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GettingStartedwithVirtualization
 
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This content was adapted from Internet.com'sServerWatch, Enterprise Networking Planet, IT Career Planet, CIO Update, and Enterprise IT Planet Web sites. Contributors: Ryan Bass,Lynn Haber, Brian Gardner, Richard Adhikari,and Rafael Hernandez.
Getting started with Virtualization, An Internet.com Networking eBook.© 2009, Jupitermedia Corp.
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For Starters:The VirtualizationPerformance Quandary
Rafael Hernandez 
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The Trouble With Virtual Disaster Recovery
Richard Adhikari 
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Planning Data Protection Into Your Virtual Infrastructure
Brian Gardner 
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Windows Virtualization:Get Started With Hyper-V
Ryan Bass
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The Growing Importance of  Virtualization Certification
Lynn Haber 
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irtualization can have a huge effect on produc-tivity and cost savings when consolidating wide-ranging workloads, but getting the best per-formance out of your software is something elseentirely. Here are some of the things you'll want tokeep an eye on if you're determined to get the mostout of the technology.
Software Soft Spots
Those joyous testimonies of aneffortless move to a virtualizedplatform are quite true withmost small-scale projects.There isn't much difficulty inrunning a few operating sys-tem images on relatively mod-ern hardware, each machinehandling a few tasks by itslonesome. Things tend to geta whole lot trickier when youscale up the workload.Every technology has those tempting "what if" possi-bilities attached to them. Thoughts of quickly migrat-ing everything you and your company have workedhard to build up over the years to newer methods of doing things always has pitfalls, even with moremature products in the virtualization category.The reality is that not all tasks are well suited to rununder a virtual OS, the usual culprits being softwarethat's highly resource intensive and I/O bound appli-cations, similarly there's software that just doesn'twant to play nice for whatever reason and is best leftto run on its own machine where it can happily run itscourse.Software response time undervirtualization is also a keypoint to consider, if you startloading up a number of sys-tem images, each running afew tasks, things can get a lit-tle hairy. Some software isn'tnecessarily resource intensivebut requires snappy systemresponse in order to performat its best. So when usersstart leaning on the applica-tion you may find it perform-ing worse than on minimallyspecced hardware.The fact of the matter is that there is a performancepenalty with any action carried out on a virtualizedsystem. An action that's inconsequential on a low-power machine can suddenly become burdensome oneven the most powerful of servers. The prime candi-dates for consolidating are generally low usage, low
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Getting Started with Virtualization, An Internet.com Networking eBook. © 2009, Jupitermedia Corp.
Getting Started with Virtualization
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For Starters: The VirtualizationPerformance Quandary
By Rafael Hernandez
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The fact of the matter is that there is a performance penaltywith any action carried out on a virtualized system
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