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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?
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"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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