Companies in Virtualization Technology : Vmware,Microsoft,Xen,Virtual Iron

VMware is a market leader in Virtualization segment winning loads of customers every year. Since more customers are planning for implementing Virtual Infrastructure in their Data Centres demand for IT professionals with Virtualization experience is growing heavily. So many system administrators and network administrators are taking lot of interest in Vmware products like VI3 (Virtual Infrastructure 3), ESX Server, Virtual Centre, VMware Lab Manager, P2V etc. You will get to read about all these products on this blog. Also check out Virtualization Career Blog.

I've got news from some of my blog readers that
-Microsoft is hiring heavily for its Virtual Server Team
-Citrix may hire more people for its Xen & Virtualization team
-Vmware & EMC2 both are on a hiring spree & they may increase their Virtualization expertise team two fold soon
-Cisco has developed its core expertise,R & D centre on Network virtualization team & that team is also looking for many professionals to hire

So many people are searching for this term
"vmware interview questions" ,
"virtualization interviews" ,
"virtualization career" ,
"microsoft virtual server interview questions"
"Xen Virtualization implementation",
"Implementing Virtual Infrastructure",

So i've already started posting some of the interview questions related to Virtualization , vmware , EMC2 & u can find the first article "First round Vmware Interview Questions"
One more interview questions list related to Virtualization & VMware in Technical Interview Questions on Vmware virtualization

More interview questions will be posted every day.So keep reading this blog.

Virtualization in Storage Network Architecture

Video on Virtualization


Virtual Network Storage Architecture


Benefits of virtualization
- Significantly reduce downtime
- Improved performance: load spreading, balancing, multi-path, heuristic shifting
- Improve delivery and quality of storage services
- Simplify definition of storage policies and procedures.
- Managed file systems and volume mangers increase the scalability, reliability, security.
- Provides storage location and implementation transparency.
- Enables dynamic operations, storage systems reconfiguration and data location to change transparently to host environment.

Virtual Storage Appliance
- VTL (Virtual Tape Library) server.
- CDR (Continuous Data Replication) Backup/Recovery Server
- iSCSI server for Disaster Recovery
- Cluster System

Functionality of virtual storage subsystem
- Enhance the service quality of storage device/data, easier maintain system expansion, simplifies and centralizes the management of storage system, cut down the storage budget cost.
- Efficiently and simplify the functionality of following:
a. Data Backup and Restore
b. Cluster storage structure; enhance the capability of fault tolerance, I/O balancing, failover and fail-back.
c. 256 Snapshot Point in Time Data Replication
d. Data integration, migration and consolidation, simplify the management of storage system.
e. Disaster recovery, to rapidly resume system operation.
f. Load Spreading, Balancing, Caching, Security.

Above article courtesy:tekram.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=6

Virtualization from Sun Microsystems Video