VMware vCenter Server™ 6.0 Availability Guide

vCenter Server can be a single point of failure in the environment. Many VMware® solutions, such as VMware Horizon® Suite, VMware vRealize™ Automation™, and so on, are layered on top of vCenter Server; its availability impacts the usability of these components. Loss of vCenter Server curtails the ability of these solutions to perform many critical functions such as making changes and creating new virtual machines (VMs).VMware vCenter comprises multiple components. To provide reliable availability options, an understanding of what these components entail, including dependencies, is required.

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Virtual software platform for the car

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Virtualization technology is gaining acceptance in the automotive industry. It makes the development process of software systems more efficient, reduces development and BOM costs, and shortens time-to-market. Especially in the cockpit, manufacturers and their direct suppliers have now been using hypervisor-based systems for several years. This first step towards a new conception of solutions is now experiencing another paradigm shift: the use of open standards. It further enhances the advantages of virtualization. The fully virtualized guest operating systems can be flexibly deployed and reused across all hardware. Only then can the full potential of virtualization technology be fully exploited

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Deployments and Onboarding to Horizon Cloud for Microsoft Azure and Horizon Pods

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Use the following information and the linked-to articles when preparing to use Horizon Cloud or Horizon control-plane services, while onboarding your pods, and during day-to-day use. Refer back to this information throughout your journey using the control-plane services.

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So many ways to WAN

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is an application-aware service that intelligently routes traffic in real time based on established business policies, along with network quality and availability. SD-WAN is used to connect multiple locations in a network to each other, to a data center, to applications and data in the cloud, or to SaaS platforms. Leveraging multiple, cost-effective access types at each location in an active-active configuration, an SD-WAN network routes application traffic over the best-performing network elements in real time and ensures automated failover for resiliency.

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Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

The Cisco HyperFlex™ HX Data Platform revolutionizes data storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments and makes Cisco HyperFlex Systems ready for your enterprise applications—whether they run in virtualized environments such as Microsoft Windows 2016 Hyper-V

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Dell EMC VxRail vSAN Stretched-Cluster Planning Guide

whitePaper | November 20, 2019

vCenter Server is the centralized platform for managing a VMware environment. It is the primary point of management for both server virtualization and vSAN and is the enabling technology for advanced capabilities such as vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and HA. vCenter scales to enterprise levels where a single vCenter can support up to 1000 hosts (VxRail nodes) and 10,000 virtual machines. vCenter supports a logical hierarchy of datacenters, clusters, and hosts, which allow resources to be segregated by use cases or lines of business and allow resources to be moved as needed dynamically. This is all done from a single interface.

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Zone-ECU Virtualization Solution Platform

whitePaper | May 26, 2022

The high complexity of future vehicle systems will need to move away from today’s distributed automotive E/E architecture towards a more centralized E/E structure based on less but much more powerful ECUs, instead of many individual control entities

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Center for Internet Security

CIS is a forward-thinking nonprofit entity that harnesses the power of a global IT community to safeguard private and public organizations against cyber threats. Our CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks are the global standard and recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks. These proven guidelines are continually refined and verified by a volunteer global community of experienced IT professionals. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC®), the go-to resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities.

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