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In this edition of Performance Beat, we focus on virtualization, one of the today’s most important technologies for doing “more with less”, driving maximum performance and value for server deployments. Our keynote White Paper provides practical recommendations from Mentora’s hands-on experience making virtualization work for our clients. As always, we appreciate your interest, and welcome your feedback. |
The Hands-On Guide to Virtualization: 5 Proven Technologies & Processes
Virtualization is now mainstream, but many organizations continue to
struggle with achieving the promised cost benefits. Learn five key decisions
that will get you the right virtualization technologies and migration strategies that deliver virtualization that works for your organization.
Learn some short and sweet virtualization technology tips and hear how a leading
online service provider overcame the unique challenges of migrating to virtualization.
This whitepaper offers a practical, “how-to” approach to virtualizing servers.
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| Is 'VM Stall' the Next Big Virtualization Challenge? |
Editor’s Note:
Mentora’s clients have avoided “Virtualization stall,” delivering financial and application performance benefits in even the most demanding, customer-facing, revenue-generating applications. 
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 Many companies have virtualized the low-risk applications with good results. However, when it comes to Tier 1 business services, customer-facing environments enterprise-wide systems, third-party applications, multi-platform services, and composite applications, virtualization projects often stall. CA's Andi Mann discusses what’s behind the dilemma and what can organizations do about it. |
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| Hyper-V vs. VMware Evolves with New Releases |
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Editor’s Note:
Both Hypervisors have advantages, yet Mentora recommends VMware unless you are a committed Microsoft shop. |
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 This brief article and associated podcast summarize the new features being released in Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s vSphere 4.1. The major addition to Hyper-V is Dynamic Memory, which is their response to VMware’s Memory Overcommit feature. VMware updates include Storage and Network I/O Control, which enables users to establish quality of service priorities for VMs. New pricing models are also discussed. |
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| Intel Builds a Private Cloud |
Editor’s Note:
Helpful article if you’re considering charging back for computing capacity consumed by business units or departments. A similar self-service environment can be established in a third-party hosting facility. |
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By using IaaS and PaaS to build a self-service portal for its research and development group, Intel was able to show users what they were consuming and how much it cost the business, without impeding operations. |
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| The Virtual / Cloud Latency Effect: Enterprises Struggle with Long-Distance Data Relationships |
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Each client application may require a specific mix and configurations of server, storage and networking solutions in order to overcome potential latency introduced by virtual/cloud environments. |
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 One of the larger unknowns about both cloud and virtual technology is how big an impact it will have on existing physical data center infrastructure and the data environments they support. Data Center consolidation has been a major trend in the past few years, pushing data farther away from its owners. Yet people still want to manage data centrally, and they want their data to remain within the data center for use in the cloud and for back-up and archival purposes. As IT decision-makers move further into cloud and virtualization technology, there is a bit of trial and error-based learning going on regarding the correct relationships between server, storage and networking. |
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| In Upcoming Issues |
- How to use Virtualization in Development and Test Environments
- When Cloud Reigns: Where Cloud Delivers Measurable Advantages
- Tuning Your Application for the Traffic Peaks Such as Health Care Open Enrollment and the Holiday Rush
- Delivering a Successful SaaS Model with Managed Hosting
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| Today’s Poll |
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| What challenges have you faced virtualizing your server environment? |
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Capacity planning and
management of the virtualized
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Acquiring the skill set to migrate
and manage the new environment |
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Securing the virtualized
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Reconciling the different roles of
physical and virtualized
workloads |
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None of these |
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Not applicable; we have not
started to virtualize our
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Virtualization done right!
sponsored by Mentora Group |
| Whether you want to virtualize the infrastructure you have now, virtualize dedicated servers in our data centers or buy slices of our secure high-availability virtual platform, Mentora has what you need. |
We remove the hype, we've tested the hypervisors, we know the pitfalls, we've validated hardware configurations. We know what works and how to deliver a solution that fits your business and technical requirements.
www.mentora.com |
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