White Papers 
An Introduction to OS Server Virtualization Gold Bookmark Popular Bookmark  This paper will introduce you to a different approach to server virtualization. OS server virtualization has a unique architecture, different from other server virtualization technologies as it was created for the consolidation of production servers and applications, designed to maximize performance and hardware utilization.

Data Center Best Practices: Optimizing Server infrastructure with OS Portability Gold Bookmark Popular Bookmark  Matching resource supply with workload demand allows for flexibility and the opportunity to continually optimize the use of existing resources. This white paper provides best practices for optimizing the use of server resources in the data center, and how to get the most of out existing server hardware using OS Portability technology.

Improved Test Lab Automation with Scalent Popular Bookmark  Resource and Productivity Challenges: Do you have a large or complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development or testing? Are you spending more time and resources setting up machines and cables for those systems, and resetting them to clean states, than actually doing development and testing? Don’t have enough machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You’re not alone.

Protecting Business-Critical Applications in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment Gold Bookmark Popular Bookmark  Server virtualization is becoming increasingly common in the modern data center. Implementing server virtualization enables businesses to consolidate the application workload of multiple servers onto a smaller number of physical hosts, resulting in improved hardware utilization, fewer physical servers, and considerable cost savings.

SAN/iQ: Enabling Technology for Effective VMware Deployments Popular Bookmark  IT organizations are recognizing the benefits of virtualizing their datacenters, and many of them are enabling server virtualization with VMware Infrastructure 3. LeftHand’s SAN/iQ platform offers features that complement VMware’s virtualization capabilities by performing functions in storage that are analogous to those VMware performs in servers.

The Role of Memory in VMware ESX Server 3 Popular Bookmark  The memory management capabilities of VMware ESX Server 3.0 provide a unique and sophisticated way to maximize the usage of physical memory within a single box. For many workloads, memory is the limiting factor, and effective memory management enables more virtual machines to share a single server, increasing ROI for consolidation. Advances in virtualization, CPU, and memory technology make the addition of memory one of the most effective investments for maximizing the utilization of an ESX Server host.

Virtualization Security Playbook Popular Bookmark  A collection of articles from Dark Reading, InformationWeek and Network Computing on virtualization security, its implications and considerations for proper planning. This one-of-a-kind collection is sponsored by AMD and Blue Lane Technologies.

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