December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper covers how to reduce and eliminate downtime.
December 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
December 29, 2009 - (Free Research) This document describes some of the components and concepts involved in designing a highly available deployment of VMware vSphere on a SAN, in conjunction with the Cisco MDS 9000 and Emulex HBAs.
December 05, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
January 25, 2010 - (Free Research) For most businesses, the legacy IT strategy is not only costly, it’s unsustainable. Clearly, a new approach is needed. That new approach is storage virtualization.
January 25, 2010 - (Free Research) Because data centers everywhere are being challenged to meet increasing business and IT demands with shrinking budgets, they are turning to server virtualization technologies, such as VMware, to optimize operational efficiencies throughout the data center.
January 15, 2009 - (Free Research) Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. Forrester surveyed 124 of its global clients on the topic of storage for virtual server environments.
March 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network (SAN) arrays offer a solid shared storage foundation for a virtualized data center that can enable organizations to take full advantage of the high-availability features included with Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.
June 09, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.
January 27, 2010 - (Free Research) The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.
February 11, 2010 - (Free Research) In this chapter, you find out how to use recent innovations in data protection to make protecting your data easier and more efficient. Continuous data protection enables you to shift your focus from backing up your data to recovering data faster and more efficiently and, perhaps, avoid the possibility of data loss all together.
November 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
January 04, 2010 - (Free Research) The importance of this chapter is to understand the need to support and store more data using various techniques and technologies to enable more cost-effective and environmentally as well as energy-friendly data growth.
August 01, 2009 - (Free Research) In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, Founder and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, will explain the practical benefits of storage virtualization, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization.
December 30, 2009 - (Free Research) The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, also known as the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), has installed two innovative Nexus 5020 switches from Cisco on its high‑performance network. By using the Cisco® Nexus 5000, ZIB has very cost effectively increased the speed at which huge volumes of data are transported to and from its in-house supercomputer.
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) Navicure, an insurance claims processing company, needed a more robust storage and disaster recovery solution. They chose a scalable, in-house storage area network using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI arrays, and automated the planning, testing, and deployment of a disaster recovery solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager software.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this podcast to learn how VMware and Dell are leveraging VMware vStorage with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs for greater virtual server performance and more efficient management.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this podcast to learn how VMware and Dell are leveraging VMware vStorage with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs for greater virtual server performance and more efficient management.
July 09, 2008 - (Free Research) Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.
May 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
