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Sep 9 2009   6:15PM GMT

Overheard - virtual switch



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
server virtualization, Virtualization, virtualization management
“If vMotion moves a workload from one machine to another to balance out load or to recover from failure, that’s great.  But if you have to manually go back and reconfigure the switches, that’s not so good.”

Joe Skorupa, as quoted in Virtual network switches add scalability to server virtualization

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is virtual switch.

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Jun 29 2009   3:40PM GMT

Overheard - server virtualization



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
server virtualization, server sprawl, virtualization sprawl
In the absence of standards, users and administrators configure virtual machines on spec, often overallocating resources to VMs, which creates waste and inefficiency. This problem is exacerbated in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), in which large volumes of VMs are often created over a short period of time.

Jeff Byrne, Curbing virtual server sprawl in growing virtualized environments
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