Spotlight: Server virtualizationWant the best tool around today for increasing server efficiency and utilization? Then, follow the advice of IT analysts, consultants and early adopters and use server virtualization to run multiple operating systems on high-performance hardware. SearchEnterpriseLinux.com's spotlight on server virtualization illuminates the latest products, including VMware and open source Xen, and best practices for implementing server virtualization. In these articles and tips, you'll find out how this technology can bring data center savings in hardware, personnel, power, space and more. .
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A healthy dose of Linux and VMware virtualization was all Stonebridge Bank needed to eliminate the downtime issues that plagued its older Windows-only architecture.
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Tips:
- Server room menu: Server virtualization in four styles
Virtualization is set to cut a large swath of headlines this year, but users would be wise to understand each virtualization style in turn before taking the plunge into a virtual server world.
- Top five tips for understanding virtualization
Virtualization on x86 architecture is hot, but jumping into this technology is not. IT managers, get a cool start with these five cornerstones for building virtualization brick houses.
- Open source waits for a Xen moment in 2006
What's up with Xen? The open source virtualization application has fueled some hype, but some question if it has the stomach to go the distance against VMware and others.
- Hardware support for virtualization moves closer to reality
The release of virtualization chips might drum up more interest in this technology from IT shops.
- CIO primer: Virtualization basics
Virtualization is coming into its own -- and successful IT managers at companies of all sizes are figuring ways the technology can help them.
- Mainframers battle bugs in new virtualization
Early adopters offered strong support on the latest mainframe virtualization release z/VM 5.2. Customers especially liked the 64-bit upgrade, but some shops had an easier implementation than others.
Expert advice:
- Golden's Rules: Get server control, virtualization with free, open source Xen
It's almost mind-boggling that every 18 months or so, regular as clockwork, you can get twice as much computing power. Expert Bernard Golden explores the standard fixes applied when server shoppers go overboard. These include server consolidation, grid computing and virtualization with Xen.
- Consolidation and virtualization: The same, but different
While they're similar, these two approaches are also fundamentally different. Managers need to explore how to use both if they want to end server sprawl.
- Business benefits of virtualization
Expert Bernard Golden gives power and high performance as two reasons that virtualization can be attractive to businesses.
- Clearing up confusion about virtualization and Xen
Just what is virtualization anyway, and where does Xen fit into the picture? This IT pro wants one simple answer, but our expert has to tell the truth, which isn't simple.For the latest updates, visit our website at SearchOpenSource.com, part of the TechTarget network.
