Chapter 1: An Introduction to VMware Virtualization
Chapter 2: Backup and Recovery Methodologies
Chapter 3: Data Recovery in Virtual Environments
You're facing VM sprawl if you're experiencing an uncontrollable increase of unused and unneeded objects in your virtual VMware environment. VM sprawl occurs often in virtual infrastructures because they expand much faster than physical, which can make management a challenge. The growing number of virtualized workloads and applications generate “virtual junk” causing VM sprawl issue. Eventually it can put you at risk of running out of resources.
Getting virtual sprawl under control will help you reallocate and better provision your existing storage, CPU and memory resources between critical production workloads and high-performance, virtualized applications. With proper resource management, you can save money on extra hardware.
This white paper examines how you can avoid potential VM sprawl risks and automate proactive monitoring by using Veeam ONE, a part of Veeam Availability Suite. Veeam ONE will arm you with a list of VM sprawl indicators and explain how you can pick up and configure a handy report kit to detect and eliminate VM sprawl threats in your VMware environment.
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In this e-book, we’ll cover storage basics, storage performance and capacity, forecasting and usage and storage best practices.
For years, IT managers have been seeking a single-pane-of-glass tool that can help them monitor and manage all aspects of their IT infrastructure – from desktops to servers, hardware to application code, and network to storage. But, many fail to achieve this as they do not know how to implement a single-pane-of-glass solution.
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Managing Windows user profiles can be a complex and challenging process. Better profile management is usually sought by organizations looking to reduce Windows login times, accommodate applications that do not adhere to best practice application data storage, and to give users the flexibility to login to any Windows Operating System (OS) and have their profile follow them. Note that additional profile challenges and solutions are covered in a related ProfileUnity whitepaper entitled “User Profile and Environment Management with ProfileUnity.” To efficiently manage the complex challenges of today’s diverse Windows profile environments, Liquidware ProfileUnity exclusively features two user profile technologies that can be used together or separately depending on the use case.
These include:
1. ProfileDisk, a virtual disk based profile that delivers the entire profile as a layer from an attached user VHD or VMDK, and
2. Profile Portability, a file and registry based profile solution that restores files at login, post login, or based on environment triggers.
How to navigate between the trenches
Hybrid IT has moved from buzzword status to reality and organizations are realizing its potential impact. Some aspects of your infrastructure may remain in a traditional setting, while another part runs on cloud infrastructure—causing great complexity. So, what does this mean for you? “A Journey Through Hybrid IT and the Cloud” provides insight on:
In addition to the thought provoking articles about storage silos, data protection, application performance bottlenecks, data fabrics, and the role of hyperconverged infrastructure, the eBook concludes with an original thought leadership section, A Blueprint for Smarter Storage Management: Addressing the Top 3 Challenges Impacting Your Data with Software-Defined Storage, including:• Maintaining data accessibility even in the event of a catastrophic failure• Capacity utilization and scale• Extreme performance to keep up with the rate of data acquisition
eBook topics:• Storage Silos 101: What They Are and How To Manage Them• RPO/RTO and the Impact on Business Continuity• Data Storage 101: How To Determine Business-Critical App Performance Requirements• How Best To Protect and Access Your Company’s Data• Data Fabrics and Their Role in the Storage Hardware Refresh• The Rise of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure• A Blueprint for Smarter Storage Management – Addressing the Top 3 Challenges Impacting Your Data with Software-Defined Storage
Today’s hospitals are benefitting from an explosion of information technologies that is ushering in a new era of healthcare. With these advanced technologies, significantly more data is being generated, from a much wider variety of sources, and at a more frequent pace. All of this data must be stored, shared, and protected.
With data the lifeblood of healthcare, IT departments are challenged to adopt new storage and management strategies to handle the deluge of data. The skyrocketing costs to achieve continuous data availability, cope with exponential data growth, and provide timely data access rank among the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT organizations today.
That is why a growing number of healthcare institutions are deploying DataCore’s software-defined storage platform. Only DataCore enables today’s hospitals and health systems to address mission-critical healthcare IT challenges while maximizing the availability, performance, and utilization of IT resources – allowing them to enhance patient outcomes while keeping costs low. Learn more in this solution brief.
We live in a data-driven world. The quantity of and need for increasing amounts of data will skyrocket in the coming years, and behind it all are databases intended to help organizations maintain the madness. At the same time, the infrastructure that powers these databases is undergoing a massive transformation as organizations seek to simplify complex IT systems to reduce the cost of such systems and to improve the speed of the business.
Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged in recent years as an incredibly powerful way for organizations to rein in data center madness. Adoption of this technology has been explosive—in a good way!—and organizations are enjoying significant operational efficiency and cost benefits to such adoption. How do you forge? Learn more from vExpert, Scott Lowe in this white paper.
Most enterprises underestimate the planning process; they do not spend sufficient time understanding the cloud landscape and the different options available. While there are tools at hand to assist the implementation and the validation phases of the migration, planning is where all the crucial decisions need to be made.
Bad planning will lead to failed migrations. Challenges that enterprises often grapple with include:
HyperCloud Analytics provides intelligence backed by 400+ million benchmarked data-points to enable enterprises to make the right choices for the organization. HyperCloud’s cloud planning framework provides automation for four key stages that enterprises should consider as they plan their migration projects.They get automated instance recommendations and accurate cost forecasts made with careful considerations of their application requirements (bandwidth, storage, security etc). Multiple assessments can be run across the different cloud providers to understand application costs post-migration.Download our whitepaper to learn more about how you can build high-confidence, accurate plans with detailed cloud bills and cost forecasts, while expediting your cloud migrations.
One of the toughest problems facing enterprise IT teams today is troubleshooting slow applications. When a user complains of slowness in application access, all hell breaks loose, and the blame game begins: app owners, developers and IT ops teams enter into endless war room sessions to figure out what went wrong and where. Have you also been in this situation before?
Read this white paper by Larry Dragich, and learn how you can combine and correlate performance insights from the application (code, SQL, logs) and the underlying hardware infrastructure (server, network, virtualization, storage, etc.) in order to: