Virtulization - Inhibitors to Server and Storage Virtualisation, and How to Mitigate Them

摘要

Virtualization is becoming one of the leading technologies being implemented in IT environments in order to decrease costs thru increased equipment utilization. Virtualization can occur at the server, storage, network, and application levels. The purpose of this paper is to review the benefits of server and storage virtualization and some of the implementation technologies that are out in the industry today. The paper will then go into further detail on the inhibitors to implementing those virtualization techniques. The paper will conclude with mitigation recommendations for those inhibitors.