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Having virtualized nearly 100 applications over the last couple of months, I thought I'd pass along some of the things I've learned along the way. All were learned the hard way, except for the tip on Chrome which I found on the Internet.

What is a PlateSpin anyway?

More than 70% of US enterprise data centers will face tangible disruptions related to floor space, energy consumption and cost!!

Virtualization is a popular technology these days (rightly so) and is a perfect fit for a test environment where you wish to be able to quickly recover to a known point and potentially spawn additional copies of your test environment. I decided to investigate my options for performing a NetWare Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion and this article describes the process I ended up using to migrate some Physical NetWare servers to a Virtual test platform.

One of the nice things about OES2 SP1 Linux is the fact that it runs quite nicely as a para-virtualized VM in XEN. However, one thing we noticed after migrating an NSS volume from NetWare to the OES2 XEN VM was that disk performance was terrible. Here's a solution.

SLES 11 XEN optimization of virtual network bridges of SLES 10 SP2 Virtual Servers running OES2.