Virtualization Best Practices
Gain practical guidance from leading users, analysts and experts on how to successfully scope and implement Virtualization initiatives and projects. Includes implementation examples, guidance, checklists, mistakes and tips.
| Green IT - The New Industry Shockwave |
| As part of a presentation on the "greening" of IT, virtualization is highlighted as a valuable tool to achieve specific objectives. From the Resource: "The use of virtualization technologies will substantially increase utilization levels and increase the possibility to power down unused capacity or, at least make use of the power management built into the servers. Management software exists to automatically restart servers as required, offering the possibility of creating an architecture similar to that in the power generation industry, where base load is addressed with technologies such as coal, gas and nuclear, and then they have load-following resources and peaking units that can be brought online with varying degrees of delay as demand peaks." |
| Ken McGee and Simon Mingay, Gartner |
| Storage and Virtualization: Five Best Practices to Ensure Success |
| Best practices in managing virtualized environments: 1) Cross domain analysis - need to look across IT domains 2) Adopt an application view of performance - manage to service levels 3) Finding shared resource contention - virtualization is about sharing, and that's often the problem 4) "Effective Capability" management - shared resources still obey the laws of physics 5) Model-based optimization and planning - leverage prediction to improve your future |
| Mike Matchett, Akorri |
| 10 Questions to Test Your Virtualization Readiness |
| Key questions to ask before embarking on an enterprisewide virtualization project: 1. Do you have the skills to support virtualization? 2. Are you ready for the politics virtualization could introduce? 3. Have you considered and can you accept the risks? 4. How will your security systems hold up? 5. Do you have compatible systems and applications? 6. Do you have a capacity-planning discipline? 7. Is there support for your environments? 8. Can your network support virtualization? 9. Can your management systems handle virtual environments? 10. Does virtualization help you address business objectives? |
| Denise Dubie, Network World |
