Virtualization Strategies for the CIO
When you deploy a virtual environment or adopt a new hypervisor vendor, you provide your data center with cost-saving benefits and ease of management. The phases between creation and production, however, provide many opportunities for your virtualization deployment to derail. From my experience with virtual infrastructure deployments and upgrades, here are five gotchas.
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Security management, Server virtualization compliance and governance
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VMware virtualization, VMware management tools, VMware conference coverage, Microsoft virtualization, VMware administration and how-tos, Microsoft Hyper-V management, Citrix XenServer, Open source virtualization, Emerging platforms, Vendor selection
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Servers and virtualization, Network virtualization, Virtualized clusters and high-performance computing, Cloud computing architecture, Cloud computing infrastructure, Application virtualization, Using virtual machine appliances, Virtualization how-tos and learning guides, Networking for Server Virtualization
Virtualization backup and disaster recovery strategies
Backup and disaster recovery, Virtual server backup and storage
Server virtualization staffing and budgets
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Desktop virtualization, Lab, test and development, Cloud computing and virtualization strategies, Data center consolidation, Backup, disaster recovery and business continuity
Benefits of server virtualization
Server consolidation and improved resource utilization, Green data center: Reducing power consumption with virtualization, Reducing IT costs with server virtualization, Improving server management with virtualization
Challenges of server virtualization
Virtualization costs, licensing and support issues, Virtualization security and patch management, Downtime and data loss in virtualized environments, Preventing virtual machine sprawl
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