What are the base physical systems for your virtualization plans? 2 or 4 processors? Memory? Disk? This question is sponsored by Microsoft.
Virtualization Hardware, Virtualization and hardware, Microsoft virtualization
For a midsize company, what situation do you think justifies a combination of physical blades and virtualized blades? Why not just go virtual altogether?
Virtualization and hardware, Virtualized Blades, Server virtualization
What are some key factors that helped you decide to implement virtualization in your current environment? Once you decided, how did you choose which vendor was right for you?
Virtualization and hardware, Virtualization Implementation, Virtualization Hardware
What tools are being used to diagram server architecture? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com
Virtualization strategies, Virtualization and hardware, Virtual Server Architecture
How integrated is blade technology into today's virtualization solutions? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com
Microsoft virtualization, Virtualization strategies, Blade Technology
I have 3 virtual machines on 1 Dell Poweredge server that is running VMware ESX 3.5. I want to increase the storage space on this server so is it possible to move the VM's off this server while i make the changes and reinstall ESX and add the VM's back?
What is virtualization’s impact on HBA drivers and zoning switches?
I am wanting to create a cluster of 12 physical machines to be able to run multiple virtual machines. For instance a windows 2003 server running exchange 2003. An linux server running mysql, and perhaps a few others but all in seperate controllable virtual machines that span and use the power of...
I'm want to upgrade the legacy hardware with VMware 2.x to New hardware with Vmware 3.5. What is the best practice.
Since virtualization allows one server to replace several non-virtual servers one would think this would be bad for HP,Dell, IBM and other server vendors. Yet it doesn't seemed to have caused the stock of these vendors to go down. Is this because the new virtual servers will cost more and have a...
Virtualization and hardware, Virtualization strategies, Virtual Servers
I just read your advice on <a href=http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid94_gci1274257_tax303723,00.html>performance monitoring for virtualization</a>. You said that translating virtual CPU calls to physicals ones was tough. Is this...
What are some of the differences between physical and virtual servers that I need to be aware of?
Server virtualization, Virtual Machines, Virtualization and hardware
I want to Cluster 2 ESX VI3 Servers. Should I use Veritas Cluster for ESX or VMware HA? I am told that VMware HA does not protect from individual VM failures whereas veritas does.
I am interested in bringing up an ESX Server to learn more. I have tried the Evals and am now willing to purchase the product. I have no need to purchase high-end hardware as there will be very few users. Does anyone have a specific hardware list (m/b model, etc)? Thanks in advance
We have some legacy applications running on Sun SPARC. The goal is to have them on XenServer VMs hosted on x86s. Any advice?
The cost of blades seems higher and the highly proprietary nature of blades seems to make it much less attractive. So is it better to virtualize blades or rack mounted servers? How do they compare in terms of power, HVAC, floorspace, racks and software costs?
How much performance loss is attributed to virtual machines (VMs) compared to stand alone servers? A VM server cannot be lossless because the VM software itself should consume some hardware resources.
Virtualization, Performance and availability, Virtualization and hardware


