Description:

The Zebra Yard Management System (YMS) is a yard planning and management solution that leverages wireless location and communication technologies and configurable business rules to interface with other systems and optimize yard operations for efficient shipping and transit, parking assignment, and arrival/departure planning and scheduling.This document provides direction to those interested in running the Zebra Yard Management System (YMS) on VMware vSphere 4. It provides a basic overview of the Zebra YMS architecture as well as the value of utilizing the VMware® platform to run Zebra YMS and outlines some best practices for utilizing the two product sets, Zebra YMS and vSphere 4, together in your datacenter. In addition, the document provides the results of recent testing performed jointly by VMware and Zebra, which characterizes the performance and functionality of Zebra YMS running on vSphere 4.