Are you familiar of what it is?

 

>>Yes

 

Are you using virtualization in a department/college, test environment or home setting?

 

>>Department, both for test and production

 

What are the benefits of virtualization for you?

 

>>Low cost for deploying new applications (no need to purchase hardware)

>>Low cost for deploying new windows servers (Datacenter edition licensing for virtualization, unlimited free windows licenses running under HyperV on Server2008

>>It's GREEN!

 

What are the concerns of virtualization for you?

 

>>Sprawl

 

What implementation of virtualization are you utilizing if any?

 

>> MS Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V 2 node failover cluster w/ iSCSI SAN

 

Ehren J. Benson, MCSE

Windows Systems Administrator

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

1209 A Biomed Phys Sci

 

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Subject: [MSUNAG] Virtualization - IT Exchange

Are you familiar of what it is?

 

Are you using virtualization in a department/college, test environment or home setting?

 

What are the benefits of virtualization for you?

 

What are the concerns of virtualization for you?

 

What implementation of virtualization are you utilizing if any?

 

 

Your feedback is appreciated to help each other have a better understanding of what is being done out in the field, you can refer to this as a ‘roll call’ if you’d like.

 

VL