Server Virtualization and MySQL: Your Options

Virtualization technology has now gone main stream, and its footprint within IT infrastructures continues to accelerate. If one is responsible for MySQL within the enterprise one needs a firm understanding of these technologies and offerings and how they work when combined with MySQL deployments. This paper will explain virtualization technologies and how they work with MySQL to help optimize the infrastructure investment while at the same time increasing the performance and availability of the business-critical applications.