Tips

Tips

Container and virtualization technology services

• Citrix DaaS: How to deploy virtual desktops as a service provider

  Need a leg up in the desktop-as-a-service market? Citrix offers business resources, marketing assistance and a reference architecture to help service providers get started.  Continue Reading

• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster: Basic points for customers

  Learn about the most important factors for a Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster, including Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes and more.  Continue Reading

• How virtualized data centers are inhibiting cloud adoption

  Cloud providers don't pay much heed to enterprise data centers, but shops are deploying virtual data centers four times faster than they are cloud.  Continue Reading

• Selling cloud integration services: Moving customers to the cloud

  Partners help clients make the cloud transition with cloud integration services that cover determining application placement and security.  Continue Reading

• Using VMM 2012 to add Hyper-V servers to trusted and untrusted domains

  Learn how to add Hyper-V servers to trusted and untrusted domains using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012 in this chapter excerpt.  Continue Reading

• Selling advanced remote network management: Configuration and discovery

  As networks become complex with virtualization and cloud, partners find opportunities to sell remote network management solutions for configuration and discovery.  Continue Reading

• Selling government IT solutions: Challenges and opportunities

  Partners are finding business opportunities in selling government IT solutions despite tight budgets and learning curves in the government sector.  Continue Reading

• Selling Red Hat virtualization to SMBs

  Red Hat virtualization can be a great tool to get small and medium-sized businesses into virtualization and can win VARs customer trust.  Continue Reading

• Creating a virtual machine template in vCenter Server

  Learn how to create a virtual machine template, update the template and deploy a VM from a template in vCenter Server.  Continue Reading

• Using Hyper-V Replica to help SMBs with disaster recovery

  The Hyper-V Replica feature in Hyper-V 3.0 provides an opportunity for VARs to offer disaster recovery and business continuity services to SMBs.  Continue Reading

• FAQ: Selling Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0

  Learn how the launch of Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 is stirring up the hypervisor space and what solution providers need to know when selling it.  Continue Reading

• Virtualizing small business customers with vSphere Hypervisor

  Upgrading SMB customers to a virtualized server using vSphere Hypervisor can improve performance and stability, but there are some limitations.  Continue Reading

• Cloning virtual machines in vCenter Server

  Learn how to identify and clone virtual machines in vCenter Server, from the parameter selection in vSphere 5 to the actual steps to creating the clone.  Continue Reading

• Five steps to optimizing vSphere performance in the cloud

  Solution providers hosting applications in the cloud on VMware’s platform can take advantage of these five tips for improving vSphere performance.  Continue Reading

• Mid-sized companies transition to virtualization architecture

  As network workloads increase, partners are helping mid-sized companies transition to scaled-down virtualization architecture to overcome network issues and tie in cloud services.  Continue Reading