| | |  | Green Lean | Home » » » » IT Virtualization Best Practices: A Lean, Green Virtualized Data Center Approach | | | | | | | Description: | | Written by experts in the field, this indispensable guide provides a services-patterns approach to transforming IT infrastructures to a virtualized state to derive compelling business value for organizations. Thorough and informative, this account will demonstrate how businesses can become more productive in managing overall costs, more agile in provisioning new business services and improving time to market, more proactive in catering to rapidly changing business models and client demands, and more charged as an engine for fueling business growth. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Mickey Iqbal | | Paperback:
| 300 pages | | Publisher:
| Mc Press | | Publication Date:
| January 01, 2011 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1583473548 | | Product Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.88 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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MeasureIT Book ReviewMar 30, 2011
By Clea Zolotow
See my book review here at the current issue of MeasureIT! […]
Virtualization can provide many benefits to a datacenter. It can provide a decreased footprint
resulting in energy savings. It can provide a more robust datacenter environment, decreasing
downtime and increasing SLA attainment. It can provide cost savings and a positive ROI for
capital and run-time savings. However, just the act of virtualization does not necessarily realize
the benefits. A successful transformation path includes much more than just the act of
virtualization. This book, IT Virtualization Best Practices, provides a methodology to ensure a
successful path to transformation and realize the many benefits of transfroming the datacenter.
The authors provide a structured, tiered approach to transformation utilizing the underpinnings of
virtualization. They start by providing a set of service patterns to maximize the value to the
business from the process of transformation and virtualization. It's also interesting to note that this
methodology need not be used for an initial first transformation. It can also be used for the retransformation
of an existing data center to obtain benefits not realized in an initial transformation,
whether applied to virtualization, cloud-computing, resource pool sharing, or any other current
and future transformational technology.
After an initial technical discussion about the various types of virtualization and the necessity of
virtualization for a green datacenter, the book starts its highly structured approach to data center
transformation by utilizing the Seven Lean Levers: segmenting complexity, redistributing activities,
pooling resources, flexibly balancing resources, reducing incoming hardware infrastructure and
work, reducing non-value adding work, and standardizing operations. Each of these Lean Levers
is applied not only towards virtualization but also the transformation process.
The next seven chapters are organized around the virtualization patterns corresponding to each
Lean Lever. This allows an effective, understandable methodology to apply complex technical
and business re-engineering within a Lean Framework. One of the best chapters here is on the
"Lean Metric Segmenting Complexity" in Chapter 5. This chapter discusses specific Critical
Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that can be used during the
transformation. These include specific KPIs such as "applying unit costs to all consumed server
resources." While some of these may be obvious, it's a good blueprint to follow when starting a
data center transformation.
After the service patterns, there is a chapter on Virtualization Transformation Deployment, which
explores the deployment process necessary to ensure a successful transformation. This chapter
is geared towards the project management team and contains organizational phases to complete
transformation successfully. This chapter contains the end-to-end deployment of the
virtualization transformation in four phases: planning, diagnostic, future state design, and
implementation for the PMs use. The book ends with a simplistic but effective business case
template.
This book shows what a well-instrumented and measured transformation effort along with what
virtualization technologies can do to help reduce energy costs, stop server sprawl, and promote
standardization within the environment by utilizing service patterns. It's a good read for any IT
professional and a must-read for any IT professional thinking about transforming their datacenter
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The "IT Virtualization" reference bookFeb 06, 2011
By Riousset
"Claude"
"IT Virtualization Best Practices" written by four leading IT experts in systems, services and data centers areas, so logically making this book the REFERENCE for our industry and any IT readers from CxO to Architects profiles.
The different angles choosen by the team make it relevant from an historical approach to the IT evolution and up to a consulting practice reference due to the various analyzes from business to finance and IT levels.
An advisor guide on the road of virtualization and cloud model.
Claude Riousset
IBM Executive Architect
Excellent details on all aspects of IT VirtualizationFeb 09, 2011
By John
This book provides an excellent resource for a best practices approach for IT virtualization. Everything related to IT virtualization is covered. The book starts with an overview of IT virtualization and gives examples of the significant energy savings and financial benefits from using IT virtualization. Later chapters give details on how to optimize the benefits of IT virtualization through Lean Methodologies, Virtualization Patterns, and other best practices techniques. The authors discuss the toolsets they use to optimize implementation of IT virtualization. Overall, this is an excellent book for anyone who needs to know the best ways to create a green data center with IT virtualization.
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