27-07-2012, 04:18 PM
Virtualization Assessment
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Strategy for web hosting
Reduce costs by consolidating services onto the fewest number of physical machines
Tactics
Consolidate shared environments (WebSphere, PHP, HTML, ASP) onto fewer boxes configured with one OS each.
Still a large number of physical servers to support
Investigate options for virtualization to consolidate Windows and Linux hosting offerings onto one or two machines.
Investigate options for virtualization to lower costs for “co-location” services for customers.
Virtualization Defined
Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of resources across many aspects of computing
For our purposes - One physical machine to support multiple virtual machines that run in parallel.
Research into Virtualization at ITE
Reduce the number of physical machines
Isolate environments but share hardware
Make better use of existing capacity
Virtualize Network and SAN interfaces to reduce infrastructure needs
Ultimately save on maintenance and leases
More options available today than ever before…