Virtualization Essentials

Examining Virtual Infrastructure Performance Capabilities

Our efforts so far have focused on virtual machines and the virtual environment that supports them. While this is valuable, the result has to be that the applications deployed on physical servers can be migrated to these virtual environments and benefit from properties you have already investigated. Applications are groups of programs that deliver services and information to their users. These services and information provide income for their companies. Fearful that the service will be compromised, the groups responsible for the applications (the application owners) are often reluctant to make changes to their environments. Application owners are unwilling to risk application changes that ...