Nemertes Solution Briefing Card: Hardware Abstraction with Virtual Machines

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Nemertes Solution Briefing Card: Hardware Abstraction with Virtual Machines

Risk Level 4
 
Solution Risk: 4 – High Risk
This solution is suitable for Aggressive IT organizations 

Description: 	             Hide the details of different server models/brands with virtual machines with 1-to-1 ratio between VM and physical machines. Simplify application development and OS management, configuration and patching by standardizing on VM as “platform”


Risk Components: 	Few Vendors, complexity, ROI uncertain


Next Inflection:	     Medium Risk/early adopter in 18-24 months 


Expected ROI:	           Uncertain


Pitfalls:	                 If Hypervisor software requires frequent updates, ROI of solution erodes


Vendors:	             Microsoft,  SWSoft, VMWare, Virtual Iron, XenSource 


New Skills:	              Configuration and driver support for Hypervisor; managing virtual machines and physical machines in a mixed environment; BCP/DR with virtual machines


Related Technologies:   SAN, NAS, blade servers, provisioning software, patch management

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	Best practices and recommendations      Pitfalls
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	Peer recommendations	                      Case studies


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