Gartner Cites Six Best Practices In Virtualizing Servers

While consultants may recommend large-scale systems, analysts suggest companies start small and achieve the concrete server consolidation they’re seeking in a first phase.

The biggest change underway in the data center is virtualization, said two Gartner IT analysts this week.  Gartner analysts have had “a thousand conversations” with clients on the subject, and as a result, they have come up with a list of six best practices for server virtualization.

Consultants may recommend large-scale server virtualization. Gartner said start small and achieve the concrete server consolidation that you’re seeking in a first phase.” The second phase is more strategically important, more complex to implement and provides far more value for the customer,” say Thomas Bittman and John Enck in comments accompanying the list. The second phase concentrates on the flexible allocation of resources to respond to business demand, such as starting up more virtual machines or assigning more resources to a virtual machine with a priority task. “In this phase, the focus shifts to delivering new services or improving the quality and speed of service,” they wrote. In other words, start small, but think big, they say.

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