ALVARO ANTON

This guide represents a new approach to providing security guidance from VMware.

This document is the official release of the vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide. This version is based on feedback collected during the public draft comment period.

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Alvaro Anton

Security, Virtualization

Try and understand ITaS.

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Alvaro Anton

Infrastructure, Storage, Virtualization

Performance problems can arise in any computing environment. Complex application behaviors, changing demands, and shared infrastructure can lead to problems arising in previously stable environments.

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Virtualization

The benchmarking was done by ParAccel, Inc., provider of ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), vSphere 4 delivered the industry’s first fully-audited TPC-H benchmark result in an x86 based virtual environment.

A cluster of 80 virtual machines running PADB, spread across 40 physical hosts (40 HP DL380 blades), broke the existing world records for performance and price. New  established a record is 1,316,882 Composite Queries per hour. $ 0.70 Query-per-Hour Performance. The TPC-H Price/Performance metric is expressed as $/QphH@Size.

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Virtualization

EMC VPLEX Metro with AccessAnywhere™ lets you seamlessly relocate data between two sites
within synchronous distances. The combination of Virtual Storage with VPLEX Metro and Virtual Servers lets you transparently move virtual machines across a distance.

With VPLEX Metro you’ll get a next-generation distributed federation architecture that allows
you to increase availability and improve utilization across heterogeneous arrays and multiple
sites.

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Virtualization

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Alvaro Anton

Infrastructure, Virtualization