Seven reasons why virtualization technology dominates the next generation of data centers

Server virtualization is not a new concept. More than 40 years ago, IBM launched the virtualization concept on its big machine. However, server virtualization, the "Old Wang Xie Tang Qian Yan", was not "flying into ordinary homes" until nearly two years. It has sprung up. Today, if your server is still not virtualized, and you don't even want to understand the advantages of virtualization, it feels a little outdated.

What has pushed virtualization to the forefront of the IT industry today? In fact, the reason why server virtualization is widely concerned by the IT field is not that some technology is hot-headed, but that it is derived from the following elements. First of all, PC servers are becoming more and more powerful. It turns out that PC servers that do not go to the "key applications" lobby are becoming increasingly "eroded". In the past, only high-end Unix servers can take responsibility, the low-cost and easy-to-use features of PC servers allow everyone to gradually increase their trust in PC servers. PC servers are constantly gaining more and more attention.

How can we select appropriate virtualization products to support the next generation of data centers? What virtualization features are necessary for data centers? I believe that data center-level server virtualization products must have the following seven features:

1. The virtualization solution of the data center needs to be widely verified by enterprise users.

To introduce virtualization technology into a data center-level environment, we must first examine the user situation of this product. If the number of users of this product is small and it is not verified in a variety of complex environments, even if it can provide a very beautiful demonstration, it still cannot be widely used in key environments such as data centers. Because the data center environment is often very complex, data center users have strict requirements on the online time of applications, and the introduction of immature products may be endless.

Today, we can see many different server virtualization products. Currently, the most mature is that we first plunged into the PC server virtualization VMware nine years ago, fortune 100 enterprises all adopt VMware virtualization solutions. At the same time, VMWare's virtualization solution has been verified and praised in enterprise-level user environments of more than 20000 enterprises. VMware has become the preferred server virtualization brand for enterprise-level data centers, although it has recently entered the Chinese market but has already established a large number of Chinese user groups.

2. Data Center virtualization should form a complete ecosystem

To access data center applications, virtualized products must meet the needs of various complex environments. The wide variety of data center devices and complex models pose demanding requirements for virtualization products. Virtualization products can not only be installed on PC servers, but also ensure seamless compatibility with storage devices and network devices because virtualization often involves the entire IT architecture, obtain support and approval from various hardware manufacturers. In addition, virtualization also involves the corresponding operating system and application layer. It must also be compatible with the operating systems and applications of various x86 platforms running in the data center to ensure interoperability. Therefore, in the process of virtualization selection, we need to examine its compatibility and interoperability through all aspects of the IT architecture, rather than simply judging from the server.

Currently, VMWare, which regards virtualization compatibility as an important consideration, has reached extensive cooperation with various software and hardware platform vendors in the industry to form a wide range of support platforms. This constitutes an ecosystem of VMware virtualization solutions, ensuring quick, timely, and extensive support for virtualized enterprise-level data centers based on Vmware.

3. The virtualization solution of the data center must have powerful reliability and scalability.

Server virtualization is rapidly changing the IT architecture. Therefore, once deployed, the reliability and scalability of virtualization products are crucial to the data center. Therefore, we need to comprehensively examine virtualization products in terms of reliability and scalability. To meet reliability requirements, data center virtualization can only be performed on bare metal architectures, as shown in.

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