The Impact of Virtualization Intensity on Storage

The intensity of virtualization is increasing because the number of hosts increased and the number of virtual machines per host increase. Virtualization intensity is also increasing because IT professionals are virtualizing mission-critical applications like MS-SQL, Exchange, Oracle and others. As a result, the pressure on the storage infrastructure to deliver cost-effective performance is also increasing. It is clear that a little bit of flash was not enough. Join Storage Switzerland's George Crump and Tegile's Chris Tsilipounidakis for this 3-minute Storage Short as they discuss the impact of increased virtualization intensity on the storage infrastructure.