VMworld Europe 2009 Presentation
An Optimized Approach to Workload Availability in Virtualized Environments
Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, not every application can or will be virtualized and the adoption of virtualization will bring with it a rise in the number of mixed physical and virtual environments. As a result, organizations of all sizes will struggle with the challenge of recovering and optimizing critical workloads in this more diverse IT landscape. While visualization has enabled new methods for predictable protection and recovery of physical workloads, at the same time it introduces new challenges for protecting virtualized workloads.
In this session, Bob Roudebush of Double-Take Software will address the technical considerations for providing high availability and disaster recovery of physical servers using traditional protection solutions as well as newer solutions that combine aspects of real-time data replication and full-server recovery. In addition, the session will cover options for protecting virtualized workloads including leveraging technologies like VMotion, SAN-based replication solutions and software-based replication and availability products.
