automatic deployment, and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.
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Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy VMware vSphere on EMC VNX Storage arrays
EMC® has over 60 points of integration with VMware® vSphere™, enabling VNX™ to maximize performance and ease-of-use. EMC is the only vendor to offer support for all of the Vstorage API families.
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Automated Operations Management for Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure
VMware vCenter™ Operations provides automated operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management. The focus of vCenter Operations is to provide the intelligence and visibility needed to proactively ensure service levels, optimum resource usage and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
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EMC CLARiiON Integration with VMware ESX
This white paper provides an overview of how VMware ESX integrates with EMC® CLARiiON® storage systems.
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Managing Capacity Using VMware® vCenter™ CapacityIQ
Capacity management in a virtual environment is more challenging for two reasons. First, the physical resources
in a virtual environment are shared across multiple virtual machines. Second, VMware® vSphere™ 4 ("vSphere")
has its own advanced features, such as VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and memory
optimizations, which manage resource allocations continuously and dynamically. CapacityIQ enables users to analyze, forecast, and plan the capacity needs of their virtual datacenter
environment.
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EMC CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning
This white paper discusses the benefits of Virtual Provisioning™ on EMC® CLARiiON® CX4™ storage systems.
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Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology Overview
To address rising data center operations costs and increasing workloads, businesses look for ways to increase
server computing platform efficiency through consolidation and virtualization.
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Improve Network Throughput by 38 Percent with the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card
The revolutionary Cisco® UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card (VIC) helps increase application performance and
consolidation ratios, with 38 percent greater network throughput, complementing the latest increases in Cisco
Unified Computing System™ CPU performance and memory capacity.
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Cisco UCS Manager Architecture
The management infrastructure of a traditional blade server solution must deliver and control the
power, cooling, network, and logic to the blades.
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EMC FAST for CLARiiON
This white paper introduces the EMC® CLARiiON® Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) technology and describes its features and implementation.
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