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This article is part of the August 2011 issue of Virtual infrastructure: Don't skip the small stuff
Administrators always search for incremental performance enhancements and operational efficiencies to fine tune a virtualized server infrastructure. As such, seemingly minor adjustments and tweaks can ensure that a complex virtual environment maintains a high level of performance for users and clients. This article showcases five ways to optimize a virtualized server infrastructure's effectiveness. These configurations are applicable to all virtualized server environments. While some practices may seem small in scope, they can greatly affect your infrastructure performance. 1. Boost virtualized server infrastructure performance with file server consolidation File servers can be a big pain point for administrators. Often, when file servers are consolidated from physical systems, they're simply converted and loaded onto a virtualized server infrastructure. As a result, administrators miss an opportunity to delete, consolidate and organize potentially unstructured data. So let's consider a slightly different approach to optimize file servers. More on improving ... Access >>>
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Virtualization infrastructure monitoring: Eating your veggies
by Eric Siebert, Contributor
Monitoring for virtual machine sprawl, security risks, and resource bottlenecks is like eating your spinach: It ensures virtualization environment health. An expert outlines key VM monitoring tasks.
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Virtualization infrastructure monitoring: Eating your veggies
by Eric Siebert, Contributor
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Top 5 ways to improve virtualized server infrastructure performance
by Rick Vanover, Contributor
To keep virtualized server infrastructure performance at a high level, admins must continually tweak components. Here are five ways to optimize a virtualized server infrastructure.
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Top 5 ways to improve virtualized server infrastructure performance
by Rick Vanover, Contributor
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