A server virtualization project success story
Date: February 5th, 2010
Author: Scott Lowe
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Storage, RAM, Server Virtualization, Westminster College, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Scott Lowe
Westminster College's VMware ESX-based server consolidation project is in place and running very smoothly. The college's CIO details their solution and discusses why it's a success.
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Westminster College's recently completed virtualization project is the second part of what began quite a while back as an ad hoc way to retire some critically aging servers. The servers were still hosting Web applications that we were in the process of phasing out; as such, we didn't want to buy new servers and completely redeploy those services, so we put into place a couple of VMware ESX (3 & 3.5) servers and used PlateSpin's physical-to-virtual (P2V) software to remove the potential of hardware failure from the equation.
