How to Implement Intel® Virtualization Technology on Digital Office Servers

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October 27, 2008 1:00 AM PDT


Challenge

Take advantage of Intel® Virtualization Technology at the server level in the Digital Office. Server virtualization is transforming the way leading IT organizations provision and manage their systems and applications, helping them consolidate their infrastructure, optimize utilization, reduce total costs, and improve business agility. With today's server virtualization software, multiple operating systems and software stacks can be consolidated on a single Intel® processor-based platform, and platform resources can be dynamically allocated to meet specific business and application requirements.

Solution

Consider virtualization to be a mainstream, core technology on servers and an essential capability for daily workflow, and use the Server Virtualization Resource Center. Key benefits of today's leading server virtualization software solutions include the following:

  • Flexible server consolidation: Through server virtualization, diverse operating systems and applications can be consolidated quickly and easily on 2-way to 16-way and larger platforms. This capability can help to reduce management cost and maximize each server’s usage.
  • Enhanced availability and security: Software faults and digital attacks are isolated within each virtual partition, and fail-over partitions provide an easy, cost-effective approach to tailoring availability.
  • Simpler OS and hardware migrations: Server virtualization enables legacy applications and their existing OS versions to be migrated without modification onto virtual partitions, making it simpler to enhance the performance of the applications.
  • Streamlined Test and Development: A single platform can host multiple test environments and multiple iterations of each software stack.
  • Increased Business Agility: A virtual partition can be provisioned or resized in minutes to accommodate new applications, increasing workloads and system maintenance.

 

The Server Virtualization Resource Center is a comprehensive online resource can help you take advantage of server virtualization to drive down your datacenter costs and improve business agility. It is divided into four categories:

  • About Server Virtualization: Get the basic facts about this critical technology, including how it works, what it can do for you, why it is so important, and what solutions are available today.
  • Strategies and Benefits: From consolidation to disaster recovery, virtualization offers advantages across your computing environment. Find out about today's core usage models and the value they deliver.
  • Intel® Virtualization Technology: Learn how Intel hardware support will extend the advantages of virtualization to deliver better value across a wider range of applications and environments.
  • Next Steps: Find out how you can best prepare and implement server virtualization, and learn about future developments that will continue to increase the value of this transformative technology.

 

This item is part of a series of that is introduced in the related item, "How to Implement Intel® Virtualization Technology in the Digital Office."

Resources

Enhanced Virtualization on Intel® Architecture-Based Servers