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My reply is inline.
-Nick Kwiatkowski
MSU Telecom Systems
From: MSU Network
Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lounds,
Victor
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] Virtualization - IT Exchange
>Are you familiar of
what it is?
YES
>Are you using
virtualization in a department/college, test environment or home setting?
We have virtualized
approximately 60 or so machines in production. I also have two machines
virtualized at home.
>What are the benefits
of virtualization for you?
Reduced hardware, cooling, power
and space (physical). Also, better utilization of hard-drive, RAM and
Processor time.
>What are the concerns
of virtualization for you?
Heavier reliance on a smaller
subset of hardware. (More eggs in one basket). Now if we have a
hardware failure, it will impact multiple services rather than one.
>What implementation
of virtualization are you utilizing if any?
We are using DAL-1 (bare-metal
hardware virtualization by Lucent Technologies) for most of our PBX equipment
(this has been in place for > 5 years). We are also starting to do
some virtualization of some of our smaller applications using VMware – these
are only 5 or so machines at this time.
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