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Extend & Migrate Virtualization Farm
Enhance and extend the Capacity of the VMware Farm
to be capable of hosting more servers and migrate the
current virtual servers from standalone hardware to
VMware cluster with High availability feature to Ensure
that all administrative services are provided with high
level of quality, efficiency and transparency. UITS - An
Adaptable Organization
Virtualization at UAEU
UITS adopted the Virtualization technology in 2010 and
started virtualization with a minimal number of virtual
machines.
Currently, almost 85% of servers hosting the UAEU critical
business services are already virtualized. UITS has a 2
year strategic plan for Virtualization to reach 95%.
Virtualization defined
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Virtualization is nothing but creating a version
of something like virtual computer hardware
platforms, operating systems, storage devices,
and computer network resources from a physical
hardware.
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The term Virtualization came in to picture in the
late 1960s, as a method of logically dividing the
system resources provided by mainframe computers
between different applications. Since then the term
has really broadened.
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