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WikitipTime to think about heterogeneous virtualizationOrganizations that have avoided heterogeneous storage virtualization completely will increasingly pay a price in terms of reduced efficiencies, greater complexity and less IT flexibility. While the risk of staying the course may be lower and less disruptive in the near term, CIO's should carefully weigh those risks against cost and complexity and begin to implement heterogeneous storage virtualization strategies with the objective of better utilizing installed assets to offset virtualized appliance and license costs. |
Featured Case Study
Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. |
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Featured How-To Note |
Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center. | |||
