Technical tips

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Technical tips

With these technical tips, you'll learn how to estimate storage capacity requirements and assign virtual workloads among servers. Our experts delve into what gotchas to watch out for concerning Input/Output performance, backup and disaster recovery; explain how to avoid storage-related bottlenecks, and discuss other specific operational considerations.

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  • Managing storage in virtual environments: Operational considerations

    Tip -  From an operational perspective, implementing server virtualization technologies into a storage solution will present new challenges in several areas. In this tip, Chris Wolf sheds light on those issues and mentions a few companies that are working to...

  • Mitigating storage management pain points in virtual environments

    Tip -  Get the scoop on storage-for-virtualization products from VMware, Symantec, IBM and others. Find out about issues, such as Input/Output (I/O) performance, backup, disaster recovery and managing with virtual machines (VMs).

  • Storage management in virtual environments

    Tip -  Consolidating workloads onto virtual servers can increase performance, but a poorly executed strategy will only augment your storage management woes. This tip helps you keep your strategy on track by outlining how to estimate capacity needs, assign...

  • Setting up shared storage for VMware ESX Server

    Ask the Expert -  Site expert Andrew Kutz answers a user question on creating shared storage in a VMware ESX Server environment.

  • Evaluating virtualized databases

    Tip -  Applied to databases, virtualization can improve performance and minimize storage requirements. This discussion evaluates these benefits as well as the costs of virtualized database environments.

  • Avoiding storage-related bottlenecks in virtualized environments

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    Tip -  Although virtual machines can be managed like physical ones, many factors must be taken into account when designing a storage infrastructure for a virtualized environment. The only way storage managers can avoid storage-related performance bottlenecks...