Installation guide
complementary workloads in your organization, you can dynamically allocate resources to the
applications which are currently experiencing the greatest demand. If you have peak workloads that
you are currently provisioning inside your organization, you may be able to buy capacity on
demand externally and implement it efficiently using virtual technology.
Cost savings from server consolidation can be compelling. If you are not exploiting virtualization for
this purpose, you should start a program now. As you gain experience with virtualization, explore the
benefits of workload balancing and virtualized disaster recovery environments.
Virt u aliz at io n as a St an d ard So lu t io n
Regardless of the specific needs of your enterprise, you should be investigating virtualization as part
of your system and application portfolio as the technology is likely to become pervasive. We expect
operating system vendors to include virtualization as a standard component, hardware vendors to
build virtual capabilities into their platforms, and virtualization vendors to expand the scope of their
offerings.
If you donât have plans to incorporate virtualization in your solution architecture, now is a very good
time to identify a pilot project, allocate some underutilized hardware platforms, and develop expertise
with this flexible and cost-effective technology. Then, extend your target architectures to incorporate
virtual solutions. Although substantial benefits are available from virtualizing existing services,
building new applications with an integrated virtualization strategy can yield further benefits in both
manageability and availability.
You can learn more about Red Hatâs virtualization solutions at http://www.redhat.com/products/
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