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Best Practices Guide: Emulex Virtual HBA® Solutions and VMware® ESX Server 3.5 sponsored by Emulex Corporation, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of some of the cases and outlines the steps required to deploy NPIV on ESX Server 3.5. Posted: 03 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| TCO \| Virtualization \| VMware

Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive. Posted: 25 Jan 2010 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SCSI Controllers \| Serial ATA \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure

Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data. Posted: 11 Jun 2010 \| Published: 11 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| LAN

Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. Posted: 29 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI \| Operations Manager \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Network \| Storage Provisioning \| Thin Provisioning

The Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Posted: 12 Jun 2014 \| Published: 13 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Networking

Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you. Posted: 24 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Content Archiving Software \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| RAID \| Regulatory Compliance \| Serial ATA \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Security

Dell/EMC CX4 Exchange Performance sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a high-level look at the features and functionality that make the CX4 an excellent choice for Microsoft Exchange and other electronic mail systems. It examines new features, discusses disaster recovery and VMware integration, and provides a brief example of CX4's performance in Exchange environments. Posted: 05 May 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Email \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Microsoft Exchange \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management

Deploying Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches in Enterprise Data Centers sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches are specifically designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and dramatically simplify network architecture in virtualized data centers. Posted: 13 Dec 2011 \| Published: 13 Dec 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Cloud Computing \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP Networks \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to the investment protection offered between first-generation and second-generation Cisco MDS 9000 Family linecards, supervisor, and chassis. Posted: 01 May 2006 \| Published: 01 Apr 2006 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP SAN \| LAN Switches \| Switch Fabric

Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance with the Brocade 48000 Director sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how IT organizations can leverage the benefits of this SAN director to maximize performance, flexibility, and data availability in mission-critical environments. Posted: 13 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: ASIC \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| High Performance Computing \| iSCSI Protocol \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Switches