Three Virtualization Management Myths Busted

Virtualization promises significant dollar savings. Since reducing cost is perhaps the biggest goal in today's corporate data centers, it's no wonder that virtualization efforts are accelerating. So far it's been easy to virtualize commodity servers that host less-critical utility applications. But after virtualizing all this "low-hanging fruit," IT now has to successfully virtualize higher-priority I/O intensive applications such as Exchange, SQL server, Oracle or SAP to improve its return on investment. Performance is critical for these business applications, and ensuring production performance when they become virtualized is a difficult challenge. IT shops fooled by common virtualization management myths can't properly manage virtual enterprise infrastructure comprised of both clustered host servers and SAN-based storage. This presentation bust three common virtualization myths:

Learning Objectives

Virtualization Guarantees Performance
Virtualized IT Silos Can Be Managed in Isolation an Virtualized IT Can Be Managed Separately from Physical Infrastructure