How to incrementally deploy data center virtualization from scratch

Virtualization has been rapidly spreading beyond everyone's imagination, and many companies around us are interested in introducing virtualization. In this article, we discussed the deployment of server virtualization, readers can learn about the different types of virtualization, and can understand the virtualization technology for server and architecture management changes, and even access to some hardware and software products.

Virtualization Management and Metrics

Although server virtualization has a broad definition, there is only one core of virtualization. Each concept adds a layer of complexity to management. In other words, if you want to deploy server virtualization in your data center, and you want to simplify project management, you need to think twice about it; in fact, these VMS still need to be managed.

What cannot be measured is not manageable, so spec (standard performance evaluation company standard performance Evaluation Corp.) announces that it will develop benchmarks for testing server virtualization performance. To encourage nonprofit organizations like spec to develop test benchmarks, a committee has been formed to fund the project, including IT giants such as AMD, Dell, Intel, Sun, IBM and VMware.

To make the most of virtualization, you first need to measure the value of virtualization

After the announcement, spec company President Walter Bays described to us what form the Spec server virtualization benchmark would appear in front of us. In addition, because the application or hardware performance can effectively reflect the performance of server virtualization, so the development of a test server virtualization benchmark is bound to be a very complex work.

Virtual enterprise power saving, and can quickly restore system crashes

If server virtualization is so complex and there will be no performance test benchmarks for a while, why should we deploy virtualization? Simply put, virtualization can lower the cost of electricity for businesses, and last year, Pacific Gas & Electric (pg&e), a equipment company in northern California State, ran a new incentive program aimed at reducing the energy consumption of the enterprise. In the process of running the project, Pg&e saved a lot of costs due to the virtualization technology in the data center.

However, reducing your power bills is just one of the many benefits that server virtualization has achieved in data center operations. Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVW) Company's data center adopted virtualization technology, found that in addition to saving electricity, virtualization can also reduce the server's system load, but when there is insufficient power or accidental interruption of the situation, Virtualization can help companies recover quickly from server system crashes.

Pbnj Solutions Paul Winkler is an IT information company and distributor located in Ohio, which also believes that server virtualization can make recovery of data centers easier. In addition, the main advantage of server virtualization is that you can test disaster recovery in a virtual context, but this virtual test can take a lot of time.

SunGard also provides virtualized disaster recovery services, which employ server virtualization and VMware to provide accelerated failover to customers. SunGard's product development manager, Don Norbeck, said the company's recent survey showed that for most customers the traditional 48-hour failback was not enough; they needed to get the system back in 12 hours.