Cloud Computing: The Physical-to-Virtual Cookbook – Part 1

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Don Magrogan.

While many organizations have signed on to SaaS or piloted cloud computing deployments, lots of businesses continue to run critical production enterprise services in traditional data centers with applications running on dedicated hardware.

Why? Moving to a virtualized environment for new applications is easy; moving legacy applications and services is tough. Given the unique application-by-application analysis that is required to move environments to a virtual environment, whether a hypervisor in the data center, or a private or public cloud, many enterprises struggle with a psychical-to-virtual migration…

In this multi-part series, we present a cookbook approach to the steps and tools that are required to successfully migrate application from a traditional physical data center environment to a virtual one, based on a migration we conducted for a national telecommunications company. We will also highlight some of the pitfalls along the way and how to overcome them…

Read more from the source @ http://www.networkcomputing.com/virtualization/the-physical-to-virtual-cookbook-part-1/240012586