This document describes a virtualization solution for running Microsoft SQL Server using VMware Infrastructure 3 and EMC Celerra IP Storage servers. The solution provides benefits like high availability, scalability, and maintaining performance. It ensures SQL Server environments remain available and can grow easily. Virtualizing SQL Server reduces complexity, improves flexibility and reliability of the infrastructure, and allows for simple disaster recovery and provisioning of new resources. The solution consists of VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualization, EMC Celerra IP storage servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Microsoft SQL Server.
The document provides an introduction to VMware Infrastructure, which includes ESX Server, VirtualCenter Server, and various distributed services. It describes the typical physical topology of a VI datacenter, including computing servers running ESX Server, storage networks and arrays, IP networks, the VirtualCenter management server, and desktop clients. It also provides an overview of the virtual datacenter architecture and its key components like hosts, clusters, resource pools, and distributed services.
VMware Infrastructure is a full virtualization suite that provides comprehensive virtualization, management, and automation capabilities. It virtualizes physical hardware resources across servers and provides pools of virtual resources. It also includes distributed services that enable fine-grained resource allocation, high availability, and consolidated backup of the entire virtual datacenter. The main components are ESX Server, which provides the virtualization layer, and VirtualCenter Server, which is used to centrally manage virtualized environments.
Getting Started with ESXServer3iEmbedded aktivfinger
- The document provides instructions for setting up and configuring ESX Server 3i Embedded for the first time, including adding the host to the network, deploying the VI Client to connect to a single host, deploying virtual machines, and deploying VMware Infrastructure with VirtualCenter to manage multiple hosts.
- It describes the key components of VMware Infrastructure including the VI Client, VirtualCenter Server, datacenter, host, and virtual machines. It compares managing a single host versus managing multiple hosts with VirtualCenter.
- The steps explained include configuring the administrative password and management network on the ESX Server 3i host using the direct console before installing the VI Client software.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
The document discusses the benefits of using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 5 for VMware ESX Server. VCS 5 provides high availability and disaster recovery for virtual machines and applications. It protects against failures at all levels from physical servers to individual applications. VCS 5 also provides granular management of virtual environments similar to physical servers and allows configurations such as M+N clusters across multiple data centers for disaster recovery.
Using VMware Infrastructure for Backup and Restorewebhostingguy
This document discusses best practices for backing up virtual machines running on VMware ESX Server. There are three main approaches: 1) treating virtual machines like physical machines and backing them up from within the guest OS, 2) backing up the virtual machine disk files on the ESX Server host, and 3) using VMware Consolidated Backup which offloads backups to a separate backup proxy server. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages depending on backup software compatibility and restoration granularity needs.
This document discusses best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 5 on IBM SONAS scale-out network attached storage. It provides an overview of new features in vSphere 5 including Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and centralized logging. It then covers planning the creation of NFS shares on SONAS, installing and configuring vSphere, and adding NFS data stores. Recommendations are provided such as using large SONAS storage pools and fewer larger NFS data stores. The document is intended to help customers implement effective storage solutions for enterprise virtual environments requiring extreme scalability.
This document discusses virtualizing server infrastructure for SharePoint environments. It begins by outlining benefits of virtualization like reducing costs, consolidating servers, and optimizing investments. It then discusses specific SharePoint components that are good candidates for virtualization like web servers, query servers, and index servers. It provides guidelines on memory limitations and virtualizing development, test, and production environments. It also discusses virtualization software options from Microsoft and third parties and Microsoft licensing implications. Finally it shares some sample virtualized SharePoint environments.
The document provides an introduction to VMware Infrastructure, which includes ESX Server, VirtualCenter Server, and various distributed services. It describes the typical physical topology of a VI datacenter, including computing servers running ESX Server, storage networks and arrays, IP networks, the VirtualCenter management server, and desktop clients. It also provides an overview of the virtual datacenter architecture and its key components like hosts, clusters, resource pools, and distributed services.
VMware Infrastructure is a full virtualization suite that provides comprehensive virtualization, management, and automation capabilities. It virtualizes physical hardware resources across servers and provides pools of virtual resources. It also includes distributed services that enable fine-grained resource allocation, high availability, and consolidated backup of the entire virtual datacenter. The main components are ESX Server, which provides the virtualization layer, and VirtualCenter Server, which is used to centrally manage virtualized environments.
Getting Started with ESXServer3iEmbedded aktivfinger
- The document provides instructions for setting up and configuring ESX Server 3i Embedded for the first time, including adding the host to the network, deploying the VI Client to connect to a single host, deploying virtual machines, and deploying VMware Infrastructure with VirtualCenter to manage multiple hosts.
- It describes the key components of VMware Infrastructure including the VI Client, VirtualCenter Server, datacenter, host, and virtual machines. It compares managing a single host versus managing multiple hosts with VirtualCenter.
- The steps explained include configuring the administrative password and management network on the ESX Server 3i host using the direct console before installing the VI Client software.
This document is an introduction to the course "VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage". The course aims to equip administrators with the skills to build and manage a VMware vSphere environment, including installing and configuring ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines. After completing the course, students should be able to perform tasks like configuring networking and storage, managing virtual machines, using vCenter Server for monitoring, and installing ESXi and vCenter Server.
The document discusses the benefits of using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 5 for VMware ESX Server. VCS 5 provides high availability and disaster recovery for virtual machines and applications. It protects against failures at all levels from physical servers to individual applications. VCS 5 also provides granular management of virtual environments similar to physical servers and allows configurations such as M+N clusters across multiple data centers for disaster recovery.
Using VMware Infrastructure for Backup and Restorewebhostingguy
This document discusses best practices for backing up virtual machines running on VMware ESX Server. There are three main approaches: 1) treating virtual machines like physical machines and backing them up from within the guest OS, 2) backing up the virtual machine disk files on the ESX Server host, and 3) using VMware Consolidated Backup which offloads backups to a separate backup proxy server. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages depending on backup software compatibility and restoration granularity needs.
This document discusses best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 5 on IBM SONAS scale-out network attached storage. It provides an overview of new features in vSphere 5 including Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and centralized logging. It then covers planning the creation of NFS shares on SONAS, installing and configuring vSphere, and adding NFS data stores. Recommendations are provided such as using large SONAS storage pools and fewer larger NFS data stores. The document is intended to help customers implement effective storage solutions for enterprise virtual environments requiring extreme scalability.
This document discusses virtualizing server infrastructure for SharePoint environments. It begins by outlining benefits of virtualization like reducing costs, consolidating servers, and optimizing investments. It then discusses specific SharePoint components that are good candidates for virtualization like web servers, query servers, and index servers. It provides guidelines on memory limitations and virtualizing development, test, and production environments. It also discusses virtualization software options from Microsoft and third parties and Microsoft licensing implications. Finally it shares some sample virtualized SharePoint environments.
PowerVM is IBM's virtualization technology for its Power Systems servers. It allows consolidating multiple workloads onto a single physical server through logical partitioning. A comparison of PowerVM and x86 virtualization shows that PowerVM achieves higher performance and resource utilization. Industry-standard benchmarks like TPC-C and SAP SD 2-tier show PowerVM maintaining or exceeding native performance levels, while x86 systems see performance decreases with virtualization. PowerVM's tight integration with the Power hardware and firmware delivers benefits like stronger isolation, scalability, and availability compared to software-based x86 virtualization.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection for VMware - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
The document discusses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection capabilities for VMware environments, including an overview of virtual machine backup methods like in-guest, on-host, and off-host backup. It also covers how VMware Consolidated Backup works compared to using vStorage APIs for Data Protection, and provides a high-level overview of IBM's TSM solution for backing up and recovering VMware virtual machines. Potential future enhancements like integrating with VMware vSphere client and FlashCopy Manager are also outlined.
VMware ESX Server provides a virtualization platform for mission-critical environments. It utilizes hardware virtualization to present virtual machines with direct access to resources, allowing multiple guest operating systems to run in isolation on a single physical server. ESX Server offers a bare-metal architecture for high performance, as well as granular resource management and hardware support from major vendors to maximize utilization and flexibility.
This White Paper describes the EMC Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution based on EMC Avamar, EMC Data Protection Advisor, and EMC HomeBase, which allows service providers to deliver backup services for cloud and traditional hosted environments, reduce storage space, increase backup speeds, and provide portal-based backup management.
Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
- ESXi no longer includes a Service Console. Configuration is done through ESXi Shell, vCLI, and PowerCLI commands.
- ESXi uses a single text-based installer for fresh installations and upgrades.
- vSphere Auto Deploy and ESXi Image Builder CLI allow deploying ESXi directly to memory.
- Partitions use GPT format for new installations over 2TB instead of MSDOS. VMFS5 is used.
- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
This document discusses how VMware Infrastructure can leverage Fibre Channel shared storage in a virtualized environment. It describes how NPIV enables individual VMs to have unique identifiers on the SAN fabric. This allows features like quality of service, monitoring, and security to be applied at the VM level rather than just the physical server. The document also provides examples of how NPIV and Brocade's adaptive networking capabilities can optimize performance and resource allocation for VMs during storage intensive tasks like backups.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
VMGate.com
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same physical server at the same time. This increases hardware utilization and flexibility while reducing IT costs. VMware virtualization solutions can reduce energy costs by 80% through server consolidation and powering down unused servers without affecting applications or users. Virtualization makes hardware resources independent of operating systems and applications, treating them as single unified units that can be more easily deployed, maintained, and supported.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
This document discusses optimizing an EMC Symmetrix storage array to support virtual desktops in a private cloud environment. It outlines testing that was done using the Vblock Series 700 model MX configuration with Symmetrix VMAX storage, VMware vSphere, and Cisco UCS servers. The testing showed the storage array could support up to 1536 virtual desktops while maintaining balanced utilization across the front end, back end, and disks. It provides best practices for configuring the various components to optimally support virtual desktops at scale.
Overview of VMware & VMware Education from IBMctc TrainCanada
Presentation will be delivered by IBM Training VMware Instructor, Stephen DeBarros, and will cover:
Virtualization 101.
Advantages to Virtualization.
What is Vmware VSphere?
Using Vmware Overview.
Overview of VMware education offered at IBM and newly released education
Recorded webinar is available here:
http://www.traincanada.com/site/event/overview-of-vmware-vmware-education-from-ibm/
The document provides a summary of Tino Varghese's skills and experience. He has over 10 years of experience in Windows and VMware administration. He is proficient in technologies like Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, and virtualization software VMware. Currently he works as a Senior System Administrator at KRC International LLC in Abu Dhabi, where he manages servers, storage, backups and the IT infrastructure.
The document summarizes tools and techniques for managing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi without the service console. It discusses the ESXi architecture and management options including the vSphere Client, ESXi console, ESXi web tools, remote CLI, Perl SDK, PowerCLI, and VMware vSphere Management Assistant. It provides examples of managing ESXi using these various interfaces.
This document discusses enhancing an automation framework called vdNet Framework for testing virtual networking in VMware ESX. It first provides background on virtual networking concepts and components in VMware, including virtual switches, virtual network adapters, and network isolation. It then describes the vdNet Framework, how it is used to automate testing of virtual networking features using a master controller machine and test virtual machines. It also discusses how the framework utilizes the STAF automation framework to remotely execute tests on the system under test.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. It describes the basic concepts of virtualization and VMware ESXi, outlines the vSphere components, and how vSphere fits into software-defined data centers and clouds. It also introduces the vSphere Client user interface and provides learning objectives for lessons on the software-defined data center, the vSphere Client, and an overview of ESXi.
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables consolidation of multiple SQL Server instances onto fewer servers and centralized storage. It provides high availability, virtualization-like flexibility, scalable capacity allocation, and instance mobility. Key features include an adaptive SQL platform, consolidated data management, and high availability for mission-critical applications. It goes beyond consolidation and failovers to meet Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it ideal for database consolidation.
Configuring Windows 2000/XP IPsec for Site-to-Site VPNwebhostingguy
This document provides instructions for configuring Windows 2000/XP IPsec for site-to-site VPN connections with Safe@Office appliances. It describes creating an IP security policy in Windows, adding IP filters for network traffic between the Windows machine and Safe@Office in both directions, and setting the filter actions to negotiate IPsec security with encryption. Contact information is provided for technical support.
This document outlines the terms of a dedicated server service agreement between DeVore Technologies Inc. and its clients. Key points include:
- Clients must agree to the terms of this agreement and any future changes made without notification.
- DeVore will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide 24/7 dedicated server services but cannot guarantee continuous availability.
- Clients are responsible for server content and compliance with all laws. DeVore may remove content that violates its policies.
- Additional terms cover IP address usage, prohibited server uses, security, third party software, and limitations of liability. Fees may apply for optional assisted server services.
PowerVM is IBM's virtualization technology for its Power Systems servers. It allows consolidating multiple workloads onto a single physical server through logical partitioning. A comparison of PowerVM and x86 virtualization shows that PowerVM achieves higher performance and resource utilization. Industry-standard benchmarks like TPC-C and SAP SD 2-tier show PowerVM maintaining or exceeding native performance levels, while x86 systems see performance decreases with virtualization. PowerVM's tight integration with the Power hardware and firmware delivers benefits like stronger isolation, scalability, and availability compared to software-based x86 virtualization.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection for VMware - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
The document discusses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection capabilities for VMware environments, including an overview of virtual machine backup methods like in-guest, on-host, and off-host backup. It also covers how VMware Consolidated Backup works compared to using vStorage APIs for Data Protection, and provides a high-level overview of IBM's TSM solution for backing up and recovering VMware virtual machines. Potential future enhancements like integrating with VMware vSphere client and FlashCopy Manager are also outlined.
VMware ESX Server provides a virtualization platform for mission-critical environments. It utilizes hardware virtualization to present virtual machines with direct access to resources, allowing multiple guest operating systems to run in isolation on a single physical server. ESX Server offers a bare-metal architecture for high performance, as well as granular resource management and hardware support from major vendors to maximize utilization and flexibility.
This White Paper describes the EMC Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution based on EMC Avamar, EMC Data Protection Advisor, and EMC HomeBase, which allows service providers to deliver backup services for cloud and traditional hosted environments, reduce storage space, increase backup speeds, and provide portal-based backup management.
Here are the key differences between vSphere 5.0 and earlier vSphere versions that affect installation and setup:
- ESXi no longer includes a Service Console. Configuration is done through ESXi Shell, vCLI, and PowerCLI commands.
- ESXi uses a single text-based installer for fresh installations and upgrades.
- vSphere Auto Deploy and ESXi Image Builder CLI allow deploying ESXi directly to memory.
- Partitions use GPT format for new installations over 2TB instead of MSDOS. VMFS5 is used.
- The vCenter Server Appliance provides an alternative to Windows-based vCenter Server.
- The vSphere Web Client provides browser-based
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
This document discusses how VMware Infrastructure can leverage Fibre Channel shared storage in a virtualized environment. It describes how NPIV enables individual VMs to have unique identifiers on the SAN fabric. This allows features like quality of service, monitoring, and security to be applied at the VM level rather than just the physical server. The document also provides examples of how NPIV and Brocade's adaptive networking capabilities can optimize performance and resource allocation for VMs during storage intensive tasks like backups.
VMware vSphere Version Comparison 4.0 to 6.5Sabir Hussain
VMware vSphere leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple system and provides pools off virtual resources to the datacenter.
VM Virtualization
VMGate.com
This document discusses virtual machine creation and management topics including vNetwork, vStorage, vMotion, DRS, and high availability (HA). It covers virtual machine hardware configuration, the files that make up a virtual machine, VMware Tools, and virtual machine power options. It also summarizes storage protocols, thin and thick provisioning, methods for migrating virtual machines, and how vMotion and DRS work. Finally, it discusses HA features like protection at different availability levels, using NIC teaming or additional networks for redundancy, and how the HA cluster architecture functions with a master and slave agents.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same physical server at the same time. This increases hardware utilization and flexibility while reducing IT costs. VMware virtualization solutions can reduce energy costs by 80% through server consolidation and powering down unused servers without affecting applications or users. Virtualization makes hardware resources independent of operating systems and applications, treating them as single unified units that can be more easily deployed, maintained, and supported.
V mware v sphere 5 fundamentals services kitsolarisyougood
This document provides an overview and summary of various VMware vSphere upgrade services and documentation. It includes a document map linking to guides, overviews, planning documents and other reference materials related to upgrading VMware vSphere environments from version 5.0 to 5.1. The summary also briefly outlines some key features of VMware vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability and vCenter Server editions.
This document discusses optimizing an EMC Symmetrix storage array to support virtual desktops in a private cloud environment. It outlines testing that was done using the Vblock Series 700 model MX configuration with Symmetrix VMAX storage, VMware vSphere, and Cisco UCS servers. The testing showed the storage array could support up to 1536 virtual desktops while maintaining balanced utilization across the front end, back end, and disks. It provides best practices for configuring the various components to optimally support virtual desktops at scale.
Overview of VMware & VMware Education from IBMctc TrainCanada
Presentation will be delivered by IBM Training VMware Instructor, Stephen DeBarros, and will cover:
Virtualization 101.
Advantages to Virtualization.
What is Vmware VSphere?
Using Vmware Overview.
Overview of VMware education offered at IBM and newly released education
Recorded webinar is available here:
http://www.traincanada.com/site/event/overview-of-vmware-vmware-education-from-ibm/
The document provides a summary of Tino Varghese's skills and experience. He has over 10 years of experience in Windows and VMware administration. He is proficient in technologies like Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, and virtualization software VMware. Currently he works as a Senior System Administrator at KRC International LLC in Abu Dhabi, where he manages servers, storage, backups and the IT infrastructure.
The document summarizes tools and techniques for managing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi without the service console. It discusses the ESXi architecture and management options including the vSphere Client, ESXi console, ESXi web tools, remote CLI, Perl SDK, PowerCLI, and VMware vSphere Management Assistant. It provides examples of managing ESXi using these various interfaces.
This document discusses enhancing an automation framework called vdNet Framework for testing virtual networking in VMware ESX. It first provides background on virtual networking concepts and components in VMware, including virtual switches, virtual network adapters, and network isolation. It then describes the vdNet Framework, how it is used to automate testing of virtual networking features using a master controller machine and test virtual machines. It also discusses how the framework utilizes the STAF automation framework to remotely execute tests on the system under test.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization solutions including ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter. It describes what virtualization and hypervisors are, lists VMware's product lines, and summarizes key features and capabilities of ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter such as centralized management, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. It describes the basic concepts of virtualization and VMware ESXi, outlines the vSphere components, and how vSphere fits into software-defined data centers and clouds. It also introduces the vSphere Client user interface and provides learning objectives for lessons on the software-defined data center, the vSphere Client, and an overview of ESXi.
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Serverwebhostingguy
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables consolidation of multiple SQL Server instances onto fewer servers and centralized storage. It provides high availability, virtualization-like flexibility, scalable capacity allocation, and instance mobility. Key features include an adaptive SQL platform, consolidated data management, and high availability for mission-critical applications. It goes beyond consolidation and failovers to meet Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it ideal for database consolidation.
Configuring Windows 2000/XP IPsec for Site-to-Site VPNwebhostingguy
This document provides instructions for configuring Windows 2000/XP IPsec for site-to-site VPN connections with Safe@Office appliances. It describes creating an IP security policy in Windows, adding IP filters for network traffic between the Windows machine and Safe@Office in both directions, and setting the filter actions to negotiate IPsec security with encryption. Contact information is provided for technical support.
This document outlines the terms of a dedicated server service agreement between DeVore Technologies Inc. and its clients. Key points include:
- Clients must agree to the terms of this agreement and any future changes made without notification.
- DeVore will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide 24/7 dedicated server services but cannot guarantee continuous availability.
- Clients are responsible for server content and compliance with all laws. DeVore may remove content that violates its policies.
- Additional terms cover IP address usage, prohibited server uses, security, third party software, and limitations of liability. Fees may apply for optional assisted server services.
This document summarizes the services offered by a technology company to help businesses with their technology needs. It discusses web design/development, hosting, co-location, commercial internet solutions, managed security services, voice services, and how the company's team can help businesses determine where they are and where they need to go with their technology. The company aims to enable businesses to maximize their technology investments and take their next steps in advancing with technology.
This document summarizes the different hosting options for Drupal websites, including shared hosting, virtual private servers (VPS), dedicated servers, content delivery networks (CDN), and cloud hosting. Shared hosting is the most affordable but has limited resources and customization options. VPS and dedicated servers provide more control and flexibility at higher costs. CDNs improve performance for bandwidth-intensive files. Cloud hosting offers scalability through distributed infrastructure but requires ensuring compatibility. The document provides pros and cons of each approach.
To us, inflation is assuredly returning, yet the degree of inflation is unknowable. Why are we so sure inflation will return? It is because for decades that has been the easiest political solution for the debt accumulation of our citizenry and our government. To wit, pay back the debt with “cheaper” dollars.
This document provides an RDA authority record for William T. Fee (1969-), an American librarian and writer. It includes biographical information like places of residence and employment, education history, publications and unpublished works. Key details about Fee's career in libraries and areas of specialty in cataloging and FRBR theory are also provided.
Solving the C20K Problem: PHP Performance and Scalabilitywebhostingguy
This document discusses how to solve the C20K problem of handling 20,000 simultaneous PHP users on a single database server using built-in database mechanisms in PHP. It describes how database resident connection pooling, query change notification, client-side query result caching, scaling with stored procedures, database partitioning, and fast application notification can be used to improve performance and scalability. Configuring these features and case studies demonstrating their effectiveness in achieving the C20K goal are provided.
VMware vSphere is a virtualization platform that allows organizations to virtualize their entire datacenters. It provides efficiency through high hardware utilization, dramatically lowers IT costs, and delivers agility and control. VMware vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions include features for transforming datacenters into cloud computing environments, including capabilities for virtual machine management, availability, resource management, and storage and network services. They are designed for organizations that want to deliver IT as a service and virtualize their entire datacenters.
Virtualization technologies allow IT organizations to consolidate workloads running on multiple operating systems and software stacks and allocate platform resources dynamically to meet specific business and application requirements. Leadership virtualization has become the key technology to efficiently deploy servers in enterprise data centers to drive down costs and become the foundation for server pools and cloud computing technology. Therefore, the performance of this foundation technology is critical for the success of server pools and cloud computing.
This document provides an overview of VMware virtualization technology. It discusses that virtualization involves creating virtual representations of hardware instead of physical ones. It then covers key virtualization concepts like hypervisors, ESXi, vCenter, and how they enable the virtualization of applications, servers, storage and networks. The document also summarizes several key VMware virtualization features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, vSphere DRS and vSphere distributed switches. It explains how these features provide benefits like reduced costs, increased efficiency, agility, scalability, availability and simplified management.
VMware provides virtualization software that allows guest operating systems to run on virtual machines. This makes virtual machines highly portable between physical computers. Administrators can pause, move, or copy virtual machines. Virtualization treats hardware as a pool of resources available on demand. VMware was founded in 1999 and initially developed virtualization in the 1960s for mainframe computers. It offers two types of hypervisors - Type 1 is a bare metal hypervisor directly on hardware while Type 2 is hosted on a traditional operating system. VMware helps enterprises consolidate servers, provision applications quickly, isolate workloads, enable disaster recovery, and reduce costs. Welch's Foods case study showed VMware helped save over $100,000 by migrating servers to
Virtualization abstracts the underlying physical hardware and allows multiple virtual machines to run on the same server. This provides benefits like server consolidation, increased hardware utilization, and improved security. While virtualization works well for most applications, some resource-intensive or real-time applications may have performance limitations in a virtualized environment. Virtualization is now being applied at larger scales through cloud computing, where virtual machines and services can be provisioned on-demand from large-scale data centers.
The document discusses how EMC VPLEX and VMware solutions can reduce downtime by providing shared storage and live migration across data centers. Key points:
1) EMC VPLEX creates distributed virtual volumes that allow the same data to be accessible at two sites separated by up to 10ms.
2) VMware vSphere and HA provide live migration of virtual machines between servers for high availability and maintenance without downtime.
3) Together, VPLEX and VMware allow virtual machines and applications to failover automatically across data centers for greater availability than a single site can provide.
Presentation v mware cloud infrastructure - success in virtualizationsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview of VMware's cloud infrastructure products and capabilities. It discusses VMware's journey to the cloud model, highlighting cost efficiency, quality of service, and business agility. It then covers the key components and features of vSphere 5, including enhanced compute, storage, network, and application services. Specific capabilities like larger virtual machines, storage I/O controls, and the vSphere storage appliance are summarized. The document concludes by emphasizing how vSphere 5 can accelerate virtualization and help customers achieve their cloud goals.
This document discusses considerations for planning Oracle VM 3 server pool deployments for scalability, availability, and reliability. It describes key concepts of Oracle VM 3 including Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and server pools. Server pools group multiple physical servers with shared storage so virtual machines can run on any server and live migrate between servers. The document provides best practices for configuring server pools for high availability, including enabling high availability options, sizing the server pool file system, using live migration, ensuring excess pool capacity, and planning multiple pools for large infrastructures.
White paper: IBM FlashSystems in VMware EnvironmentsthinkASG
Drive performance in VMware environments with IBM FlashSystem. IBM flash storage delivers extreme, scalable performance for virtualized infrastructure.
VMware Infrastructure is evolving into a virtual datacenter operating system (VDC-OS) that aggregates server, storage, and network hardware into shared resources and allocates these efficiently among applications. This provides built-in services like availability, security, and performance scalability to all applications. The VDC-OS allows more efficient consolidation than traditional operating systems and helps address challenges of complex, siloed, and inefficient infrastructures. Key features of the VDC-OS include virtual services for compute, storage, networking, and cloud resources that improve scalability, availability, security and manageability.
VMware vCenter provides centralized management of VMware virtual infrastructures. It allows administrators to control and monitor all aspects of the virtual environment from a single console. Key features include centralized visibility and control over virtual machines, hosts, storage, and networks. vCenter also enables proactive management through features like patch management, energy efficiency controls, high availability, and migration tools. It can scale to manage large environments of up to 1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines.
The EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series provides the highest levels of availability for virtualized IT environments through its new midrange architecture. It features redundant power and cooling, improved fault detection and error correction, and hot-sparing to increase storage array availability. The CX3 also offers the most flexible deployment options for VMware, including iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity, and is the only solution that provides end-to-end quality of service management. It allows for efficient provisioning and information lifecycle management for VMware through technologies like metaLUNs and virtualLUNs.
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
The document discusses Vblock Powered Solution for VMware View, which provides a pre-integrated converged infrastructure from Cisco, EMC, and VMware to enable virtual desktop deployments. It offers modular growth, rapid provisioning and decommissioning of desktops, simplified management, self-curing architecture to ensure performance, and support for thousands of desktops on a single Vblock infrastructure package. The solution aims to address the high costs of traditional desktop deployments and deliver desktops as a managed service through a centralized, private "desktop cloud" infrastructure.
Vineeth Kondapally is an experienced IT professional with expertise in designing, implementing, optimizing, and troubleshooting virtualization and data center technologies. He has over 8 years of experience working with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, and storage solutions. He has certifications in VMware VCP and ITIL. Some of his responsibilities have included automating network and host migrations, hardening ESXi hosts, and migrating over 20 infrastructures to virtual data centers. He is proficient in technologies like vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, HA, DRS, UCS, and storage solutions from EMC, IBM, and others.
This white paper discusses optimizing backup and recovery for VMware Infrastructure using EMC Avamar. It provides an overview of VMware Infrastructure and its components. It then discusses three solutions for backing up virtual machines using Avamar: backing up via the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy server, installing Avamar agents inside each virtual machine, or installing an agent on the ESX server service console. Avamar reduces backup sizes and times through global data deduplication.
The IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System provides several key integrations with VMware vSphere that improve performance and management:
1) It supports VAAI primitives like full copy offload and hardware-assisted locking that improve scalability and reduce host processing.
2) It integrates with vSphere APIs like VASA to provide real-time storage information and alerts to vCenter.
3) It includes a plug-in for vCenter that allows storage provisioning, mapping, replication and snapshot management from within vCenter.
VMware vSphere 4.0 provides infrastructure services including enhanced virtualization capabilities for compute, storage, and networking. It features increased scalability support, availability features like VMware HA and Fault Tolerance, and security improvements such as VMsafe and vShield Zones. The release delivers optimization and automation to reduce costs while improving operational efficiency.
The document discusses the evolution of VMware products from 1999 to present. It outlines key milestones like the introduction of ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and more recent developments like vCloud and the Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC OS). It describes how the VDC OS will aggregate server, storage and network resources and provide built-in services to applications.
Networker integration for optimal performanceMohamed Sohail
In large, modern data centers, integrating multiple products—whether from the same vendor or multiple vendors—to form a stable, consistent workflow is a major challenge. In their award-winning Knowledge Sharing article, Mohamed Sohail and Shareef Bassiouny offer some best practices for integrating NetWorker and different EMC products and present some best practices for the optimum performance of this integration.
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1) File uploads in PHP require configuring php.ini settings like enabling file uploads and setting temporary storage directories with correct permissions.
2) Forms for file uploads need to use POST with multipart/form-data encoding and include file input fields and hidden fields.
3) PHP stores uploaded files in the $_FILES array, including the temporary filename, size, type, and original name, which can then be processed and moved to a permanent location.
Running and Developing Tests with the Apache::Test Frameworkwebhostingguy
The Apache::Test framework allows running and developing tests for Apache modules and products. Key features include:
- Running existing tests through the t/TEST program
- Setting up a new testing environment by installing Apache::Test and generating a Makefile
- Developing new tests by writing Perl scripts that use Apache::Test functions and assert results
- Options for running tests individually, repeatedly without restarts, or in parallel on different ports
This document provides instructions on installing and configuring memcached to improve the performance and scalability of MySQL. Memcached is installed using package managers or by compiling from source. It is configured to listen on ports and interfaces, allocate memory, and set thread counts. The typical usage involves applications loading data from MySQL into memcached for faster retrieval, with MySQL as the backing store if data is not found in the cache.
The document discusses Novell iChain, a solution for securing web applications and servers. It provides single sign-on, encrypts data as it passes through proxies, and removes direct access to web servers. It authenticates users through LDAP or certificates and authorizes access through rules stored in eDirectory. This simplifies management and security across multiple web server platforms and applications.
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The document discusses different approaches to load balancing web servers to address issues like scaling performance, tolerating failures, and rolling upgrades. It describes three common solutions: redirecting requests through a front-end server; using round-robin DNS to distribute requests; and employing an intelligent load balancer switch that can distribute requests based on server load and detect failures. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages related to ease of implementation, visibility to users, and ability to handle session state. The document also discusses network designs and protocols involved in load balancing, including TCP connection setup and teardown.
The document compares three methods for consolidating SQL Server databases: 1) multiple databases on a single SQL Server instance, 2) a single database on multiple SQL Server instances, and 3) hypervisor-based virtualization. It finds that consolidating multiple databases onto a single instance has the lowest direct costs but reduces security and manageability. Using multiple instances improves security but has higher resource needs. Hypervisor-based virtualization maintains security while enabling features like high availability, but has higher licensing costs. The document aims to help decide which approach best balances these technical and business factors for a given environment.
Mod_perl brings together the Apache web server and Perl programming language. It allows Apache to be configured and extended using Perl, and significantly accelerates dynamic Perl content. Mod_perl supports Apache versions 1.3 and 2.x and integrates Perl at every stage of the request process to provide great flexibility and control over Apache functionality. The mod_perl community provides extensive documentation and quick support responses.
Mod_perl brings together the Apache web server and Perl programming language. It allows Apache to be configured and extended using Perl, and significantly accelerates dynamic Perl content. Mod_perl supports Apache versions 1.3 and 2.x and integrates Perl at every stage of the request process to provide great flexibility and control over Apache functionality. The mod_perl community provides extensive documentation and quick support responses.
The document discusses various aspects of designing an effective website, including analyzing content and target audiences, organizing site structure and navigation, and implementing design elements. The key steps outlined are to analyze content and audience needs, organize the site structure into main sections and subsections, and implement an intuitive navigation system to help users easily find relevant information. Maintaining and optimizing the site over time are also emphasized.
This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell storage systems. It documents best practices for implementing SQL Server 2005 solutions using Dell hardware and software components that have been tested and validated to help ensure successful deployment and optimal performance. The white paper covers storage configuration, network configuration, operating system configuration, and SQL Server configuration recommendations.
1. The document discusses the evolution of business models for IT infrastructure from proprietary systems within individual companies to more open standards and shared infrastructure leveraging the internet.
2. It describes new service models like client-server computing, web services, and on-demand/utility computing which allow flexible provisioning of computing resources on a needs basis.
3. Managing diverse IT infrastructures requires considerations around outsourcing non-core functions, developing service level agreements, managing legacy systems, and aligning infrastructure capabilities to business strategy through appropriate investment.
The document discusses different types of websites that can be created for business purposes including traditional, blog-based, and group/network sites. It provides information on setting up each type of site for free or at low cost using online tools or designers, and how to add features like domains, payment systems, and linking domains to sites. Options for free and cheap site creation using tools like Google Sites are demonstrated.
This document outlines Saint Louis University's strategy for improving power management of IT equipment to reduce costs and environmental impact. Key points include:
1) SLU aims to standardize power-optimized default settings on all managed PCs and laptops through automated software and establish policies around exceptions and existing devices.
2) Potential savings are estimated from generational improvements in computer hardware and adopting lower-power modes like sleep versus screensavers.
3) The strategy also involves consolidating servers, enabling energy-efficient settings on printers and other electronics, and establishing institutional goals around student computer energy use.
Excel and SQL Quick Tricks for Merchandiserswebhostingguy
This document provides instructions for using Microsoft SQL and Excel to extract data from a SmartSite SQL database, manipulate it in Excel using functions, and update the SQL tables with the modified data to streamline content work. It covers connecting to and querying SQL databases, common Excel functions for editing data, and steps for importing an Excel file into a SQL table to update information. Examples of specific SQL queries and Excel functions are provided along with a scenario walking through the full process.
The document discusses various topics related to virtualization including drivers for virtualization, practical applications, definitions of terms like virtualization and paravirtualization, and tools like Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft virtualization products. It provides information on installing and configuring Xen on SuSE Linux, discusses security and auditing considerations for Xen, and demonstrates Xen functionality.
The document discusses strategies for converting low-value hosting clients into high-value customers by marketing additional services. It recommends continuously marketing to clients through email, forums, blogs and surveys to promote add-on services like collaboration tools, applications, and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings which can significantly increase revenue per client. Measuring marketing campaigns and conversions is key to optimizing efforts to up-sell existing clients.
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The document discusses WebMapping Solutions and their products and services. It summarizes their middleware and mapping tools like MapBroker, Generic GUI Builder, and MapOrganiser. MapBroker powers many of their applications. Their products allow users to build custom web mapping applications and manage both geographic and non-geographic data in a single view. Their services include publishing data online, application development, and strategic consulting. Some examples of government and organization clients are listed.
This document provides an overview and guide for using HSPcomplete, a hosting automation solution that allows hosting service providers to manage infrastructure, billing, sales channels, and e-commerce through a single system. It describes HSPcomplete's advantages like integrated billing and credit card processing, virtual private server management, and domain registration. Hardware, software, and user requirements for HSPcomplete deployment are also outlined.