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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
11h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

Identifying when not to virtualize

Not all applications or server workloads are good candidates for virtualization. It is important that these workloads are identified early on in the design process.

There are a number of reasons why a server or application may not be suitable for virtualization. Some of these include the following:

  • Vendor support
  • Licensing issues
  • Specialized hardware dependencies
  • High resource demand
  • Lack of knowledge or skillsets

A common reason to not virtualize an application or workload is the reluctance of a vendor to support their application in a virtual environment. As virtualization has become more common in the enterprise data center, this has become uncommon; but, there are still application vendors that will ...

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ISBN: 9781789801514