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Six Considerations Before Taking Virtualization into Production

Management Challenges Of Heterogeneous Virtualization Environment
By Michael Harding
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August 22, 2008 07:20 AM EDT
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Data center managers are quickly realizing the benefits of virtualization, including reduced power consumption, improved server utilization, increased availability by reducing planned downtime, and reduced costs. However, with these benefits comes a new layer of complexity. Heterogeneity is common in data centers and most include multiple operating systems (both virtual and physical), different virtual machines, and storage and tape vendors. Interoperability is critical to managing this heterogeneity.

As many organizations look to realize the benefits of server virtualization for production, several considerations must be examined before deploying production applications on virtual platforms. After all, production environments have tougher availability standards, demand tighter control, and have less room for error.

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Michael Harding is responsible for marketing emerging data center products for Symantec. He has a total of 20 years of hardware, software, and services marketing management experience and most recently led marketing at Solid Data Systems. Previously, Michael was director of product marketing for Qlusters, where he led the early marketing effort, and before that directed Product Marketing teams at Commtouch Software, Critical Path and EDS. Michael received a degree in business administration from Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

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