Like most promising new technologies, virtualization has its dark side. Production environments are far more complex – and herein lies the challenge for IT organizations traveling down the virtualization road. The typical IT infrastructure for a production environment involves a staggering amount of relationships and dependencies among IT elements that often extend across distributed networks.

This paper examines some of the strategies required for successful virtualized service management, followed by a description of how HP Software can help you quickly realize the benefits of virtualization in real-time production environments.