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Server hardware 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 be the best virtualization platform for your environment -- blade servers, rackmount servers, legacy mainframe system or cloud computing platforms -- in terms of the virtualized workloads you will deploy, your data center footprint, and data center power and cooling requirements. You also want an adequate number of networking interface card (NIC) slots and host bus adapters (HBAs) and you need to choose the best networking options for virtual machine traffic, including PCI express, InfiniBand, Ethernet, of Fibre Channel. Choosing the right CPUs and server memory capacity for virtualization is also necessary.
This section on server hardware choices for data center virtualization helps you weigh server hardware options and features in terms of cost, performance, reliability, support, interoperability and other factors to optimize server performance and server efficiency. You will learn which server hardware products and features are best suited for production environments, test and development, disaster recovery, high performance computing, and cloud computing, and how to optimize memory, CPU, networking, server configuration and management and virtualization hardware support.
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Blade server popularity cools
SearchDataCenter.com | 25 Sep 2009
ARTICLE - The bloom may be off the rose for blades. Management and heat issues have cooled demand for blade servers, according to IT pros.
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Hyper-V R2 matches VMware with 64-processor support
SearchServerVirtualization.com | 16 Jul 2009
ARTICLE - Support for 64 logical processors brings Hyper-V R2 up to par with VMware, but it's more a perk for existing Microsoft virtualization customers than a reason to migrate.
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Get started with Intel VT
Submitted By: SearchServerVirtualization.com | 14 Oct 2009
TIP - If you suffer from problems that limit virtualization performance, study these tips on how Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) can help solve them.
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Hardware for virtualization trends
SearchServerVirtualization.com | 18 Sep 2008
VIDEO - Virtualization expert Rick Vanover surveys the hardware for virtualization offerings and trends at VMworld 2008.
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Learning Guide: Servers for virtualization
SearchServerVirtualization.com | 01 Jun 2006
LEARNING GUIDE - This guide introduces the best hardware for virtualization through articles, definitions, tips, white papers and expert advice on how to virtualize on various types of systems. |
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SPARC
10 Apr 2003
WORD - SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a 32- and 64-bit microprocessor architecture from Sun Microsystems that is based on reduced instruction set computing (RISC). SPARC has become a widely-used architecture for ...
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PowerPC
11 Dec 2003
WORD - PowerPC is a microprocessor architecture that was developed
jointly by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. The PowerPC employs reduced instruction-set computing (RISC). The three developing companies have made the PowerPC architecture ...
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AMD
23 Jul 2001
WORD - AMD is the second largest maker of personal computer microprocessors after Intel. They also make flash memory, integrated circuits for networking devices, and programmable logic devices. AMD reports that it has sold over ...
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