The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region. 

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. 

Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure. 

This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions. 

This presentation transcript provides best practices for designing and deploying disaster recovery tools for critical applications. Discover how your organization can leverage these tools to improve availability and avoid costly downtime. 

This webcast and podcast provide best practices for designing and deploying disaster recovery tools for critical applications. Discover how your organization can leverage these tools to improve availability and avoid costly downtime. 

In this videocast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability. 

An ideal solution for dense computing environments where energy and thermal efficiency are at a premium. Featuring the Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2419 EE, this solution is designed with ZT's signature data center server engineering expertise for the groundbreaking new levels of performance per watt cloud computing providers demand. 

When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved. 

Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers. 

Read this comprehensive guide for customers to better understand Microsoft Virtualization and its role in enabling Dynamic IT and a people-ready business. 

The Microsoft System Center server compliance solution is designed to support data center managers as they deal with a variety of issues. Read this data sheet to learn more. 

To curb server proliferation and rising electrical costs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center moved its virtualization infrastructure to the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its server landscape.