This page provides a list of Dell-produced white papers and collateral on virtualization in chronological order. Please add your Dell-produced papers to this list. Add this page to your watchlist to be notified when new white papers are released.In addition, Dell Virtualization Engineering white papers describing best practice, support matrix and business ready configurations are highlighted at Virtualization -> Dell Virtualization Engineering White Papers. Or you can click here.
Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage by Anthony FernandezCompetitive Power Savings with VMware Consolidation on Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers by Scott Hanson
Deploying Citrix XenServer 5.0 with Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage by Dell EqualLogic and Citrix Performance of Hyper-V on R900 with Intel Six-Core Processorsby Todd MuirheadA Performance Characterization of SQL Server 2005 VMs on PowerEdge Servers Running ESX Server 3.5by Todd Muirhead
VMotion and VMware HA with Exchange Server 2007 by Todd Muirhead and Kong Yang Virtualizing Exchange Server 2007 on ESX 3 by Todd Muirhead and Kong YangOverview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architectureby Dell Virtualization Solutions EngineeringCompetitive Power Savings with VMware Consolidation on Dell PowerEdge 2950 Serversby Scott HansonMicrosoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3VMware HA/DRS Solution Scenarios on Dell PowerEdge Servers (193KB) by Scott Hanson VMware HA/DRS Demonstration of Planned Maintenance by Scott Hanson VMware HA Demonstration of an Unplanned Outage by Scott Hanson VMware DRS Demonstration of Dynamic VM Migration with Spikes in Workload by Scott Hanson Proactive Maintenance and Power Management with Dell OpenManage and VMware Virtualization by Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran and Puneet DhawanVMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server(185 KB) by Dave Jaffe, Todd Muirhead and Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran Power Comparison of Dell PowerEdge 2950 using Intel X5355 and E5345 Quad Core Xeon Processors (60 KB) by Scott Hanson and Todd Muirhead VMware Vmotion Demonstration Using Dell PowerEdge Servers (3MB) by Scott Hanson Creating Fault-Tolerant Xen Virtualization at the Network Adapter Layer by Scott Collier and Brian Gautreau Best Practices for Migrating to VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Servers by Todd Muirhead Performance Scaling with Quad-Core Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (723KB) by Todd Muirhead
Advantages of Dell PowerEdge 2950 Two Socket Servers Over Hewlett-Packard Proliant DL 585 G2 Four Socket Servers for Virtualization by Todd Muirhead, Dave Jaffe, and Terry Schroeder Performance Scaling with Quad-Core Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (723KB) by Todd Muirhead Live Migration with Xen Virtualization Software by David Schmidt and Puneet Dhawan SQL Server 2005 Virtualization in the Dell Scalable Enterprise(1.07MB) by Todd MuirheadScalable Enterprise Implementation Study: How Dell IT Uses Virtualization to Enable Test and Development(1.29MB) by Todd Muirhead; Rick Merino; Dave Jaffe, Ph.D.; and Jon MercadoVMware ESX Server Performance on Dual-Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers(352KB) by Todd Muirhead and Dave Jaffe
VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server(448KB) by Dave Jaffe, Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran, and Todd MuirheadAn Overview of Xen Virtualization by Tim Abels, Puneet Dhawan, and Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran