Category — Virtualization

So, in the last post, I talked about the hardware savings virtualization could bring you. Saving money on electricity, cooling, servers – virtualization pays for itself quickly in most cramped datacenter environments.  Monetary and physical savings however,  are not the only benefits to moving to a virtualized environment.

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I’ve been bitten.

I think snapshots were what did it, but I’m not sure.

I just know that within the past few months, I’ve seriously begun pushing to move *all* of my systems to VMWare. Virtualize the whole 9 yards – databases, app servers, directory servers, VoIP servers, everything. This is going to sound almost like a VMWare advertisement, but I’ll try to focus on virtualization in a generic sense. It almost sells itself, if you take the time to evaluate it. This is part 1 of probably a 3 part series.
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