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Introduction

Datacenters, especially those based upon industry standard systems and software, have been static environments, that is a server is configured to support a single operating system, data management system, application framework, and a number of applications. Systems then access both storage and the network using a pre-assigned configuration that can only be changed with a carefully planed set of manual procedures.

As the users of mainframes and single-vendor midrange systems discovered nearly three decades ago, this type of static thinking leads to a number of problems and must be replaced by the careful use of virtualization and automation. Although adopting dynamic, adaptive thinking is an important step, it's still important to remember that physcial machines, including systems, network and storage, must be running for all of this to work! This is a lesson the managers of industry standard system-based datacenters are just learning now.

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