This is a list of Dell produced whitepapers and collateral on virtualization in chronological order. Please add your Dell produced papers to this list. Add this page to your watchlist to be notified when new whitepapers are released.

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Competitive Power Savings with VMware Consolidation on Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers
By Scott Hanson

2008

A Performance Characterization of SQL Server 2005 VMs on PowerEdge Servers Running ESX Server 3.5
by Todd Muirhead

2007

VMotion and VMware HA with Exchange Server 2007
by Todd Muirhead and Kong Yang

Virtualizing Exchange Server 2007 on ESX 3
by Todd Muirhead and Kong Yang

Overview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture
By Dell Virtualization Solutions Engineering

Competitive Power Savings with VMware Consolidation on Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers
By Scott Hanson

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3


VMware HA/DRS Solution Scenarios on Dell PowerEdge Servers (193KB)
By Scott Hanson

VMware HA/DRS Demonstration of Planned Maintenance
By Scott Hanson

VMware HA Demonstration of an Unplanned Outage
By Scott Hanson

VMware DRS Demonstration of Dynamic VM Migration with Spikes in Workload
By Scott Hanson

Proactive Maintenance and Power Management with Dell OpenManage and VMware Virtualization
By Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran and Puneet Dhawan

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server(185 KB)
By Dave Jaffe, Todd Muirhead and Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran

Power Comparison of Dell PowerEdge 2950 using Intel X5355 and E5345 Quad Core Xeon Processors (60 KB)
By Scott Hanson and Todd Muirhead

VMware Vmotion Demonstration Using Dell PowerEdge Servers (3MB)
By Scott Hanson

Creating Fault-Tolerant Xen Virtualization at the Network Adapter Layer
By Scott Collier and Brian Gautreau

Best Practices for Migrating to VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Servers
By Todd Muirhead

Performance Scaling with Quad-Core Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (723KB)
By Todd Muirhead

2006

Advantages of Dell PowerEdge 2950 Two Socket Servers Over Hewlett-Packard Proliant DL 585 G2 Four Socket Servers for Virtualization
By Todd Muirhead, Dave Jaffe, and Terry Schroeder

Performance Scaling with Quad-Core Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (723KB)
By Todd Muirhead

Live Migration with Xen Virtualization Software
By David Schmidt and Puneet Dhawan

SQL Server 2005 Virtualization in the Dell Scalable Enterprise(1.07MB)
By Todd Muirhead

Scalable Enterprise Implementation Study: How Dell IT Uses Virtualization to Enable Test and Development(1.29MB)
By Todd Muirhead; Rick Merino; Dave Jaffe, Ph.D.; and Jon Mercado

VMware ESX Server Performance on Dual-Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers(352KB)
By Todd Muirhead and Dave Jaffe

2005

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server(448KB)
By Dave Jaffe, Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran, and Todd Muirhead

An Overview of Xen Virtualization
By Tim Abels, Puneet Dhawan, and Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran