Is a 100% Virtualized Environment Possible?
85 days ago
Organizations that have virtualized their environments often virtualize only a portion of their servers, leaving some servers running on standalone physical hardware. Is a 100% virtualized environment possible? Certainly it is, because almost all workloads can be virtualized, but there are some arguments against completely virtualizing your environment.
I recently wrote about an experience I had with a complete data center power failure. The problems resulted from all the DNS servers being virtualized and until the host servers and storage-area network were online no DNS was available, which made it difficult for anything in the environment to function properly. Having a DNS server and Active Directory domain controller running on a physical server would have been a great benefit in that situation.
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