Virtualization Strategies for the CIOAll-in-One Guides:Server virtualization beginner's guide
Server virtualization beginner's guide
Virtualization basics
This collection of articles and tips introduces the different virtualization technologies and main software offerings: VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual Server and XenServer. You'll learn how to choose appropriate servers for virtualization and how to plan your server environment. You'll also learn how P2V (physical-to-virtual) migrations can ease physical data center moves, three different ways to virtualize storage and more.
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Virtualization for the beginner by Anil Desai: A crash course
Tip - Take a fast trip through tips on choosing virtualization products, managing virtual machine sprawl and virtual hard disks, migrating from VMware to Microsoft Virtual Server and more. Your guide is Anil Desai, IT book author and consultant and...
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Tip - Read part four of this series to find out when a virtual desktop makes sense in place of SBC environments or traditional desktops, and when it doesn't.
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Which servers and applications are good virtualization candidates?
Tip - In this article, Anil Desai offers guidelines for deciding whether or not an application or server should be virtualized.
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Virtualization security benefits and drawbacks
Tip - If you're virtualizing your servers, you need to understand the possibly security drawbacks. Anil Desai highlights the main concerns in this tip.
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An overview of virtualization technology
Tip - Virtualization is a hot topic in the enterprise space these days. It's being touted as the solution to every problem from server proliferation to CPU underutilization to application isolation. While the technology does indeed have many benefits, it's not...
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How P2V migrations can ease data center moves
Tip - Moving a data center? P2V migrations reduce risk, cost, downtime and exposure over physical migrations. Find out more in James Geis's tip.
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Understanding VHD (virtual hard disk) options
Tip - Learn the pros and cons of fixed-size and dynamically expanding virtual hard drives supported by Microsoft Virtual Server.
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Get low-cost virtualization with free VMware, Microsoft, Xen products
Tip - Virtualization technology can be expensive. In this tip, Alessandro Perilli tells you how you can bring virtualization into your data center and avoid the hefty price tag.
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How to set up virtualization Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Tip - Anil Desai tells you how to define Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to better manage virtualization and reduce costs.
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Choosing a virtualization approach
Tip - In this article, Anil Desai distinguishes among virtualization at the hardware, server and application levels and provides guidelines for evaluating which works best.