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iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel: Three Reasons Not To Choose Either sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage systems are not delivering the price-performance and agility at the storage layer required to keep up with the new virtualized compute layer. This paper explores a third storage networking technology, Ethernet SAN, and why you don’t have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Posted: 05 May 2011 \| Published: 29 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Architecting Storage in Virtualized Environments sponsored by Nimble Storage WHITE PAPER: This guide will show you how to lay the foundation for an efficient, easy-to-manage storage infrastructure in your virtualized environment. Posted: 04 Dec 2013 \| Published: 04 Dec 2013 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Architectures \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| VM \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments. Posted: 23 Feb 2010 \| Published: 01 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| SAN \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization. Posted: 09 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Resource Management \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Reducing Power Consumption With Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control. Posted: 29 Jan 2010 \| Published: 29 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System Evaluation sponsored by HPE and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more. Posted: 16 Feb 2012 \| Published: 15 Feb 2012 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| SMBs \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Virtualizing Storage within Cloud Computing Infrastructures Using VMware vSphere 4.0 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: Dell Virtualization Solutions with VMware provide the most efficient virtual infrastructure foundation to power vSphere 4 cloud infrastructures. Read this paper to learn more about the features and business benefits of Dell and VMware solutions for your cloud computing infrastructure. Posted: 14 May 2010 \| Published: 13 May 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Using Tiered Storage in a PS Series SAN sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN. Posted: 10 Mar 2011 \| Published: 10 Mar 2011 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Tiered Storage