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Best Practices for Running Informix Instances in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments

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What are the Best Practices for Running Informix Instances in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments

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The document provides the following:

What is VMware Virtualization?
Evolution of VMWare Virtualization
Why Informix on VMWare
Informix Scalability Tests
Informix Scalability Test Results

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Best Practices for running Informix on VMWare

General Considerations
BIOS Considerations
CPU Considerations
Memory Considerations
Network Considerations
Storage Considerations



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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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