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vTerminology: A Guide to Key Virtualization Terminology
IT professionals should strive to learn the proper meanings of terms used in the IT virtualization vocabulary and ensure that they and their colleagues share the same definitions.
Performance and Troubleshooting with esxtop
The esxtop utility is an excellent tool to use when you want to observe an individual ESXi host's performance.
KVM Security in the Cloud: A Choice That Matters
Examine how open source virtualization leverages SE Linux and its tight integration with the Linux kernel to provide a secure computing environment for both end-users and service providers.
Legal Issues of Cloud Forensics
Cloud forensics involves exploring issues a company and its forensic examiner may face when suffering a breach of company information in the cloud. What issues will they face, and, if needed, how can they collect information from the cloud?
vCloud Director 5.1 Networking Concepts
Learn about the different networking layers present in a vCloud environment as well as some other considerations in the configuration process, with the assumption that the reader has some technical experience with vCloud Director.
Simplifying VMware vCloud
This white paper provides a clear explanation of the clouds powered by VMware vCloud Suite.
Recommended Use of Resource Pools in VMware vSphere DRS Clusters
Resource Pools are often misunderstood, disliked, and untrusted by vSphere Administrators who have been burned due to unexpected results of improperly configured resource pools; this white paper presents examples of resource pools that were well-configured to obtain the desired result.
VMware vSphere Essentials
Gain a basic understanding of some of the concerns or planning points to consider when you get ready to deploy vSphere in your organization.
Seven Tips for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere5
Learn seven tips for working with vSphere; some are performance-related while others are things you might not know.
Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere5
With a home lab for VMware vSphere 5, done properly, you should be able to reproduce the training environment and run the labs from the courses you take.
Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center
A look at five basics to consider in any data center virtualization project: planning, balancing the various hardware components, sizing the storage properly, managing capacity, and automation.
Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing Desktops
Planning and implementing the virtualization of desktops is a challenge, but the result can be cost savings, greater productivity, and a happier work force that has the flexibility to work when, where, and with what devices they wish to use.
Tips for Maximizing Efficiency in a VMware vSphere Environment
There are many ways to improve efficiency in a VMware environment; here are some tips for achieving a more efficient environment from looking at the storage to viewing the entire environment's health with one view.
Virtualization: Myths vs. Facts
Examine fifteen common myths surrounding virtualization from a vendor-neutral viewpoint.
Five Tips for Configuring VMware vSphere 5.0
This white paper addresses five tips for configuring VMware vSphere. The first two tips are applicable to vSphere 5.0 and previous vSphere versions; the last three are for specific features that are new to vSphere 5.0.
5 Arguments Against Virtualization - And Why They Are Wrong
Separate some of the fact from fiction on five of the big misconceptions about virtualization
Virtualization 101
Take a look at what makes virtualization so compelling in terms of efficiencies, improved resource utilization, cost reductions, and automation; and how virtualization optimizes the performance of servers, desktops, applications, and users.
XenApp 6.5: New Features and Benefits
The new features included in XenApp6.5 provide a compelling reason to upgrade if you already own Citrix Presentation Server or to purchase XenApp if you don't.
Ten vSphere HA and DRS Misconfiguration Issues
VMware has a popular and powerful virtualization suite in the vSphere and vCenter family of products; we will focus on ten of the biggest mistakes people make when configuring the HA (High Availability) and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) features.
VMware vCenter Converter: Overview, P2V Tips, and Security Concerns
VMware vCenter Converter can help eliminate the potential problems, pitfalls, and breaches that can occur when converting from physical to virtual machines.
VMware View 5: What's New?
VMware View 5 improves the end user's experience to near-native, allowing for greater flexibility in how the virtual desktops are presented and in the actual capabilities of these desktops
Six Desktop Virtualization Pain-points and How XenDesktop 5 Helps Overcome Them
With virtualization, the focus on finding cost-effective solutions that address the needs of users, as well as IT departments, is more intense than ever; XenDesktop 5 offers the features and versatility that can make achieving those goals a reality.
Managing and Utilizing VMware Snapshots
Discover ways to use VMware Snapshots responsibly, issues that could arise from misuse, and how to address problems resulting from misuse, or from common issues even with proper use.
User Virtualization: What It Is and How It Can Save You Money
Examine some of the ways in which user virtualization represents the next step in the ongoing stratification of the data center.
Citrix XenDesktop 5: Key Advantages for Virtualizing Your Desktop Environment
Learn about the advantages of Citrix XenDesktop 5 that make it easier than ever to virtualize your desktop environment.
The Cloud: Promises and Realities
Learn about the current realities of cloud computing as they relate to data control, performance, security, and ROI.
Virtualizing Your Cisco Unified Communications with Cisco UCS
This white paper introduces the benefits of optimizing datacenters with the revolutionary new Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), and further optimizing Unified Communications infrastructure onto the UCS for even greater efficiency, performance, and savings.
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System
Discover Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, which is a good solution when you need a virtualization platform but not the overhead, complexity, or cost of a full-blown operating system.
Clearly Better Virtualization with Citrix XenServer™
This paper will help IT managers navigate the complex stack of virtualization technologies and prescribe methods to combine server and application virtualization together.
Features of a Comprehensive Application Security Solution
Learn how Citrix NetScaler protect against DoS/DDoS; deliver intrusion filtering capabilities; and provide encryption to offload functions from the servers.
Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
Learn how Citrix products can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop.
Reduce IT Costs Using Citrix XenApp 5
This Citrix white paper shows how XenApp 5 on 64-bit platforms lowers the cost of ownership for delivering applications.
Technical Guide: Using a Comprehensive Virtualization Solution to Maintain Business
Discover how virtualization solutions from Citrix are ideal for meeting disaster recovery and business continuity objectives.
10 Security Concerns for Cloud Computing
Discover some of the risks and benefits of cloud computing to be sure it is the right solution for you.
Cloud Computing: What It Is and What It Can Do for You
Examine the different types of cloud computing and learn what cloud computing has to offer you as either a consumer or producer.
Red Hat Virtualization, Part 1: Understanding How We Got to Hardware Virtualization
This white paper explores the benefits of virtualization: the reduction of hardware and better utilization of the resources provided.
Red Hat Virtualization, Part 2: Understanding Hardware Virtualization Internals
Learn how hardware virtualization allows for better utilization factors, but only if the newer hardware designs, with the latest processor updates and multiple cores, are considered.
Red Hat Virtualization, Part 3: Understanding CPU Evolution and Virtualization
This white paper discusses the evolution of the CPU and its place in the virtual machine.