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VMWare
- DS3500: ESG Lab Validation Report - Mixed Workload Performance with Application Aware Data Management
This ESG lab report explores the capabilities of an IBM System Storage DS3500 Express deployed in a consolidated virtual server environment with a focus on the value of predictably balanced, mixed application performance and application aware storage management plug-ins.
- DS3000/DS4000/DS5000: VMware vCenter Management Installation and User Guide for DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series
- DS3950/DS5020: ESG Lab Validation Report: IBM System Storage DS5020/DS3950 Express and IBM System x3950 M2: Mixed Workload Performance in Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Environments
- DS3950/DS5020: ESG Lab Validation Report: IBM System Storage DS5020/DS3950 Express and IBM BladeCenter HS22: Mixed Workload Performance in Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Environments
- DS4000/DS5000: Disaster Recovery Using IBM Enhanced Remote Mirroring with VMware
- DS4000/DS5000: VMware® Consolidated Backup With Symantec Net Backup 6.5.X on DS4000/5000
- DS5000: Best Practices for Running VMware ESX 3.5 on an IBM® DS5000™ Storage System
- N series: IBM System Storage N series and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage - (NS3428-0) (4.4MB)
Technical white paper - Best-practices
- N series: Deploying VMware in a 4,000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Microsoft Windows Environment on IBM System Storage N series - (NS3725-0) (1.02MB)
Deployment guide using NFS protocol
- N series: Aligning file systems in virtual environments with IBM System Storage N series - (NS3747-0) (711KB)
Technical white paper - Best-practices
- N series: Microsoft Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3 and IBM System Storage N series iSCSI storage (NS3683-0)
Technical white paper - Solution overview and workload characterization
- N series: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager in an N series Environment - (NS3671-1)
Technical white paper - Best-practice installation and configuration
- N series: IBM System Storage N series with Open Systems SnapVault for Protecting Virtual Infrastructure - (NS3653)
Technical white paper - Best-practices guide
- N series: IBM System Storage N series with SnapManager and SharePoint Server 2007 with VMware Virtualization - (NS3675-0)
Technical white paper - Best practices for testing and protection
- N series: Rapid deployment of Oracle Database 11g using VMware Infrastructure and IBM System Storage N series with FlexClone - (NS3646-0)
Technical white paper - An implementation case study
- N series: VMware ESX Server 3.0 on IBM System Storage N series – NS3562–0 (205KB)
Best-practices backup case study
- N series: VMware and IBM System Storage N series with SnapMirror and MetroCluster – NS3606–0 (1.38MB)
High availability and disaster recovery
- N series: Storage Block Alignment with VMware Virtual Infrastructure and IBM System Storage N series – NS3593–0 (896KB)
Technical White Paper – Correctly aligning LUNs and virtual disk files
- N series: Disk-to-Disk Backup in an IBM System Storage N series and VMware Environment (NS3610-0)
Technical white paper - Best practices
- NS3808-0 Technical report: VMware vSphere and ESX 3.5 / Multiprotocol performance comparison using FC, iSCSI and NFS
- SAN Volume Controller: Inter-data center workload mobility and failover with VMware vSphere and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
A stretched IBM SAN Volume Controller configuration in conjunction with VMware vSphere enables transparent VMware vMotion migration and automatic VMware High Availability (HA) failover of virtualized workloads between physical datacenters.
- SONAS: Business continuity for a virtualized environment (489KB)
- SONAS Business Continuity Solution with SONAS Asychronous Replication and VMware vSphere 4.1
- SONAS: Effective implementation of VMware vSphere 4.1 with IBM SONAS
- SONAS: Highly-available and extremely-scalable enterprise virtual infrastructure powered with VMware vSphere and IBM SONAS
- SONAS: Massive scalability and availability for virtual environments (524KB)
Capacity that enhances VMware’s high availability and fault tolerance capabilities
- SONAS Massive Scalability for vSphere 5.0. (314KB)
- SONAS VMware Disk Alignment V1.1
- SONAS with VMware best practices for a virtualized environment
- SONAS: IBM SONAS with VMware vSphere (257KB)
Solution brief: IBM SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage) with VMware ESX Hypervisor
- Storwize V7000: Deploying IBM Storwize V7000 in VMware Environments
- Storwize V7000: Disaster recovery for SAP with VMware Site Recovery Manager on IBM Storwize V7000 storage system
This paper describes the steps how to install and configure a disaster recovery environment using VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1 (SRM) in an existing VMware environment with SAP as the main application. VMware Site Recovery Manager, together with the IBM Storwize V7000 system and the FlashCopy and Metro Mirror function, provide the ability to easily implement a disaster recovery solution for virtualized environments.
- Storwize V7000: Exploring vStorage APIs for Array Integration on IBM Storwize V7000
Support for the VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration has been added in the IBM Storwize V7000 6.2 code release. The VAAI API primitives: hardware-accelerated Block Zero, hardware-assisted Locking, and hardware-accelerated Full Copy enable certain VMware vSphere functions to be offloaded from the vSphere ESX or ESXi host to the VAAI-enabled Storwize V7000. Functions, such as virtual machine disk creation, virtual machine cloning, and VMware Storage VMotion are able to run on the Storwize V7000 storage system, eliminating resource usage on the vSphere ESX or ESXi host, and realizing an increase in performance. This white paper examines the benefits that the vStorage APIs for Array Integration provide for the IBM Storwize V7000.
- Storwize V7000: Implementing disaster recovery solutions with IBM Storwize V7000 and VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Storwize V7000: Managing IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter
- Storwize V7000 Unified with VMware vSphere (761KB)
- Storwize V7000: Real-world Mixed Workload Performance in VMware Environments (1.22MB)
This Enterprise Strategy Group white paper discusses the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test which focused on the real-world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment.
- Storwize V7000: IBM Storwize V7000: For your VMware virtual infrastructure (1.16MB)
Solution brief
- Storwize V7000: Using VMware vSphere and IBM Storwize V7000 as a complete virtualization solution
The intent of this paper is to examine the virtualized environment that IBM Storwize V7000 and VMware vSphere provide. VMware vSphere when combined with the Storwize V7000 provide a complete server and storage virtualization solution in which the infrastructure is dynamic and responsive to ever-changing business needs and requirements.
- Storwize V7000: VMware View 4.5 and IBM Storwize V7000 reference architecture
This Storwize V7000 paper describes a reference VDI solution provided by an IBM Storwize™ V7000 storage system, VMware vSphere 4.1, VMware View 4.5, and VMware View Composer 2.5.
- XIV: Disaster recovery for SAP with VMware Site Recovery Manager on IBM XIV Storage System and IBM BladeCenter HS22
This paper describes the steps required to create a highly available and effective disaster recovery SAP landscape with VMware SRM, including the connection to IBM System storage and the usage of storage functionality during disaster scenarios.
- XIV: IBM XIV Storage System with VMware for Optimized Storage Server Virtualization (950KB)
This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage. It reviews the complementary technologies of the VMware and IBM XIV Storage System environments, while highlighting IBM XIV features that address the different issues. Real-world use cases provided at the end of the document illustrate IBM XIV server-storage virtualization success and benefits. After reading the paper, you will have a clear understanding of the different factors involved in achieving an effective virtual environment and how to solve them using the IBM XIV Storage System.
- XIV: SAP Implementation and Operation in Integrated Environments
The IBM Blue Stack Proof of Concept combines IBM System X, XIV Storage and DB2 on Linux and VMware in providing superior business performance and reduced operational effort in SAP environments.
- XIV: VMware vSphere 5 and IBM XIV Gen3 end-to-end virtualization (6.92MB)
The features of VMware vSphere 5.0 and IBM XIV® Gen3 storage together build a powerful end to end virtualized infrastructure, covering not only servers and storage, but also end-to-end infrastructure management, leading to more-efficient and higherperforming applications.
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