Monitoring Business Critical Applications with VMware vCenter Operations Manager
The VMware BCA team recently worked with the vCOps gurus to produce the whitepaper “Monitoring Business Critical…
Estimating Availability of SAP on ESXi Clusters – Examples
This is a follow up to the blog I posted in Jan 2013 which identified a generic…
Windows Server 2012 VM-Generation ID Support in vSphere
Update 1/25/2013: The vSphere versions required for VM-Generation ID support have been updated below. Active Directory…
Formula to Determine Availability of SAP running on an ESXi Cluster
“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out…
50 Partners To Help You Virtualize Business Critical Applications
VMware Partners have the option to complete extra coursework to become VBCA Competent. There are many partners…
Organizational Best Practices for Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
When embarking on your virtualization journey, keep these key organizational best practices in mind. Where to…
When to use Lock Pages in Memory with SQL Server
Granting the Lock Pages in Memory user right to the SQL Server service account prevents SQL…
Events That Trigger Virtualization of Business Critical Applications
You cannot afford for business critical applications in your datacenter to go down just to upgrade…
Driving Down Database TCO with VMware Data Director and SAP-Sybase ASE
A recent IDC study concluded SAP-Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) has the lowest total cost of…
Support Statements for Running Business Critical Applications on vSphere
As the industry standard for virtualization, vSphere has received strong ISV support from 18,000 ISVs, including support…
Update on Virtualizing Hadoop
Hadoop is a modern application with features such as consolidation of jobs and HA that overlap…
Update on Virtualizing Java
Whether a custom Java application or third-party vendor application, all virtualize relatively easily. Often our customers notice…
Update on Virtualizing Sharepoint
Because SharePoint encourages rapid growth and “viral” proliferation, user goals may conflict with the ability of…
Adding “Database-Awareness” to VMware vSphere with vFabric Data Director
This section of the VMware website is currently unavailable while we make important user improvements and…
SAP HANA on VMware vSphere
SAP announced today that VMware vSphere is now supported and is the preferred way to virtualize…
Update on Virtualizing SAP
SAP and VMware are collaborating to provide customers with modern scalable, flexible infrastructure solutions with automated management…
Update on Virtualizing SQL
SQL is one of the most widely deployed database platforms in the world, with many organizations…
Update on Virtualizing Oracle
There are no issues with virtualizing Oracle, however customers are sometimes given information by Oracle that…
Update on Virtualizing Exchange
Email has become one of the most critical applications in an organization’s IT infrastructure. Organizations increasingly rely…
Benefit 7: Lowest App Cost of Ownership with vSphere 5
This post is part of the 7-part series Seven Top Benefits of Virtualizing Business Critical Applications….
Benefit 6: Monster App Scalability with vSphere 5
This post is part of the 7-part series Seven Top Benefits of Virtualizing Business Critical Applications….