mary_brandel
Contributing Writer

What to ask your server vendors about virtualization

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Jun 21, 20041 min

Introduction
HP
IBM
Sun
VMware
What to ask

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?