Server Virtualization

Server and storage virtualization have evolved from consolidation projects involving non-business critical servers and storage to enterprise production systems. Advancements in virtualization technologies have made them enticing for business critical services by enabling high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and agility to IT systems and processes. But determining the best solutions among those available, for the long term, as well as how to organize and deploy virtualization technologies to achieve maximum efficiency and enable the dynamic data center, can be daunting. Burton group’s in-depth approach to server and storage virtualization technologies and methodologies enables IT administrators to get below the surface and understand how best to architect and deploy these technologies to cost effectively solve business problems.

• Host-based virtualization
• OS-based virtualization
• Physical to Virtual Migration
• Virtual appliances
• Workload mobility
• ESX, Hyper-V, XenServer , Solaris Containers

This topic relates to the Data Center coverage area - New and future data center technologies for server and storage virtualization, compute densities, server and storage management improvements, and data center physical and logical architectures.

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