Will Data Center Virtualization Spiral Out of Control? A Model to Deal With It

ID Number: G00159966

24 July 2008

George J. Weiss Cameron Haight

Today's silo-based, x86 server-based virtualization solutions have not addressed the coming increased complexity attendant with multiple combinations of x86 scale-out and scale-up (symmetric multiprocessing) usage scenarios.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

What You Need to Know

2.0

Server Virtualization

2.1		Model for Virtualization Deployments
2.2		Benefits and Trade-offs
2.3		Consequences of Misdirected Planning

3.0

Conclusions

Recommended Reading

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Virtualization Scenario Planner

	Figure 2.	Virtualization Scenario Planner: What to Avoid

	Figure 3.	Virtualization Scenario Planner: Organizational Overcompensations

	Figure 4.	Virtualization Scenario Planner: Stepwise Balanced Approach

Virtualization
Data Center Servers
Server Virtualization

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