The Hardware Components of Virtualization

Session Abstract:

There are many components of today's computer. These components have gotten better and faster and more capable every year. Here we will take a look at all the components needed to virtualize a server today. We'll talk about their performance as well as their capabilities and how the capability of each component contributes to virtualization capability. We'll look at:

Processors

Memory

I/O

Fiber Channel

Storage

VLANS

SR-IOV

Along the line we'll discuss how the growing capabilities of each of these enhances the capabilities of virtualization.

Learning Objectives:

Understand what has changed that makes virtualization better now than before.

Learn the capacity and understand the capability of shared resources on IBM Power Systems.

Learn some of where components are going in the future.

Audience:

Any Power Systems Administrator doing virtualization or planning for it.

Level:

This session is Intermediate.

Duration:

This is a 75 Minute Session.