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By: Jeff Vilimek » RFI: PC and Mac Based Virtualization

Jeff Vilimek » RFI: PC and Mac Based Virtualization — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:36:26 +0000

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By: Jeff Vilimek

Jeff Vilimek — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:51:49 +0000

Thanks John! Great point and I think I’ll expand that “why” list to include that. I was trying to keep it concise but that is a really key benefit. De-coupling from the hardware for both hardware life-cycle management as well as hardware maintenance and support with little or no impact to running workloads.

By: John Green

John Green — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:46:05 +0000

Hi Jeff. I’ve found a particularly useful scenario for virtualizing a server is to remove legacy HW without distrubing applications that may have outlived our ability to support them or the application is too costly to replace. By converting it to a VM you can minimize the HW maintenance costs and leverage virtualization to provide disaster recovery capability. I guess this would fall into the consolidation/cost category, but with a twist.

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Wed, 12 May 2010 02:11:14 +0000

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