TOP TEN CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHOOSING A SERVER VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
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The playing field for server virtualization has become much more crowded over the last few years. Competition is always good for a market as more choices always push vendors into providing better products at more competitive prices. It can be very time consuming to digest each vendor’s marketing materials to come to the right solution for your organization. This checklist provides a list of the main considerations and basic differences between the technologies to provide a starting point for technology evaluation. The three main technologies discussed in this analysis are: hardware virtualization, para-virtualization and OS virtualization.
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8Gb Fibre Channel Optimized for Virtualized SAN Environments
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As Fibre Channel (FC) technology evolves into a new generation of 8Gb products, it is imperative that data center administrators deploy a scalable architecture to meet a full spectrum of concerns beyond cost, performance, and backwards compatibility. The modern data center is faced with ever-growing demands in the areas of virtualization, power consumption, reliability, availability, as well as serviceability (RAS), security, and manageability. This paper explores virtualization, one of the key pillars of QLogic’s next generation of FC products that are optimized to exceed the business needs of data centers.
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The ultimate platform for server virtualization
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Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine in virtual machines. Server virtualization allows IT managers to use specifi c software to divide a single, physical server into multiple partitions — or virtual servers — each acting as its own individual server. The end result to IT? A manageable way to build power-efficient, highly flexible, and scalable solution platforms without purchasing multiple physical machines. The benefit for the business? Help to maximize revenues, return on investments, and shareholder value.
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Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization Part I
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In 2003, Intel announced that they were working on a technology called “Vanderpool” that was aimed at providing hardware-level support for a something called “virtualization.” With that announcement, the decades-old concept of virtualization had officially arrived on the technology press radar. But in spite of its long history in computing, as a new buzzword “virtualization” at first smelled ominously similar to terms like “trusted computing” and “convergence.” In other words, many folks had a vague notion of what virtualization was, and it from what they could tell it sounded like a decent enough idea, but you got the impression that nobody outside of a few vendors and CIO types was really too excited.
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Xen Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization
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Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise. This results from an urgent need to focus on reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing infrastructure. In spite of – or indeed because of – the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. In addition to the capital expenditures to purchase them, each server in the data center costs an enterprise about an additional $10,000 per year to run, with costs including provisioning, maintenance, administration, power, real-estate, and hardware and software licenses.
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F5 and the 8 ways to Virtualization
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F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to achieving their goal of a implementing a complete Virtual Data Center with F5’s Application Delivery Networking products.
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Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization
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Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the interest of datacenter managers who are facing difficult power and cooling problems, the need to add more IT capacity to react to market changes, or a lack of significant capital resources. The server virtualization marketplace has been evolving rapidly over the past few years, and IDC has seen customer attitudes and stances toward virtualization mature rapidly as well. Virtualization is changing the landscape of the x86 IT world as we know it. Virtualization has made every vendor up and down the software and hardware stacks consider the impact on the architectural design of its product and the go-to-market model it uses. This changing marketplace has manifested itself with new requirements for virtualization products.
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