Driving Towards Higher Levels of Virtualization with Enterprise Application Virtualization

Short Description
VirtualizationThere are Many Types of Virtualization
Enterprise Application Virtualization
- Coordinate, schedule and manage workload across a pool of resources
- Schedulers, workload managers, etc.
Application Virtualization
- Running an application within a VM
- Applies tobothdesktop and server applicationsEnterpriseApplication
Server Virtualization
- Partitioning / Hypervisors

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Is Server Virtualization Enough?
Usage of server virtualization is difficult to tie to business or application policy…
WLM / resource allocation based on CPU, memory utilization
–IT metric focused
–Within a machine, not across a set of machines
–Applications can hog resources within a VM
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Extending the value of server virtualization with enterprise application virtualization…
Better Isolation Characteristics and Resiliency
–Ensure an application within a VM does not consume all resourcesin a VM and impact other applications running in the VM
–Health management of applications
–fixing the problem, or routing around the problem
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