If you want to take your network connection to a far corner of the house where the wireless signal can't reach, the best way to get this done is with a pair of PowerLine adapters. These little devices basically extend ...

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Amazon is offering universities free use of its cloud for research, advanced courses and possible new projects under a new AWS in Education program. Its eye on eventually replacing conventional academic investments in infrastructure, it's offering grants of $100 per student applicable to the use of its AWS infrastructure services in eligible courses at accredited universities.

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What I want is a highly available, highly reliable, and high performing hypervisor - however that can best be achieved. Whether on disk, on a chip, or in a cloud. Personally, I'd rather not have another set of disks to worry about, so ya, embed it on a chip.

Management is a whole other story. I don't need separate hardware, virtualization, operating systems, and applications ... management, monitoring, alerting, performance and capacity planning. C'mon. I need all layers managed from a single tool - hardware, hosts, guests, & apps. I need integration. What do I care if the hypervisor is up if the app is down?

 

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One of the pleasures of reading the The Server Room is taking part in various threads on the theme of "lessons learned." So when we hit upon the idea of distilling the collective wisdom of the Ars forums into an article on virtualization for a broader audience, the first thing we thought of was, "let's ask everyone to share their biggest virtualization deployment mistakes." The results so far are worth checking out for anyone who's about to make the jump to a virtualized server room.

I'll summarize just one of the issues highlighted so far, to give you a sense of the discussion.

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In spite of the fact that virtualization has officially been hot for well over two years, it's still fairly new to many businesses. Indeed, if the number and regularity of threads in the Ars forums discussing first-time virtualization deployments is any indication, there are plenty of businesses in categories ranging from SMB all the way up to the enterprise that are still just getting started with virtualization. And again, if the Ars forums are any indication, many first-time virtualization deployers are learning many of the same lessons. So wouldn't it be great, we thought, if we could distill the collective wisdom of regulars in The Server Room, our forum dedicated to servers and datacenters, into an article that could help others avoid common pitfalls and blunders in virtualization deployments?

To this end, we started a thread entitled, "Biggest mistake you (or someone else) has made in a virtualization deployment?" We had quite a few responses, many of which centered around a common set of basic themes. This article boils down that discussion into a set of six steps that everyone considering a virtualization deployment should follow if they want to avoid the most common pitfalls.

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