Virtualization, which allows multiple operating systems and applications to share the resources of a physical machine, is probably a word that you have heard. Many IT departments are adopting virtualization as part of a broader strategy to conserve resources and reduce costs. In fact, maybe you’re already running ArcGIS Server on a virtualized environment.
We’ve recently released a brief white paper with a high level overview of what virtualization is, and why you may want to use it with ArcGIS Server. The paper addresses:
- Benefits of virtualization
- Available virtualization technologies
- How ArcGIS Server supports virtualized environments
- How ArcGIS Server performance is affected when running on a virtual machine
- Major design factors for considering virtualization
- Advantages of deploying ArcGIS Server in a virtualized environment
ArcGIS Server and Virtualization white paper (PDF)
Contributed by Ismael Chivite, ArcGIS Server Product Manager
ESRI has also published this paper through VMware that contains some more deployment considerations and performance test results: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/ESRI-DeploymentGuide-v1.0.pdf