Virtualization has helped improve hardware utilization tremendously, but its full potential has not yet been realized. Virtualization technologies all share and virtualize a single physical port of the network adapter through software for the I/O needs of the virtual machines. All of that software battles to make I/O decisions for the virtual machines, which causes traffic jams, which slow the I/O performance and limit the number of virtual machines a physical server can run. To address this issue
There is a tree twisting thunderstorm raging outside and you know enough to grab a flashlight and candle just in case the power goes out. What’s the worst thing that could happen? You miss a rerun episode of Mad Men? Ah, but wait, isn’t the online sale is still going on at work through mid-night? Oh crud, what if the servers go down? Will you lose all the credit card transactions in process? There is no need to sweat a power outage when your servers and storage are backed up with an uninterruptible
One challenge and area of angst we continue to hear from our customers is around virtualizing tier-1 applications, specifically Microsoft SQL and Exchange. Because fewer physical servers running more virtual machines (VMs) are increasingly being used to support their tier-1 applications, scalability and uptime requirements for virtual server infrastructures have become even more critical. Assuring optimal performance and protection levels for these applications within the virtual data center is challenging
If you want to be the first on the block to do live migration using Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2, Dell can help you get there. Dell now offers support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 , the newest release in the Windows family of enterprise operating systems. This includes the release of Dell drivers, systems management capability and supporting documents to help you get up and running quickly. Any software migration can be nerve wracking, so Dell has done the heavy lifting to take the
Just like the certainties of death and taxes, we can count on processor companies to continually introduce chips with technology enhancements to meet the demands of data centers. This week our friends at AMD are introducing new members of the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family (code named Istanbul) that amp up performance while improving power-efficiency. Next month Dell will update three PowerEdge blade servers, the M605, M805 and M905, and three PowerEdge rack servers, the 2970, R805
In the 2002 movie, Minority Report , Police Chief John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise, manipulates data and images on massive computer screens to prevent crimes before they happen in the "pre-crime" department. Pretty cool concept and compelling visuals. Imagine if you could enter a virtual data center and manipulate 3D images to create the most power-efficient, cost effective data center for your business. Now you can do it, and its not science fiction with an interactive Web experience