Using multitiered arrays to optimize application performance By Andrew Gilman and Suresh Jasrasaria Organizations have always had “hot” information that is accessed more frequently than other data. Ensuring fast access for this high-demand information has traditionally required inefficient processes such as making multiple physical copies to allow several people to view the data at the [...]
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Along with general improvements, Dell’s 5.0.2 firmware for EqualLogic PS-series iSCSI SANs kicks virtualization deployments into high gear Article continues here: http://bit.ly/bMrf5Q
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InfoWorld – Dell EqualLogic PS-series SANs have long led the iSCSI pack with excellent performance, good management tools, 10G Ethernet support, and the ability to scale capacity and I/O simultaneously by stacking together appliances. The latest addition to the line offers more reasons to take a close look, with a high-performance solid-state drive (SSD) array, [...]
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With the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter installed in your VMware environment, you can: Get deep-level detail from Dell servers for inventory, monitoring and alerting— all from within vCenter Deploy BIOS and firmware updates to Dell servers from within vCenter Build hardware and hypervisor profiles and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal [...]
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The goal of this paper is to present the results of a series of Exchange 2010 storage I/O performance tests conducted by Dell Labs, and provide storage sizing guidance and best practices based on those results for designing and running Microsoft® Exchange 2010 hosted by VMware vSphere 4.1 running on Dell PowerEdge blade servers and [...]
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The goal of this paper is to present the results of Oracle I/O performance tests conducted by Dell Labs, and provide sizing guidelines and best practices based on those results for running Oracle pure OLTP workloads on Dell PowerEdge™ Servers and Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs. The best practices and deployment models presented in this [...]
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The goal of this paper is to describe best practices for deploying Decision Support System (DSS) or Data Warehousing (DW) solutions based on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 using Dell™ EqualLogic™ storage. DSS solutions require scalable storage platforms that offer high levels of performance and capacity. Deploying the storage platform using validated best practices and recommended [...]
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This is a Blog post by Frank Berry Storage: A Dell Growth Engine The week long Dell EqualLogic User Conference in sunny San Diego wrapped up Friday, October 8th. I left the conference with a belief that storage will play a bigger role in Dell’s future success. The following are the top ten reasons why [...]
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Jonathan Franconi, Twitter: @s1xth, attended the first and now the second National EqualLogic User Conference. You will find great recaps of specific sessions and the conference overall here: http://bit.ly/bjQAYZ Michael Ellerbeck, Twitter: @mellerbeck, also attended both conferences and has shared his feedback here: http://bit.ly/9GemS6 This is great stuff!
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