VirtualizationAdmin.com Monthly Newsletter of June 2008 Sponsored by: eG InnovationsWelcome to the VirtualizationAdmin.com newsletter by David Davis, VCP, CCIE. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on the world of Virtualization. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: ddavis@VirtualizationAdmin.com Know the Ins and Outs of your Virtual IT Infrastructure with the eG VM Monitor
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5. Virtualization Admin Tip of the MonthA common question that I get is what is the difference between VMware’s VMotion and SVMotion. While these two have similar names, their purpose is different. They both move “something” inside your VMware Infrastructure. The difference is that VMotion moves a VMware VM from one server to another, as long as both servers can access the same shared storage. SVMotion, on the other hand, moves ONLY the storage for a VM from one datastore to another. To learn more about these two different types of “VMware Motion”, click here. Know the Ins and Outs of your Virtual IT Infrastructure with the eG VM Monitor
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7. Ask David DavisQuestion How do I know which virtualization product is right for me? –Michael Answer This is a great question because there are so many different types of virtualization products available today and new product features coming out every day. There is also a lot of hype surrounding virtualization. The combination of the hype and quickly changing product matrix creates a lot of confusion for system administrators who are interested in implementing virtualization or just learning more about it. Most of the time when someone asks about “virtualization”, they are talking about server virtualization. However, that said, they could be talking about server, network, application, desktop, or storage virtualization. Let’s assume that the person asking this question is talking about server virtualization. I would break server virtualization products into 3 categories and I would assign the following products to those categories:
As you can imagine, the desktop virtualization products are for a user or admin to run a virtualized OS inside their desktop PC (not to be confused with “desktop virtualization”, where you virtualized end user desktops to run on enterprise servers). The next category is, what I called “entry level server” virtualization because these types of virtualization products are meant to run on servers but they are only meant to be used for small production environments, less critical environments, for testing, or for development. The last category is enterprise server virtualization. This is where products fit that are dedicated to providing the most reliable, feature rich, and highest performance virtualization solution. These products run allow the guest operating systems to run directly on the hardware, giving you the highest performance. On the other hand, these products are certainly the most costly virtualization products available. So, if you want to run a virtual PC inside your desktop PC, go for one of the desktop PC virtualization products. If you want to test server virtualization for free on a small server, go for an entry level server virtualization product. Finally, if you need an enterprise virtualization solution for your company, consider one of the enterprise server virtualization products I mentioned. Got a question for David Davis? Send it to ddavis@VirtualizationAdmin.com Know the Ins and Outs of your Virtual IT Infrastructure with the eG VM Monitor
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