Solution Briefs

Cisco Nexus 1000V and vSphere

This YouTube video is an interview with a VMware Engineer introducing the new features in vSphere 4.0 for virtual networking. This includes the Virtual Network vMotion, virtual network appliances (such as firewalls) and the new vNetwork Distributed Switch. This is a good introduction to some of the... read more >>

VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch and vSphere

Fault Tolerance Intro Video – Good Introduction

This is an excellent YouTube video that introduces VMware?s new Fault Tolerance (FT) that has been released with vSphere 4.0. FT is the new high availability technology from VMware that will cluster virtual servers to allow for a virtual server in lockstep with the production server take over in the... read more >>

Humourous video about Vmware’s Value (from VMWare)

VMware Distributed Power Management and vSphere

This YouTube video introduces the VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) and how it can be leveraged to save power and money in the data center. The VMware Engineer discusses how it can be leveraged to improve the efficiencies in the data center and leverage it for power and cost savings. Read More →

Improving Economics of Blades using VMware

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

This is an excellent business oriented paper to introduce VMware?s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. VDI is the virtualization of desktop operating systems and applications run on virtual machines on servers in the data center. This paper reviews the cost, security and management benefits... read more >>

A Guide to Managing User Desktop Environments with VDI

This paper is an in-depth look at desktop virtualization and VMware?s solution ? Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It covers the range of solutions for desktop virtualization and the pro?s and con?s. Then it explores the technologies that VDI can leverage to give you an efficient, effective, desktop... read more >>

Reducing TCO with VMWare Considation

An in depth look at the TCO in three different companies after implementing server virtualization and consolidation with VMware. The paper covers the different factors used by VMware for the TCO and how a similar project of TCO or ROI can be implemented for other scenarios. Read More →

Fault Tolerance Data Sheet

VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) is a new technology from VMware in vSphere 4.0 that allows for zero-downtime, zero-data-loss, continuous availability for any application. FT is VMware?s solution for clustering in the virtual. It goes beyond previous clustering technology to allow for virtual servers to... read more >>

Using VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery

This is a technical paper that takes a detailed look at the backup options available for VMware ESX. It discusses how to choose what to backup in a VMware environment, how to off-load the backups, SAN versus server replication, how to get crash consistent backups and more. It does an excellent job... read more >>

VMware Distributed Power Management Concepts and Use

This is an Information Guide to VMware?s Distributed Power Management (DPM) feature in ESX 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5. The feature is excellent way to leverage Wake-On-LAN to allow VMware to power down unused servers when the workload drops and power up standby servers when workloads increase. In VMware... read more >>

Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure

This paper is a discussion on the need for disaster recovery and business continuity, with a focus on the business drivers and business impact. The paper goes into the different technologies and features that VMware uses to offer high availability, continuous access, non-interruptive backups and more.... read more >>

Virtualized iSCSI SANs

Virtualized iSCSI SANs VMware leverages shared storage to be able to offer services such as DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling), HA (High Availability), VMotion and many other highly desirable features of VMware. This paper discusses how features in storage virtualization such as automatic tiering... read more >>

Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware

A more technical discussion of the issues encountered when implementing traditional disaster recovery or business continuity solutions and how VMware?s disaster recovery and consolidated backup can be implemented to create a rapid, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery solution. The paper discusses... read more >>

EMC & Vmware: The Ultimate Disaster Recovery Solution

EMC & Vmware: IP Storage-iSCSI, NFS, or Fibre Channel

Steelhead XX50 Series Spec Sheet

Steelhead Mobile or Appliance in the Branch

Solution Brief Riverbed and VMWare DR

Riverbed and VMWare Consolidation

Solution Brief Riverbed and OPNet

Solution Brief Riverbed and Infoblox

Solution Brief Riverbed and EqualLogic

Wide area network-based approaches to data backup and disaster recovery are naturally limited by the performance of the WAN, and the storage infrastructure that resides at each site. Bandwidth limitations and network latency can make backup take much longer than desired, making such processes ineffective... read more >>

Riverbed Summary

This is a general overview of Riverbed and RiOS (Riverbed Optimization System). This paper discusses gives an introduction to Riverbed and the technology Riverbed leverages for WAN Optimization. It summarizes application optimization, transport optimization, data optimization (data deduplication) and... read more >>

RiOS 5.5 Technical Overview

An overview of the latest release of Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), the software behind Riverbed Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile. This paper covers Riverbed?s capabilities in Data Streamlining (data deduplication), Transport Streamlining (TCP Optimization over the WAN), Application Streamlining... read more >>

Riverbed Mobile King of the WAN

Steelhead Mobile can bring WAN Optimization to the mobile worker with Steelhead Mobile. The technology allows mobile workers to take advantage of the application optimization, data deduplication and bandwidth reduction that employees in the office get. PiperJaffrey (a leading investment and market research... read more >>

Performance Brief Windows File Share

Windows file share or CIFS (Common Internet File System) is one of the features most used by end-users of Windows operating systems and Windows-based networks over the WAN. Riverbed Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile can significantly improve the end user experience for file sharing over the... read more >>

Performance Brief Steelhead Mobile

Steelhead Mobile can bring WAN Optimization to the mobile worker with Steelhead Mobile. The technology allows mobile workers to take advantage of the application optimization, data deduplication and bandwidth reduction that employees in the office get. This performance brief reviews the expected performance... read more >>

Performance Brief Microsoft Office 2007

Riverbed optimizes not only the data stream but also the network access of applications commonly used in the enterprise environment. Microsoft Office 2007 presents some unique challenges to optimization, this paper reviews how the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) can address these issues and achieve... read more >>

Performance Brief EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Replication

Riverbed optimizes TCP/IP over the WAN and this includes iSCSI traffic. This report outlines the performance improvements that a Riverbed Steelhead can bring to the remote replication feature that is part of the standard feature set in an EqualLogic storage appliance from DELL. This is an important... read more >>

Assessment Best Practices for VMware Partners

Best Practices for Managing and Monitoring Storage in vSphere

Monitoring Hardware Health with vCenter 4

Upgrading to vSphere – Things to consider

What’s New In Lab Manager 4

Lab Manager Best Practices

What’s New in vCenter Server 4

Virtual Center – Troubleshooting Unleashed

VMware’s New Licensing Model & Compliance Best Practices

Datacenter Consolidation and Migration with VMware Site Recovery Manager

VMware Update Manager 4 Performance and Best Practices

Overcoming the Hidden Challenges of Virtualization

Introduction to VMware vSphere

Intro to Virtualization

Designing a Virtualization Infrastructure for the Small Environment

Building a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution with VMware

Best Practices for Successful VI Design

Virtual Networking Concepts and Best Practices

Virtual Networking with vSphere 4.0 – What’s New

Overview of VMware vSphere

Cool little things marketing did not tell you about vSphere 4.0

Enabling Better Business Outcomes with Policy-Driven Service Level Management

Cisco and VMware – Delivering Innovation for Virtualization

Building Cloud Ready Applications

Oracle E-Business Suite – Virtually Powering VMware

Database Consolidation on vSphere (SQL and Oracle)

Virtualizing SQL Server in a VMware vSphere environment

Virtualizing Blackberry Enterprise Servers (BES) on VMware vSphere 4

Enterprise Application Performance and Scalability on vSphere 4

Virtualizing Exchange 2007 on vSphere 4

Software Licensing Exposed

Efficient and High Performance Virtualization of Oracle Database Environments using vSphere

Oracle Database Virtualization Strategies