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Peter Williams

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What's protocol for transforming a static datacenter to a dynamic datacenter?

I'm an IT Manager and my company is trying to find ways to lower costs. How would I go about transforming a static datacenter to a dynamic datacenter?

Posted July 1, 2009 in Servers and Storage

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Posted on July 2, 2009
Sidh

"VIRTUALIZTION" is the PROTOCOL.

There are many approach but best to leverage Open Source technologies. XEN ( http://www.xen.org/ ) and Linux OS.
It's support many linux (most of major...).

This will provide you on demand the number of OS, Storage and Apps you need on minimal number of H/W. Everything is Dynamic here - starting from OS allocation to storage and network...

On a good physical system you can run 16-32 logical OS's and each are independent of each other. It's also known as "Cloud Computing" / "Server Virtualization" etc...

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