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Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2

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Overview This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either the necessary interfaces, or a simulation of one component to the other

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Parallel Processing, Blades, Fault-Tolerant Servers, Virtualization

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Publisher:
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intel

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