Virtual Machines in the Data Center
Learn about virtualization, designing applications for virtual machines (VM), and virtual machine clock problems.
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Virtualization
Virtualization promised developers a common hardware appearance across the bewildering array of physical configurations in the data center. It promised data center managers that it would rein in “server sprawl” and pack all those extra web servers running at 5 percent utilization into a high-density, high-utilization, easily managed whole. Guess which story turned out to be more compelling?
On the down side, performance is much less predictable. Many virtual machines can reside on the same physical hosts. It’s rare to see VMs move from one host to another, because it’s disruptive to the guest. (The “host operating ...