Proactive Monitoring Helps Maximize ROI and Maintain High VM Performance

In a virtualized environment, applications compete for shared, dynamic infrastructure resources such as storage, CPU and memory. This resource sharing makes capacity management in a virtual environment an order of magnitude more complex than in a purely physical environment. As a result, proactive capacity management is critical as once problems manifest themselves, they can be difficult to…

The actual standarization for DCs documents is big enough to drive everyone to confusion.

As consulting proffesional I tryed to order my ideas, pls check the chart and tell me if I am missing some document worth to take in consideration

roberto sánchez,RCDD

México

robertsanchez@prodigy.net.mx

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Virtualizing users is important in today's enterprise. By virtualizing the user and treating it as a separate layer on top of the Operating System and the Application Layers, the user can now move seamlessly throughout an environment, across any delivery mechanism, and cross Operating System. Allowing for a way to centrally manage the entire environment from a single location, as well as enabling administrators to tailor policy based on the context of their users such as assessing device or…

Data Center Infrastructure Management tools are showing signs of answering the call of CIOs for better data center controls

Migration is not going to happen overnight and it’s going to require simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 until both sides of the equation are ready. 



Making the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is not a task anyone with any significant investment in infrastructure wants to undertake. The reliance on IP addresses of infrastructure to control, secure, route, and track everything from simple network housekeeping to complying with complex governmental regulations makes it…

Drobo is Big Storage in a Small Box. Physically, a single Drobo looks like a black rectangular box with LED capacity and disk status indicators on the front, with 4 to 12 disk-drive bays, and various connectivity options (iSCSI, Ethernet / File Sharing, USB 3.0, eSATA, Firewire).



The Drobo allows any combination of types, sizes, or speeds of hard drives to be placed in some or all of the drive bays, at any time (hot-swapping is possible), where they form a larger logical redundant…

Common helpdesk challenges in today's enterprise:



Mobile users. The help desk technician still needs to be able to support users who are on-the-go. As long as there is an internet connection, the right support tool gives the technician access and the ability to help the user. 



"Drive-by's" - Chance encounters between end-users and help desk technicians during which the end user asks for support. An organized approach to support is needed and results in…