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Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture


How you build your virtualization infrastructure and architecture is one of the most major decisions you make, and your choices will dictate whether your virtualized environment helps you consolidate physical servers, space, reduce costs and improve resource utilization or whether it suffers from performance problems, virtual machine security risks, virtual sprawl, virtualization licensing and compliance problems, and other management issues. From the server hardware, operating systems and networking choices to your choice of virtual systems management tools, your virtualized environment has certain requirements to ensure virtual machine performance, system uptime, VM security and compliance and more. Whether you're building a private cloud or developing an environment for a public cloud, you need to know how to design and architect your virtualization environment for these requirements. This section provides news, advice and how-to's on building a virtualized infrastructure, so you make can informed decisions about your virtualization environment make sense for your virtualized architecture and offers best practices on how to build a server virtualization architecture that grows with your business needs and technical requirements.
HIGHLIGHTS
VMware's Thinstall acquisition yields ThinApp application virtualization software
ARTICLE - The newly renamed ThinApp application virtualization product allows virtually any application to run on Windows, liberating admins from potential OS conflicts.
Virtualizing VoIP
TIP - As IP PBX vendors embrace nonproprietary platforms, the time is right for virtualizing call managers.
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Servers and virtualization
Once you decide to take on a server consolidation project using virtualization, you face a host of data center virtualization infrastructure challenges, including server hardware choices, network optimization, the right processors and memory capacity. You should consider which server would ...
Network virtualization
Even with the best virtualization software and the newest server hardware, networking performance problems and latency can frustrate users. But building virtual networks is increasingly a piece of the puzzle in any virtualized data center. And you have many factors to consider, from ...
Virtualized clusters and high-performance computing
High-performance computing architectures, virtualized clustering and virtualization all enable data centers to improve server utilization efficiency and data center computing resource use and, potentially, reduce costs in their data centers. This section explores the latest news and ...
Cloud computing and virtualization
For companies considering cloud computing, private clouds are a good starting point. Building and managing a private cloud enables you to pool hardware, storage, network, Web, and virtualization resources for more flexible, dynamic and on-demand requirements. Get news and research on the ...
Application virtualization
Application virtualization allows you to run software from a remote server rather than on an individual user's computer, and dynamic link library programs, then redirect all the virtualized application's calls to the host server's file system. Advantages of application virtualization ...
Using virtual machine appliances
With virtual appliances, administrators can get some of the benefits of running virtual machines without the burdens of installing, configuring and managing hefty software stacks. These customizable virtual software images have become an easy way to develop and roll out software without ...
Virtualization how-tos and learning guides
In this section, we offer resources on the basics of virtualization, an overview of different models of virtualization, such as hosted, bare-metal and OS-level virtualization, and we establish different virtualization providers' role –including VMware, Microsoft, Citrix Systems ...

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