| Dynamic Provisioning Services |
Improving IT agility
Dynamic provisioning services improves both manageability and business agility by virtualizing a datacenter server workload -- operating system, applications and configuration -- and streaming the workload on-demand to virtual or physical servers across the network.
Workload streaming
Dynamic provisioning services creates a virtual version, a vDisk, of a server or blade's workload by taking a snapshot of the workload image and storing the image as a file on the network. The vDisks contain the configurations required to support desired functions that a server might perform such as a web server, application server or XenApp server. When the server is powered up, instead of booting from a local disk, it will boot from the vDisk streaming the assigned workload to the virtual or physical server. The server starts running the assigned configuration immediately - no waiting to download the entire workload. The workload-streaming approach increases flexibility, giving businesses the ability to run one configuration, or vDisk, and with a reboot, point the physical or virtual server to a new vDisk and run a different configuration. Dynamic provisioning services support's the streaming of Microsoft and Linux-based operating systems.