Bangalore: Virtualization has been among the hottest trending topics in recent times rubbing shoulders with cloud and big data. The hype created around virtualization can be attributed to the convenience it brings along with us by reducing the storage space required by any enterprise to store its most critical and valued data.

But no matter how luring any technology may sound, it has some downsides that drag it down. Here are four major mistakes that virtualization comes across:

1. Inadequate Memory:

One of the most common mistakes that implementation of virtualization comes across is the wrong assumption of the memory that will be needed. Usually, the common tendency is to hold back on VM RAM to accommodate more number of virtual machines on one server but this fails to yield desired results as performance degrades steeply. But this flaw can be easily be overcome by deploying a dynamic RAM and leaving an additional 1GB of RAM space to accommodate the virtualization host.

2. Inadequate Storage:

While migrating from a physical server to a virtualized server, the default storage configuration of virtualization servers results in the degraded performance of VM as compared to physical server. The problem arises because the physical server is split between disks whereas the default storage of virtualized server directs the data to a single virtualized disk thus hampering performance. To avoid such scenarios, VMs should be split in the same way as physical servers.

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