Capacity Planning and Performance Management
using Server Virtualisation

Server virtualisation products are increasingly becoming the standard in many data centres. These allow multiple guest operating systems to run under a single host operating system on a server, thereby appearing as separate discrete servers.

While virtualisation has been around on the mainframe platform for many decades it has only been used relatively recently on mid-range operating systems such as Unix variants and Microsoft Windows Server. On Unix platforms virtualisation has become popular due to vendor-led initiatives such as containers in Solaris. However, virtualisation on Microsoft Windows Server has only more recently been taken seriously with the increased popularity of VMware. Meanwhile Microsoft are commited to ship their Windows Server 2008 Virtualisation offering 180 days after the launch of Windows Server 2008.

• Understand the main mid-range and distributed server virtualisation technologies
• Effectively monitor both guest and host operating systems
• Decide which servers are strong candidates for consolidation through server virtualisation
• Determine which guest operating systems should reside on which host servers
• Capacity manage virtualised environments

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