Storage architectures that are flexible and cost-effective for virtualization and consolidation solutions—as well as tools for managing virtualized storage—can require careful consideration and planning. This series of Web chats focuses on key issues and other important considerations for choosing storage architectures that can optimize virtualization benefits.

• Selecting Storage for Virtualization 101
• Benefits and Uses of EqualLogic iSCSI for Virtualization
• When to Use Which Storage for Virtualization

Technical Community Resources

Videos

• Citrix XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition: "EqualLogic Storage Interation Demo" Play | Download
• EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager VMware Edition Demo
• EqualLogic Auto Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager Demo

Previous Web Chats on Storage and Virtualization Topics

• When to Use Which Storage for Virtualization
• Selecting Storage for Virtualization 101
• Benefits and Uses of EqualLogic iSCSI for Virtualization
• VMware ESXi and ESX Discussion - Todd Muirhead and Dan Bettinger
• VMware ESXi Licensing and Features - Todd Muirhead and Damon Early
• Easy Scaling of EqualLogic iSCSI Storage - Marc Farley
• Benefits of iSCSI with Virtualization - Marc Farley and Todd Muirhead

Dell TechCenter Wiki Pages

• Blog: Confessions of a Recovering Fibre Channel User
• Blog: EqualLogic Mixes VMware and XenServer
• Selecting a Server for Virtualization
• iSCSI
• iSCSI and Virtualization
• Storage
• VMware
• Virtualization Frontier
• VMware and iSCSI

White Papers

• Cost Effective Gigabyte Exchange Mailboxes with Dell PowerVault Storage by Dave Jaffe and Todd Muirhead
• Dell EqualLogic PS Series Architecture Whitepaper: Fundamentally Altering the Economics of Shared Storage
• Integrating Dell EqualLogic SANs with Citrix XenServer Solution Brief
• Storage White Papers

Dell Power Solutions

• Automated Disaster Recovery with VMware SRM and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
  By Andrew Gilman and Jon Bock, Dell Power Solutions, August 2008
  
• Extending the Advantages of Data Center Consolidation with De-Duplication Technology
  By K.E.H. Polanski, Dell Power Solutions, February 2008

External Resources

• Dell EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager VMware Edition
• Top Storage Questions with VMware ESX Webcast with Mike Laverick