Cisco - Precautions OEM Guided Installation Utilities
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These multi-lingual GIUs are intended to ease the installation of an operating system and install necessary device, port, and mini-port drivers relevant to the particular target server hardware. These GIUs all support multiple operating systems, for example, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Linux variants. Only Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced server issues will be discussed in this Technical Note. These GIUs do not actually embed a version of any operating system within their media. Instead, they rely upon the installer to furnish operating system media at an appropriate time during execution of the utility. These original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) utilize a Microsoft utility named “SysPrep” (also known as Mini-Setup) to control and automate the actions of the Windows installation process through use of an “answer file”.
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IBM eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3
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To get the most out of an AIX 5L system, the hardware used is important. It is always possible to add, upgrade, and configure new devices later, but an initial architecture planning step cannot be skipped. For example, a system may require an additional server named the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to provide advanced management functions.
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F5 and the 8 ways to Virtualization
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F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to achieving their goal of a implementing a complete Virtual Data Center with F5’s Application Delivery Networking products.
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Virtualization and Disk Performance
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Given that virtualization technologies have many specific applications this paper will begin by first presenting definitions.
Definition: Virtualization
Essentially to virtualize something means to make something that doesn’t actually (physically) exist appear to exist. Think of the context in virtual reality. Let’s make a quick example of something everyone in IT is familiar with, a PC with 4 logical volumes (C, D, E, and F). In reality that desktop has one physical disk drive partitioned into 4 volumes. A logical volume is in this case a virtual drive.
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Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways - White Paper
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Alice has asked the million-dollar question: What does “going virtual” really mean in today’s IT world? Virtualization as a concept is not new; computational environment virtualization has been around since the fi rst mainframe systems. But recently, the term “virtualization” has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process obfuscation where a process is somehow removed from its physical operating environment. Because of this ambiguity, virtualization can almost be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. For example, mobile device emulators are a form of virtualization because the hardware platform normally required to run the mobile operating system has been emulated, removing the OS binding from the hardware it was written for. But this is just one example of one type of virtualization; there are many definitions of the term “virtualization” fl oating around in the current lexicon, and all (or at least most) of them are correct, which can be quite confusing.
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Oracle On Demand Infrastructure Virtualization with Oracle VM
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Oracle On Demand offers the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry, including subscription and managed applications that accelerate business results, reduce costs, and lower risks. For customers to achieve these benefits, Oracle On Demand invests in advanced technologies and continuously improves services.
Reviewing the evolution of the Oracle On Demand Managed Services Grid gives context and rationale to Oracle’s virtualization efforts. Over the last four years, Oracle has leveraged commodity servers to enhance services by hardening security and adhering to new deployment standards. Oracle further enhanced services by improving the test infrastructure and isolating critical production workloads. While these operational enhancements were being deployed, Oracle continued to rapidly adopt new infrastructure technologies that increased customer capacity. Most recently, Oracle has been replacing single-core servers using two units of space in a server rack (2U) with dual-core servers using one unit of space (1U) - in effect, quadrupling the capacity of the Oracle On Demand Managed Services Grid.
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XenSource XenEnterprise 3.1 hardware assisted server virtualization software introduction and installation for HP ProLiant servers
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Server virtualization methods are rapidly evolving as multiple hardware and software companies compete to deliver the solution required to address the challenges of today’s enterprise data centers and of small and medium business markets. This document specifically addresses x64 server virtualization, enabling the consolidation of multiple operating systems with software from XenSource on HP hardware.
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