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LAMP Performance on Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Servers Running VMware ESX Server
The Dell Scalable Enterprise Technology Center Labs team ran performance characterization and sizing tests on a Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade server running VMware ESX Server 2.5.1 software to simulate a virtualized LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) env…
VMware ESX Server Performance on Dual-Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers
Several Dell PowerEdge server models can be equipped with dual-core Intel Xeon processors. Dell engineers tested the Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with both single-core and dual-core processors, and the results showed a 28 to 51 percent performance gain w…
Management by Contract in the Virtual Data Center
Increased competition and globalization are forcing traditional data centers to provide more services while reducing resource costs. This article explores approaches that can enable contract management for disparate services in massive resource pools.
Live Migration with Xen Virtualization Software
For enterprise planning to evaluate Xen in their own environment, this article outlines an evaluation deployment of a LAMP application stack for live migration setup on a virtual machine using Xen open source software.