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Understanding Windows PowerShell Functions
This expert e-guide, brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com, offers advice to help you leverage PowerShell and other tools to automate your Hyper-V infrastructure.
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Best Practices for Managing Storage in a Virtual Server Environment
This expert e-guide outlines the top 5 tips for managing storage in a virtual server environment and also divulges a set of best practices for using server virtualization in your storage environment. Read on to learn more.
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Virtual Storage Pros and Cons
This expert e-guide was designed to help you become aware of the bumps in the road that you might come across when implementing storage virtualization. It also outlines the different approaches to storage virtualization and offers suggestions on how to choose the right approach for your environment. Continue reading to learn more.
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Expert Insight into Powershell's Scripting
To fully leverage Microsoft PowerShell, you must be aware of all the benefits this new technology offers. This expert e-guide, brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com provides a deeper understanding of PowerShell and describes various approaches to scripting and Hyper-V management.
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Dell Fluid Data Technology Heals ZGT's Rapid Patient Data Growth Ills
ZGT needed the fl exibility to meet the demands of rapid patient data growth while lowering the cost of scaling its storage infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn how ZGT successfully migrated to a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data.
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Presentation Transcript: Tiered Data Storage
In this presentation transcript, Ashish Nadkarni, Senior Analyst and Consultant at Taneja, explores the three tiers that are typically the most beneficial for SMBs: primary, secondary, and tape.
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Presentation Transcript: How to Build an Efficient Data Storage Environment
In this presentation transcript, George Crump, lead analyst at Storage Switzerland, discusses how to build an efficient data storage environment.
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Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN & Citrix XenDesktop 1,000 Desktop Reference Architecture
Dell tested a sample of 1,000 virtual desktops and simulated real-world workloads using a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop VDI environment with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 as the hypervisor.
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E-Guide: Virtualization management for streamlined consolidation and improved disaster recovery
Inside this expert e-guide, learn how automation tools simplify the virtualization management process and can aid in both data center consolidation and disaster recovery.
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Planning for Disaster Recovery in a Health Care Setting
This Eguide will help health care providers create and implement an effective disaster recovery plan.
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Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Automated Disaster Recovery with Virtualization
Disaster recovery (DR) is a critical operation for nearly every organization, and automating the DR process is essential for ensuring it happens continuously and efficiently. Take a look at this presentation transcript to learn how you can leverage virtualization to create an effective DR plan for your entire infrastructure.
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Storage the Backbone of your Virtual Environment
Today's storage technology offers a range of options for virtualization. To make the best choices, be sure assess your needs and consider your business objectives. Review the critical steps to make of the most of your storage so you can get the performance you expect from your virtual infrastructure.
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Proper Virtual Storage Management
Virtual data center managers must keep storage capacity and performance within acceptable parameters as business conditions change. Examine the nuances of virtual storage, including provisioning, performance and remote storage methods and ensure that you allocate the right amount of storage for each application.
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Selecting Storage in a Virtual Data Center
With Fibre Channel, iSCSI and even prepackaged storage-plus-SAN solutions available, figuring out which makes sense for your particular environment can be tricky. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage.
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Special Report: Tiered Data Storage Strategies for Your IT Shop
Check out this SearchStorage.com Special Report to learn everything storage tiering as it outlines four different options including dynamic storage tiering, sub-LUN tiering, data migration in tiering and auto-tiering.
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Virtual Disaster Recovery Solutions for IT Executives
Disaster recovery (DR) shouldn’t be left on the back burner until a natural disaster strikes. In fact, around 80% of network disruptions are a result of IT architecture complexity. But for many organizations, virtualization is an economical DR solution. This e-guide addresses the benefits of virtual disaster recovery.
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Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN & Vmware View 1,000 Desktop Reference Architecture
An efficient storage solution is integral to a successful VDI implementation. With a Fluid Data architecture and integrated software features such as Automated Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Continuous Snapshots and Remote Replication, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN proves to be a highly effective storage option for VMware View.
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Efficient Data Storage: A Guide for Storage Managers
This SearchStorage.com Special Report features an editorial piece from storage guru Rich Castagna about backup technologies today that contribute to achieving tremendous storage efficiency in your IT infrastructure.
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The Expanding Tiered Storage Model
This tutorial discusses the expanding tiered storage model and the additional paybacks you can see from adding SSDs and cloud into the mix.
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Choosing the Best Virtual Server Storage: A Tutorial
Virtual implementation comes with a caveat: You must choose the right storage for your virtual server environment – which involves a few careful considerations and steps. This tutorial will walk you through these considerations and also discusses different storage options for your virtual environment.
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CIO’s Guide for Managing Virtual Environments
This e-guide provides a checklist of deployment concerns, along with strategy benchmarks for effective storage and data center virtualization. Gain a high-level virtual environment framework for improved efficiency and data management, seamless migrations, and immediate ROI.
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Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization
This tutorial from SearchStorage.com explores different backup tools that can improve the efficiency and utilization of your IT infrastructure by getting the most out of your storage capacity. Backup methods discussed in this tutorial include SRM tools, tiered storage models, classification and migration tools, thin provisioning and more.
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Presentation Transcript: Dell Compellent and Microsoft Integration: Automating and creating efficiency for the dynamic data center
Dell Compellent storage virtualization can provide the perfect complement to Hyper-V environments. Learn how a PowerShell command set, thin provisioning, free space recovery and VSS integration combine with Windows Server 2008 R2 to deliver a new level of automation and efficiency.
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Optimize VMware Environments with the Smartest Virtualized Storage
Data center virtualization not only consolidates IT resources and boosts efficiency, but increases flexibility, performance and availability. By combining storage virtualization by Compellent with server virtualization by VMware, users know their data center will operate efficiently today and adapt to change tomorrow.
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Planning for virtualized disaster recovery in a health care setting
Server virtualization has proved to be an advantageous in disaster recovery situations because if physical servers have been destroyed, it’s easy to restore backups to virtual hardware. Learn how healthcare facilities can benefit from adding server virtualization to disaster recovery plans, while maintaining compliance.