What to ask your server vendors about virtualization

Knowing the answers to these questions will help you better understand your vendor's virtualization strategy.

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Knowing the answers to these questions will help you better understand your vendor's virtualization strategy.

• What type of partitioning does your system employ: physical, logical or virtual?
  
• How does the system enable dynamic partitioning?
  
• Which servers and operating systems do you support with your virtualization technology?
  
• How can I move virtual machines across different platforms?
  
• Can I manage several different platforms with one tool?
  
• How do you enable grid computing?
  
• Can I buy capacity on demand, and how does that work?
  
• What do I need to purchase to make the virtualization system work, and how much will this cost?
  

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