Virtualization with its pros has some of the cons too along with the challenges. Though it has made it mark as an essential component in IT, enterprises and organizations continue to be plagued by few of its issues. The data center managers have to deal with the upfront investment, manage the budget by delivering the expectations of the competitive advantages. Strict adherence to IT standard and compliance with industry and government regulation is also mandatory. Application Administration and infrastructure administrators are required to possess excellent skills when it comes to handling the hardware and software and another operational environment.
Best Practices for implementing Virtualization: Compliance to the regulations and adherence to the best practices which consist of great methodologies and activities can reap good results. Here is a quick look at the best practices
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of the virtualization environment plays a good role in IT organization that needs to be understood well before migrating to the physical server to a virtual system set up.
- Plan and consider the role of each virtual system while finalizing the virtual system configuration, server and storage options for workload sharing and serving the host server.
- Consider the components that are required to scale up a virtualizor system and evaluate the component like different accounts, network setup, host hardware, storage, and the hypervisor.
- Ensure the backup of all virtual machines and systems. This will help in eradicating and avoiding any mishappenings and ensuring the rapid and reliable data recovery procedures in place.
- Security of the virtual environment is quite vulnerable. Most of the organizations focus on efficient management and securing the physical systems. Virtualized system requires the proper management of the monitor the server security and patch updates along with the regular scan for the viruses and several threats.
For the virtual system to function efficiently, it is really important to deploy the system and application properly along with following the standard IT policies and compliance to regulations to reduce the risk of maintaining the system in good health.
