Virtualised data centre application guide

Overview

The introduction of virtualisation, creates many new management challenges for IT organizations. These new challenges arise from two basic causes:

1. Virtual servers by their very nature must be managed differently from physical servers – especially given the current limitations of VMware’s tools.

2. Data centers are only partially virtualised. That is, servers may be physical machines or they may be virtual machines residing on physical machines with other virtual servers.

This mix of virtual and physical servers adds a new level of complexity to management operations. As a result, IT organizations must re-think the way they manage their increasingly dynamic mix of virtual and physical servers.

Read this white paper to learn more about how to manage this emerging virtualised server environment.