End to end management of server virtualization

The server administrator to store the number of control? This issue was not a simple answer to resolve this issue needs to be responsible for server virtualization and storage devices, end-to-end management team, good communication.

As virtualization has changed the mode of interaction between storage and servers, and prompting many companies to network storage, communication and management in virtualization has become a big problem. In many organizations, servers and storage by the two team responsible for. This organizational structure is the lead agency on the application requirements and utilization of the lack of visibility, which is what decided the data center needs an important factor in how much storage capacity. This often requires the storage and server teams to share data and management decisions.

Administrators admit that they are trying to overcome this problem, to solve this issue needs better management and a clear role assignment.

United States Texas A & M University infrastructure, systems and services for the team lead systems engineer TomGolson server management team and store management team there are cultural differences in cognition. Although the expert server administrators are operating system and software applications, but they are better at the lines and equipment. Storage administrators need to provide more information to the server virtualization administrator, server virtualization, administrators do not need to focus on storage, they only need to know the adequacy of storage allocated to the virtual machine.

Golson said: "I do not think this issue relates to the control of. They relate to the tools on how to better allocation of responsibilities, I believe that when your storage products and virtualization products, good work, you certainly clear allocation of responsibilities. If not, then there are a large number of low-level decisions need to be made, storage and virtualization team of employees need to know more details about the other operations. "

Golson said his team of about eight months ago, the virtualization server, there are already 40-50% of infrastructure virtualization. He said the storage array vendor Xiotech in the integration of system management and server virtualization technology, outstanding performance, he was able to make decisions from the overall perspective.

He said: "You can not only from the server perspective or only from the storage point of view to make virtualization decisions we need to proceed from the overall decision-making employees of the store team to fully understand server virtualization needs two teams for more good communication. "

Concur Technologies, Inc., storage architect SeanGraver said, due to server virtualization to promote changes in the storage environment, server virtualization, administrators need more control.

He said: "This must proceed from the server side, which is to make a choice to increase the new load, and this is you have the ability to make a choice."

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