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Top 3 virtualization challenges: DR, backup and security

Virtual disaster recovery, virtualization security and VM backup are three main virtualization challenges, but don’t let them impede your virtualization project. Tip
Virtualization challenges: Security, storage and VM sprawl

The deeper you get into a virtualization project, the more challenges you face. Virtualization security and backup management are some of the most common. Tip
Software licensing challenges: How virtualization obscures CPU usage

When it comes to software licensing, virtualization changes the game. It’s more difficult to pinpoint processors and ensure that you purchase the right number of software licenses. Tip

Challenges of server virtualization

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Despite the clear benefits of server virtualization, there are obvious challenges to successful server virtualization deployment, including server virtualization management hurdles, server consolidation best practices, server migration issues, virtualization support, licensing, and interoperability issues, virtualization cost-versus-performance tradeoffs and more. In this section on server virtualization's challenges, we cover virtualized data center management challenges such as curbing virtual server sprawl, reducing downtime and preventing virtual machine security breaches, how to write effective virtualization service-level agreements to ensure quality of service, how to overcome virtualization licensing hurdles and considerations, the problem of virtual server sprawl, how to contend with increasing virtualization systems management complexity, virtual machine security, per-socket, per server, metered licensing and other virtualization software licensing models, and how to ensure adequate support for virtualization.

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