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I/O Unification in Virtualized Servers: It’s Not Just Throughput and Purchase Cost
This highly technical article discusses challenges and possible solutions using 10GigE NICs and InfiniBand HCAs as consolidated I/O options in a VMware ESX Server 3.5 environment. The author outlines the various I/O options and identifies their pros and cons.
Sujal Das, Senior Director, Software Product Management, Mellanox Technologies

Paradigm Junkies Rejoice! Predictive Failure HA is Here!
Learn how predictive failure HA can change failure mitigation from a reactive event under vendor control to a proactive event under engineering control.
Kevin Wilcox, Director, Technology and Research, Fiserv Corp.

A Few Books to Guide You Through “The Hall of Mirrors”
We will review some excellent books available to guide you through the intricacies of virtualization, whether you are already a sophisticated user or just beginning to explore the potential of virtualization.
Jim Justen, NaSPA member

Strategies for Building and Protecting Virtual Infrastructure
Have you thought about the glue that will hold your virtual infrastructure all together? This article presents strategies on how to build and protect your infrastructure and make it truly dynamic.
Brace Rennels, CBCP, Project Manager, Double-Take Software

Managing Performance in Your Virtualized Data Center: What Your Virtual Server Management Tool Isn’t Telling You
By deploying both virtualized server management and cross-domain performance management tools, administrators can efficiently manage, optimize and plan performance and utilization across the datacenter infrastructure.
Mike Matchett, Director, Product Management, Akorri

What You Need to Know About Virtualization Backup and Disaster Recovery
This article emphasizes that disaster recovery and backup plans need to incorporate the technology of virtualization. It also addresses best practices, backup techniques and licensing issues.
Walter Scott, CEO, Acronis

Virtualizing Server Workloads
This article will discuss the characteristics of server workloads in terms of memory utilization, processor utilization, and I/O traffic and introduce the improvements in hardware that are making it possible to virtualize an increasingly wide range of workloads.
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Virtualization Management: Seven Strategies for Avoiding “Motion” Sickness
VMotion sickness, the unending pattern of “whack-a-mole,” where admins seem to endlessly “fix” one guest, only to have to turn to fix another, can be avoided with the seven strategies offered in this article.
Javier Soltero, CEO, Hyperic

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