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Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
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Your Challenge
- Situation. Implementers generally report success in their virtualization projects.
- Complication. Where there are problems, they tend to be both operational and technical. Technical limitations, for example, are encountered when too much virtualization is done on not enough hardware.
- Solution. Taking the time for infrastructure assessment and planning can mitigate some potential pitfalls.This solution set gives you direction and provides tools for doing a proper assessment of your technical, operational environments.
Our Advice
Critical InsightExpectations management – that’s what it’s all about. Implementation pain is normally related to too high expectations of what can be virtualized and how much will be saved.
One way to implement virtualization is simply to keep virtualizing until something breaks and performance suffers. Avoid the pain of hitting the limits of virtualization through assessment and candidate selection.
Get to Action
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Anticipate the potential limitations on virtualization and how to mitigate them.
- Optimize virtual server implementation.
- Though implementers generally report success in virtualization projects there are reported pain points. Info-Tech recommends assessment and planning to avoid these potential pitfalls.
- Some implementers have just gone ahead and virtualized servers until they have to stop (usually due to performance problems). Consider the risks of virtualization without some capacity planning to assess what needs planning and where to start action right away.
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Assess the technical and business environment for server virtualization.
- Avoid performance limitations by focusing first on the best candidate workloads for a virtual server infrastructure.
- Use this note and tool to assess your current servers as virtualization candidates.
- Set the conditions for implementation success.
- Not all challenges to implementation are technical. Business and operational pitfalls range from user acceptance to budget approval.
- Use this solution set to guide your business and operational assessment.
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