1. Server Virtualization Panel Nicholas Hay (nhay@JEFFERSON.K12.MI.US) Kyle Papworth (PapworthK@freeland.k12.mi.us) Lyle Severance (lseverance@casscity.k12.mi.us) Scott Sherrill (scott@remc1.org) http://sl.remc1.org/srvrvirt

2. Describe your current server virtualization environment.

3. What would be a ballpark cost estimate of your environment for the software?

4. What other virtualization software did you try before using your current one?

5. Any other factors that made you choose your software?

6. Do you find your virtualization software needs a specific hardware resource more than any other?

7. Any guest OSes not supported? Any that do not work well?

8. How hard is it to patch your virtualization software? What happens with guest oses during the process?

9. Who do you turn to for help? Is there a large community support structure available?

10. How are you monitoring the server and guest hosts?

11. Are there premade guest appliances available?

12. Can you template [quickly replicate] guest oses?

13. Does your virtualization software do thin provisioning of disk space or thick?

14. Does your virtualization software support any of the following: high availability? motioning of running machine? snapshotting of guest os?

15. Describe your best success story

16. Share your worst horror story

17. Audience Questions

18. Nicholas Hay nhay@JEFFERSON.K12.MI.US

19. Kyle Papworth PapworthK@freeland.k12.mi.us

20. Lyle Severance lseverance@casscity.k12.mi.us