Best practices for using server virtualization in your storage
environment  Server virtualization can lower costs and increase
capacity on physical servers by sharing them among several
virtual machines. However, there are a number of best practices
to consider when using or thinking      Requires Free Membership
to View  about server virtualization.  When using virtualization
systems from VMware Inc. and other vendors, it's important to
remember that there's a physical server with physical storage
underneath the virtualization layer. This means that you still
can't exceed the capacity of your basic hardware, and
virtualization will give you less total capacity because of the
overhead of the system. So while you can balance your load by
putting applications with different peak loads on different
virtual machines (VMs), you must still respect the limits of
your hardware.  Because of this, server virtualization software
requires a slightly different set of best practices when there
are problems with your storag