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Architecture
» HP reference configuration for BladeSystem: BL495c with Flex-10 and VMware View
Updated: 2009-03-04
Reviewed: 2009-03-04
This paper presents a reference configuration for implementing VMware View as a desktop replacement strategy, utilizing an HP ProLiant BL495c server blade with Virtual Connect Flex-10 flexible networking adapters, and a StorageWorks EVA4400 array.


» Using HP Virtual Connect on HP BladeSystem c-Class with VMware Infrastructure 3.5
Updated: 2008-06-12
Reviewed: 2008-06-12
This white paper demonstrates the benefits of using HP Virtual Connect with VMware Infrastructure in an HP BladeSystem environment. It describes scenarios to show the use of Virtual Connect with VMware ESX 3.5.  


» VMware Infrastructure 3, architecture
Updated: 2007-11-13
Reviewed: 2007-11-13
This white paper provides a complete overview of how VMware Infrastructure works, including sections on Architecture, Resource Virtualization, Network Considerations and Best Practices. VMware VirtualCenter is also reviewed.


» VMware ESX Server: A comprehensive guide to how ESX virtualizes HP ProLiant servers
Updated: 2007-11-13
Reviewed: 2007-11-13

This white paper provides a complete overview of how VMware Infrastructure works, including sections on Architecture, Resource Virtualization, Network Considerations and Best Practices. VMware VirtualCenter is also reviewed.



» HP reference configuration for virtualization: HP ProLiant c-Class half-height servers and VMware Infrastructure 3
Updated: 2007-02-21
Reviewed: 2007-02-21
This document shows the reference configuration for HP c-Class BladeSystem running VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 in a redundant, rapidly recoverable and highly available configuration.

Backup and Restore
» Data Protection for VMware and Application Data in Mission Critical Environments - HP StorageWorks and HP Software Division
Updated: 2008-09-30
Reviewed: 2008-09-30
This document explores HP backup and recovery solutions in a VMware environment.


» HP StorageWorks EBS Solutions guide for VMware Consolidated Backup
Updated: 2007-07-19
Reviewed: 2007-07-19
This white paper provides technical information and best practices for planning or deploying VMware Consolidated Backup with HP StorageWorks tape libraries

Best practices
» VMware Infrastructure 3.x, HP StorageWorks best practices
Updated: 2009-12-17
Reviewed: 2009-12-17
To help you optimize storage in your virtualized environment, HP and VMware share their knowledge of best practices for running VMware ESX Server with HP StorageWorks arrays.


» Best practices for deploying the HP XP24000 Disk Array with VMware vSphere 4
Updated: 2009-11-26
Reviewed: 2009-11-26
This is a best practices white paper for the HP XP24000 Disk Array when used with VMware vSphere 4. This paper covers performance and capacity in the areas of multipathing, LUSE, Thin Provisioning, XP24000 array architecture, and queue depth.


» Configuration best practices for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family and VMware vSphere 4
Updated: 2009-11-24
Reviewed: 2009-11-24
The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), combined with StorageWorks Command View EVA software and VMware vSphere 4, provides a comprehensive solution designed to simplify management and maximize performance for VMware infrastructures.


» Running VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions
Updated: 2009-11-22
Reviewed: 2009-11-22
This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.


» Best Practices for the HP EVA Array using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Updated: 2009-08-27
Reviewed: 2009-08-27
This paper describes best practices to plan, setup, deploy, and operate a remote copy infrastructure using SRM in conjunction with HP StorageWorks CA EVA Software and the HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter.


» Enabling VMware Enhanced VMotion Compatibility on HP ProLiant servers
Updated: 2009-04-30
Reviewed: 2009-04-30
This paper describes VMware Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) requirements, and lists HP ProLiant servers that can participate in an EVC cluster.


» Planning and deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on HP hardware 
Updated: 2008-11-21
Reviewed: 2008-11-21
This document describes the processes involved in implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) proof-of-concept (POC). Planning, design, architecture, and troubleshooting are discussed. Additionally, environmental considerations are examined.


» Desktop virtualization: Implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with HP
Updated: 2008-03-27
Reviewed: 2008-03-27
HP offers a broad range of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions designed to take the guesswork out of configuring virtual desktops. This paper explores decision making points, the overall solution and puts it in the proper context for IT decision makers.


» VMware Infrastructure 3, planning
Updated: 2007-11-13
Reviewed: 2007-11-13

This white paper provides guidance on planning a VMware Infrastructure environment based on HP server, storage, and management products.  This is the third in a series of documents on planning, deploying, and operating an Adaptive Enterprise based on VMware Infrastructure and HP technologies.



» Planning a VMware Virtual Infrastructure with HP ProLiant servers, storage, and management
Updated: 2007-11-13
Reviewed: 2007-11-13

This white paper provides guidance on planning a VMware Infrastructure environment based on HP server, storage, and management products.  This is the third in a series of documents on planning, deploying, and operating an Adaptive Enterprise based on VMware Infrastructure and HP technologies.



» Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 mailbox roles on VMware Infrastructure 3 using HP ProLiant servers
Updated: 2007-11-07
Reviewed: 2007-11-07
In this white paper, a series of mailbox building blocks were tested using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition. The building blocks were used to measure performance of a virtualized mailbox server role using VMware Infrastructure 3, running on an HP ProLiant DL580 G4 serve


» HP reference configuration for virtualization – HP ProLiant BL685c server and VMware Infrastructure 3
Updated: 2007-04-13
Reviewed: 2007-04-13
Virtualization has rapidly changed from an emerging technology to a datacenter stalwart capable of hosting mission-critical applications and providing levels of redundancy and recovery that were once impossible or cost prohibitive with industry standard platforms. This document graphically represents an enterprise reference configuration for HP c-Class BladeSystem running VMware Infrastructure 3 in the most redundant; rapidly recoverable and highly available configuration. Solutions utilizing HP c-Class BladeSystem can be sized to match any environment.


» HP reference configuration for virtualization – HP ProLiant BL480c server and VMware Infrastructure 3
Updated: 2007-04-13
Reviewed: 2007-04-13
Virtualization has rapidly changed from an emerging technology to a datacenter stalwart capable of hosting mission-critical applications and providing levels of redundancy and recovery that were once impossible or cost prohibitive with industry standard platforms. This document graphically represent an enterprise reference configuration for HP c-Class BladeSystem running VMware Infrastructure 3 in the most redundant; rapidly recoverable and highly available configuration. Solutions utilizing HP c-Class BladeSystem can be sized to match any environment.

Disaster recovery
» HP Data Protector 6.1 software VMware Integration Installation Best Practice
Updated: 2009-06-10
Reviewed: 2009-06-10
This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways


» Cost effective disaster recovery for SMBs with HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure and VMware
Updated: 2008-04-11
Reviewed: 2008-04-11
This paper highlights two scenarios to protect a VMware server environment, using an HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure replication technique that creates a “real time” copy of your virtualized server data.


» Disaster recovery solutions for HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System with HP Storage Mirroring 4.5 for VMware Infrastructure 3
Updated: 2008-04-16
Reviewed: 2008-04-16
This document describes how HP StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage System and HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring (SWSM) replication technology can be utilized as a disaster-tolerant solution for a VMware ESX Server.


» HP disaster tolerant solutions using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment
Updated: 2008-04-14
Reviewed: 2008-04-14
This paper describes two deployment types of a VMware tolerant solution, based on coupling key VMware features with disaster tolerance functionality of HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. The first solution is most suitable for a campus-wide disaster tolerant implementation and the other is suitable for metropolitan/geographically separated areas.

Installation
» Insight Manager agents for VMware ESX Server
Updated: 2004-05-12
Reviewed: 2004-05-17
HP Insight Management agents help IT administrators rapidly respond to potential and actual system failures, increase system stability, reduce troubleshooting complexity, and minimize downtime by providing predictive fault management.


» VMware Infrastructure 3, deployment

Updated: 2007-11-13
Reviewed: 2007-11-13

This white paper provides guidance on planning the deployment  of a VMware Infrastructure environment based on HP server, storage, and management products.  This is the second in a series of documents on the planning, deployment, and operation of an Adaptive Infrastructure based on VMware Infrastructure and HP technologies.



» Deploying a VMware Virtual Infrastructure with HP ProLiant servers, storage, and management
Updated: 2007-11-12
Reviewed: 2007-11-12

This white paper provides guidance on planning the deployment  of a VMware Infrastructure environment based on HP server, storage, and management products.  This is the second in a series of documents on the planning, deployment, and operation of an Adaptive Infrastructure based on VMware Infrastructure and HP technologies.


Management
» Managing and operating a VMware Virtual Infrastructure with HP ProLiant servers, storage, and management
Updated: 2007-11-14
Reviewed: 2007-11-14

This white paper contains operations and management information to help customers effectively plan a VMware Infrastructure running on HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks storage solutions.



» VMware Infrastructure 3, operations
Updated: 2007-11-14
Reviewed: 2007-11-14

This white paper contains operations and management information to help customers effectively plan a VMware Infrastructure running on HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks storage solutions.



Performance and Scalability
» Performance brief for IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 with VMware ESX 4.0 on HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server
Updated: 2010-01-12
Reviewed: 2010-01-12
This paper compares the performance of virtual and physical servers running IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server and VMware ESX 4.0 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.


» Aligning VMware 3.5 VMFS and guest file system partitions running on HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
Updated: 2009-02-26
Reviewed: 2009-02-26
This document presents the test and validation results for aligned versus unaligned VMware VMFS partitions on an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array.


» Baseline performance characterization for HP entry-level storage for VMware Infrastructure 3
Updated: 2009-02-26
Reviewed: 200902-26
Performance characterization of HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays and All-in-One storage systems with VMware ESX 3.5 using single and multiple virtual machines, and comparison between RAID 5 and RAID 1+0 for random and sequential data.

Sizing & Configuration
» HP reference configuration for virtualization - HP ProLiant BL490c G6 servers and VMware vSphere 4
Updated: 2009-11-26
Reviewed: 2009-11-26
This paper discusses deployment of an HP ProLiant BL490c G6, an Intel-based 2-socket half-height blade server, in an architecture that follows both HP and VMware best practices for maximum data and network redundancy.


» HP reference configuration for virtualization - HP ProLiant BL495c G6 servers and VMware vSphere 4
Updated: 2009-11-26
Reviewed: 2009-11-26
This paper discusses deployment of the HP ProLiant BL495c G6, an AMD Opteron-based 2-socket half-height blade server, in an architecture that follows both HP and VMware best practices for maximum data and network redundancy.


» HP ProLiant server sizer for VMware ESX Server
Updated: 2009-10-21
Reviewed: 2009-10-21
This is an automated tool that assists the user with the size and scope of a server environment supporting VMware. The sizing information and algorithms have been developed using testing and performance data on HP Servers running the VMware ESX Server.


» Sizing guide for SAP and VMware ESX Server running on HP ProLiant x86-64 platforms
Updated: 2008-08-04
Reviewed: 2008-08-04
This document presents a set of guidelines for sizing HP ProLiant x86-64 servers for use with virtualization of SAP solutions using VMware Infrastructure 3.

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