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Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment: Best Practices and Performance Considerations
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
 | White Paper: | Posted: 23 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2008 | |
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Through a series of test scenarios that are representative of SQL Server application fundamentals, this document provides best practice recommendations on running SQL Server in Windows Hyper-V environment.
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Datacenter Virtualization: Enabling a Dynamic Datacenter with Microsoft Virtualization
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 23 Nov 2009 | |
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This whitepaper examines strategies for moving an organization toward more dynamic IT using datacenter virtualization technologies.
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Managing Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 01 Aug 2009 | |
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Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn how to manage Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Improve Energy Efficiency and Manage Power Consumption with Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. Read this white paper to learn about the new features that deliver real energy savings opportunities for the enterprise.
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Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.
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Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.
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Dell™ Reference Architecture Overview for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a VMware® ESX Server Environment using EqualLogic PS Series Storage
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.
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Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches
sponsored by VM6 Software
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 27 Oct 2009 | |
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This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
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Real-Time Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Double-Take Software UK
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 23 Oct 2009 | |
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To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V host, look to Double-Take for Hyper-V from Double-Take Software to protect your workloads with real-time replication and automated failover for virtualized workloads. Read this white paper for more details.
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Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 13 Oct 2009 | |
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Windows Server® 2008 R2 is the newest Windows Server operating system from Microsoft. Designed to help organizations reduce operating costs and increase efficiencies, Windows Server 2008 R2 provides enhanced management control over resources across the enterprise. Read the top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Power Efficiency and Management in Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, like its predecessor Windows Server 2008, has been designed with energy efficiency in mind. Recent tests found that Windows Server 2008 R2 improved power efficiency by up to 18 percent over Windows Server 2003, out of the box.
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Deploying and Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell Equallogic and Vmware vSphere 4.0 Integrated, Scalable and Cost: Effective cloud-like IT environments for your mission critical applications
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 23 Sep 2009 | |
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Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.
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Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft System Center
sponsored by Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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With the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, organizations have access to new capabilities such as Live Migration and Windows Powershell 2.0 that will reduce the cost of datacenter operations, enhance security and availability, while improving server environment manageability.
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Consolidating Multiple SQL Server 2000 systems using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.
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Consolidate SQL Server 2008 on Dell 4 Socket - Multi-Core Servers - using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers.
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