Data Management Research Library

Now that virtualization is becoming mature, experts in the space realize that not all advice is relevant for all IT groups. This videocast series provides virtualization infrastructure advice for IT groups at different stages of development, from experts with real-world field experience with virtualization.

This Q&A videocast discusses the major issues that have stalled virtualization projects or caused them to fail outright and what new technologies and process approaches make success more likely. The videocast highlights a technology approach from HP and Citrix for server installation, configuration and management environment intended for small to mid-sized businesses. The Q&A portion covers issues of:

• What things should IT groups know would be different about in virtualized environment compared to the typical way of deploying and managing servers and applications?
• Why have IT groups NOT pursued virtualization?
• What are the top things that IT groups get wrong when they start out, that halt their progress with virtualization?
• What is the base level of infrastructure/configuration that IT groups should deploy to support a virtualization project? What do you see as the tradeoffs between various server form factors at this stage? (e.g. racks, towers, blades, etc)

Other videocasts in this Q&A series:

When you get serious about virtualization: Top Considerations This Q&A videocast provides the best practices and experience of HP's field organization with clients who have moved their virtualized infrastructures pilot projects to more serious, production infrastructures. The webcast deals with storage, server, network, planning and staffing issues which successful IT groups deal in serious virtualization infrastructures.

How to improve performance, security and manageability of VMware
This Q&A videocast discusses the issues which advanced users of VMware experience, including management, performance and security. It also reviews the new integrated version of ESX, ESXi, for existing VMware customers as well as those trying virtualization for the first time.