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Peer Incite: Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009.
WikitipDemartek Publishes Article on the Hyper-V P2V Conversion Process and Storage ConsiderationsThere are various reasons why it may be necessary to convert physical systems directly into virtual machines (VMs). Aging, out-of-warranty or failing hardware may necessitate such a migration, as may the simple need to consolidate underutilized systems to reduce operating costs. It is certainly possible to manually build guest VMs and migrate the applications and resources from the physical systems over to them, but this can be a time-consuming and error-prone operation. A simpler alternative is to perform a physical to virtual (P2V) migration to get these servers into a virtualized server environment. Here we’ll discuss Hyper-V P2V conversion, as well as the storage considerations around such a conversion. In a Hyper-V environment, in addition to the manual process, there are two methods of migrating physical servers to virtual servers that are considerably less error-prone than manual methods. These are to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 SP1 and, somewhat surprisingly, using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and Vmdk2Vhd (VMDK to VHD) tools. Of these two, SCVMM provides the more seamless and complete migration experience... Full details are available at: Demartek Publishes Article on the Hyper-V P2V Conversion Process and Storage Considerations |
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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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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. | |||
