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Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 2

Overview VMware ESX Server can be deployed in many ways. In this document, VMware recommend specific deployment guidelines. Following these guidelines will maximize the ease of use of ESX Server in your environment. The key objectives of any ESX Server deployment are to reduce management cost and to make more efficient use of resources. This document applies only to VMware ESX Server 2 and Virtual SMP.

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Publisher	Vmware	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2003	Downloads	1904
Format	White Papers
Topics	OS Interoperability, Application Servers

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