{"id":68305,"date":"2022-10-11T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4000438"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:20:55","slug":"9-things-you-shouldnt-virtualize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=68305","title":{"rendered":"9 things you shouldn\u2019t virtualize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Virtualization can be a good way to make your servers more efficient. However, it isn\u2019t right for every organization or every use case. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Virtualization has changed a lot in the past decade. It goes hand-in-hand with buzzwords like cloud computing<\/a>, but virtualization has been the technology behind shared servers for a long time. Virtualized machines are private \u2014 unlike a public, shared cloud. Today, they are often used for server consolidation or application testing. This allows for enterprises to both<\/a> continue to use legacy apps across multiple system types and partition their servers.<\/p>\n

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When should you use virtualization? It has many benefits, including potentially saving space and money on physical hardware and offering better consistency and reliability. Virtualization today is often done using containerization, in which operating system libraries and applications dependencies are packaged in a container which can run on any infrastructure. It\u2019s \u201cportable<\/a>,\u201d cutting down on the time it takes to create, configure and deploy.<\/p>\n

However, there are some things that are better served by a physical environment. Knowing these will help decide how to split your setup between physical and digital realms.<\/p>\n

Top 9 things you shouldn\u2019t virtualize<\/h2>\n

Projects with small IT teams<\/h3>\n

Just as it\u2019s possible to have too many cooks in a kitchen, it\u2019s possible to have too many kitchens and too few cooks. Take careful stock of your existing people and resources before making the decision to virtualize.<\/p>\n

John Livesay, vice president and chief sales officer of InfraNet Technologies Group, said businesses that have \u201cless IT staff and fewer security concerns\u201d might be better served by a cloud provider than by handling virtualization on their own. Creating a virtual machine won\u2019t iron out struggles the team may already be facing due to stretching too far.<\/p>\n

Highest-performance systems<\/h3>\n