Virtualisation Toolkit

Story: Virtualisation is a priority, say CIOs

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server virtualisation growth

A growing number of businesses are adopting server virtualisation to reduce costs and increase efficiency. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2011, over 1.1 million virtualised servers will have shipped. While adoption rates are set to soar, it is important that businesses put the right processes and tools in place to ensure the successful deployment of virtualised servers connected to SANs.

Adoption of virtual server environments is somewhat inhibited by the limited flexibility with respect to storage access. All virtual machines on a physical server currently share the same external storage resources and a single set of FC addresses provided by the underlying OS or hypervisor. This limits storage management, QoS and resource accounting capabilities and gives rise to data protection concerns in the SAN.

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