Partner White Papers

Citrix

Citrix Access Suite: IDC White Paper
IDC examines market trends, how these trends cause organizations to change their technology adoption and investment plans, and how Citrix access infrastructure software can help organizations derive value from their IT investments.

Citrix Access Suite: Modernize, Centralize, and Optimize IT Operations
Learn why CIO's and IT organization need to provide on-demand access, the difficulties in doing so, and the overall advantages and economic impact of the Citrix solution.

Citrix Value-Add to Windows Terminal Services
This document compares the base-level features within Windows Terminal Services to the value-added features of several Citrix products, including Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix Access Essentials, and the Citrix Access Suite.

VMware

Reducing Server Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with VMware
This paper explains how leading VMware customers have achieved considerable improvements in IT infrastructure TCO by virtualizing their datacenters. It also indicates how prospective VMware customers can estimate their own potential TCO and return on investment (ROI).

Recentralizing Server Sprawl Through VMware
This whitepaper covers best strategies to cost savings.

Develop, Test, and Deploy Faster with VMware Software
This high level whitepaper describes several scenarios where virtual infrastructure dramatically improves test and development optimization.

Microsoft

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
This paper reveals how Exchange Server 2007 provides services well beyond traditional email. Built-in capabilities that give users an anywhere access platform, with more ways to access more types of information than ever before. Built-in services that, when configured, provide dependable access to information compliant with regulatory requirements. This information is supported in many formats, including e-mail, voice mail, fax, calendar, contacts, SharePoint sites, and file shares. For administrators, Exchange Server 2007 offers a modular, role-based architecture allowing locating services where they're needed and delegate administration in a way that closely matches how the IT department is organized.

Microsoft Windows Clustering: Storage Area Networks
Describes storage area networks (SAN) and how server clusters can be deployed in a SAN, and how the Windows platform, regarding Windows clustering in particular, can take advantage of SAN technology.

Windows Server 2003 Server Cluster Architecture
Server clusters running on the Windows Server 2003 operating system provide failover support for back-end applications and services that require high availability and data integrity. These back-end applications include enterprise applications such as database, file server, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and messaging systems. Architecture and features of server clusters terminology, concepts, design goals, key components, and planned future directions are described.

Geographically Dispersed Clusters in Windows Server 2003
Describes multi-site network load balancing, server cluster configurations, and how to deploy geographically dispersed clusters. Also covered are key server cluster features in Windows Server 2003.

Failover Clustering for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Analysis
This white paper is intended mainly for a technical audience and not technical decision makers. It complements the existing documentation around planning, implementing, and administering of a failover cluster that can be found in Microsoft® SQL Server^TM 2005 Books Online. To ease the upgrade process for existing users of failover clustering, this white paper will also point out differences in the failover clustering implementation of SQL Server 2005 compared to that of SQL Server 2000.

Windows Server 2008 Power Savings
In Windows Server® 2008, Microsoft is introducing new features and technologies, some of which were not available in Windows Server® 2003, that will help to reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimize environmental byproducts, and increase server efficiency. This document describes some of these features and technologies. Windows Server System Reference Architecture

LeftHand Networks

App Note - iSCSI Initiator for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
This document is a compilation of many Best Practices guides that LeftHand Networks has compiled over years of implementing and selling iSCSI/IP Storage Networks. Although not an exhaustive set of Best Practices, the most common items seen in the field using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator against a SAN/iQ enabled SAN are described in detail. This document pertains only to Windows 2008 running SAN/iQ software version 7.0 or higher.

Best Practice for Active Monitoring of LeftHand SANs
This document describes best practices and recommendations for implementing and managing active monitoring of NSMs via e-mail notifications and/or SNMP traps.

Best Practice for Adding or Replacing Storage Modules in a Production Cluster 011507
When adding or replacing storage modules in a production cluster, following the procedures in this document expedites a successful deployment, and decreases the instance of future problems.

Best Practice for Re-IPing LeftHand SAN
This document covers changing the IP addresses of the Storage Modules in a Cluster or Management Group from one set of IP addresses to a different set of IP addresses, including moving to a new subnet.

This WSSRA blueprint focuses on business requirements and architectural considerations for the infrastructure upon which applications are implemented in an enterprise organization.