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Virtualizing a Data Center

The two key impact points I currently see are:
1) For an existing Data Center, being that the engineering teams are hyper focused on P-to-V'ing the existing environment, without having a parallel team running trap lines to scope-in new solutions, as soon as we empty out rack space, new projects come in which require the newly emptied space.
2) Once a rack has been emptied either from being completely virtualized or a consolidation effort has taken place to completely empty racks, we now need to uplift those racks to accommodate higher power requirements and GigE copper (as an example).

I am 100% onboard with Virtualization and, if we could go backwards in time and build a virtual environment from the ground up, the foot print of the Data Center would be significantly smaller. Couple that with the considerably smaller foot prints of the new SAN environments and backup solutions and you've got a nice tight little Data Center that can service the same tens of thousands of end users at about one fifth the foot print.

After that, now that you are taking up considerably less floor space, what do you do to rebalance your cooling systems? Maybe start putting air dams under the floor to concentrate the chilled air only to the new consolidated area?

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Posted by: ikeeickholdt   Posted on: 08/06/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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