Tony Palmer

• lab reports
  Apr 12, 2012

  Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

  This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning.

• lab reports
  Feb 13, 2012

  Lab Review: Pivot3 vSTAC VDI-Simple Scalability for VMware View 5

  This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance, and looks at how Pivot3 can streamline and simplify the deployment, management and scale-out of VMware View 5 VDI implementations.
• lab reports
  Feb 13, 2012

  Emulex LPe16000 Series 16GFC HBAs

  This report documents ESG Lab's hands-on testing of the Emulex LightPulse 16G Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA), and explores the HBA's ability to improve virtualization efficiency and increase performance in an 8Gb or 16Gb environment. The report also covers the ease of management and simplicity of deployment of the LPe16000 series.

• lab reports
  Feb 1, 2012

  Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite

  Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and increasing the performance of a full range of business applications including e-mail, ERP, CRM, backup, and file sharing. This ESG Lab Validation examines Riverbed's WAN optimization and Virtual Services Platform (VSP) as well as the Riverbed Granite edge virtual server infrastructure that enables organizations to consolidate storage considered impossible to consolidate due to the response time requirements of branch-bound applications that rely on local storage.

• lab reports
  Jan 12, 2012

  HP ProLiant DL980, Intel Xeon, and VMware vSphere 5 SAP Performance Analysis

  This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5. Testing was conducted with a virtualized, tier-1 SAP application workload running on a massively scalable HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by next-generation Intel processors, running VMware virtualization software.   The tests were designed to confirm that virtualized infrastructure built with these components can be used to lower cost of ownership, increase scalability, and provide excellent performance while maintaining the reliability and availability required by tier-1 applications.

• blogs
  Nov 30, 2011

  A cool customer use of the QLogic iSR
• blogs
  Nov 30, 2011

  Lab Report -- QLogic Intelligent Storage Router
• lab reports
  Nov 30, 2011

  QLogic Intelligent Storage Router

  This ESG Lab Validation report explores hands-on testing and validation of the QLogic 6200 series of Intelligent Storage Router (iSR), focusing on multi-protocol data migration and the simplicity, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency the QLogic iSR series brings to a heterogeneous storage environment.

• blogs
  Oct 20, 2011

  Lab Report - NetApp OnCommand Insight
• lab reports
  Oct 20, 2011

  NetApp OnCommand Insight: Intelligent Management for Virtualized and Cloud Environments

  ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of NetApp OnCommand Insight management software. The test environment was built to reflect a heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure to demonstrate the ability to manage across domains and provide end-to-end visibility from the applications down into the storage systems in both physical and virtualized IT infrastructures. ESG Lab followed the path a user might take to use OnCommand Insight to optimize their infrastructure for maximum benefit while simplifying planning and purchasing decisions, managing storage as an end-to-end service, and integrating storage into the IT service-delivery chain.

• lab reports
  Oct 12, 2011

  Brocade VCS Fabric Technology: Bringing Scalable, Distributed Intelligence to the Data Center with Ethernet Fabric

  The needs of today's virtualized server environments present new and increasingly difficult challenges to traditional network infrastructure. With bandwidth-intensive virtualization options like vMotion combined with increased levels of automation, IT administrators have a difficult time providing the appropriate performance and service levels at the moment they are required. This ESG Lab Validation examines Brocade VDX Data Center Switches leveraging Brocade VCS Technology, validating its ability to provide a network environment that is easy to implement and manage, and optimized for virtualization.

• blogs
  Oct 7, 2011

  The ESG Lab Blog is now online
• blogs
  Oct 7, 2011

  Lab Report - NetApp and Microsoft Exchange 2010
• lab reports
  Oct 7, 2011

  NetApp and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Enterprise Class, Cost Effective Storage for Microsoft Exchange 2010

  This ESG Lab Validation analyzes the operational efficiency of NetApp FAS and V-Series data storage systems in real-world, mission-critical, enterprise e-mail environments to validate the tangible business value offered by NetApp in enterprises utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

• lab reports
  Oct 6, 2011

  NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1: Efficient, Flexible, Scale-out NAS and SAN Storage

  This ESG Lab Validation report explores how NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1  operating in Cluster Mode can help organizations create a highly efficient, flexible, and scalable data storage environment that supports a shared IT infrastructure foundation for nonstop operations, operational flexibility and efficiency, and on-demand IT services.

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