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Published on: June 09, 2009
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Unknown
Length: 9 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
Managing a next generation datacenter (NGDC) requires coping with continuous change and struggling with day-to-day reality of increasing complexity. Workloads may be deployed on multiple hardware platforms, virtualized, or possibly moved to an off-premise cloud such as Amazon EC2. Patch management, compliance and constant software updates require an ever larger slice of scarce people resources. Combining these requirements with vertical scalability, consolidation, asset management and traceability, storage costs, and workflow automation can be overwhelming when budgets and resources are simultaneously shrinking.

To tackle these demands, virtualization and the ability to fit more server instances onto a given set of physical machines stormed into data centers. Since virtual machines can be more readily moved, IT can be nimble in responding to problems or new business needs. Consolidation gains from virtualization are real and now proven. However, as organizations have experienced the operational mechanics of virtualization, particularly in hybrid virtual and physical environment, critical bottlenecks have surfaced.

• Management tools do not span physical and virtual


• Standardized release processes in hybrid environments are almost impossible


• Virtual machine sprawl spreads like a virus.


• Security is dramatically more complex when infrastructure is virtualized.

If you have successfully navigated through the initial VMware integration in your datacenter and are facing the above challenges, what should you do?

Look to new innovations and techniques that are designed from the ground up to build, optimize, manage and deploy logical servers in enterprise-class, modular datacenters. In this white paper you will learn how to unify and automate management of virtual, physical, cloud & hybrid computing infrastructures while automatically building software stacks with JeOS (just enough operating system) that are up to 95% smaller and can be dynamically provisioned in seconds - all with management infrastructure that spans physical, virtual and cloud, Linux and Windows.