Server virtualization with VMware
Savola, Antti (2021)
Savola, Antti
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021082417113
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021082417113
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Today’s IT megatrends such as cloud computing, green IT and datacenters rely heavily and are based on virtualization technology. With the help of virtualization technology server’s utilization can be used to the maximum by running many virtual servers on one single physical server. This is done by the virtualization software also known as hypervisor. Hypervisor runs and controls the virtual machines resources from the host server in a separated virtual layer.
VMware Inc. began its journey in virtualization technology in 1998 in California and soon released its first product Workstation 1.0. With Workstation one could run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single PC. VMware continued to develop its virtualization products and in 2009 VMware released VMware vSphere virtualization platform which become one of the mostly used virtualization platforms today. Many technology advances, product developments and patents later VMware has become the market leader in virtualization technology today.
This thesis was done for a Finnish ISP company and one of its clients. The aim of this thesis was to migrate client’s virtual servers from client’s dedicated virtualization platform into ISP’s shared platform.
This thesis describes the basics of virtualization and server virtualization using VMware’s virtualization products.
In the practical side of this thesis virtual servers were migrated into a new virtualization platform. The practical side began by going through the current platform and planning the migration of the virtual servers.
The result of this study shows how the virtual servers were migrated from one platform to another using VMware’s virtualization products. The object of this thesis was successfully accomplished. The virtual servers were migrated into the new platform and all services are running as planned. In addition, the old ESXi hosts were wiped and were given to reuse.
VMware Inc. began its journey in virtualization technology in 1998 in California and soon released its first product Workstation 1.0. With Workstation one could run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single PC. VMware continued to develop its virtualization products and in 2009 VMware released VMware vSphere virtualization platform which become one of the mostly used virtualization platforms today. Many technology advances, product developments and patents later VMware has become the market leader in virtualization technology today.
This thesis was done for a Finnish ISP company and one of its clients. The aim of this thesis was to migrate client’s virtual servers from client’s dedicated virtualization platform into ISP’s shared platform.
This thesis describes the basics of virtualization and server virtualization using VMware’s virtualization products.
In the practical side of this thesis virtual servers were migrated into a new virtualization platform. The practical side began by going through the current platform and planning the migration of the virtual servers.
The result of this study shows how the virtual servers were migrated from one platform to another using VMware’s virtualization products. The object of this thesis was successfully accomplished. The virtual servers were migrated into the new platform and all services are running as planned. In addition, the old ESXi hosts were wiped and were given to reuse.