As more companies begin to move their applications into the cloud, many are finding out that not all applications are created equally. By that, I mean not all applications are tailor-made to migrate into the cloud. Part of the problem for enterprise organizations is the workload demand that certain applications require: either a large number of processing cores or larger amounts of memory than traditional cloud architectures can accommodate. While virtualization technology is normally the answer to many cloud-related questions, this time virtualization has to be used and thought of in a different way in order to meet the challenge.
When we typically talk about virtualization, we do so in terms of partitioning or making many smaller virtual machines out of a single larger physical machine. In doing so, we optimize the workload of a single physical machine, but what happens when you need to go the other way? What happens when you need to optimize the workload demand of an application that requires more processor cores or more memory than a single physical machine has to offer?
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, If you're using server virtualization for more than consolidation, how about aggregation?- Infoworld Virtualization
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