This Q&A videocast provides the best practices and experience of HP's field organization with clients who have moved their virtualized infrastructures pilot projects to more serious, production infrastructures. The webcast deals with storage, server, network, planning and staffing issues which successful IT groups deal in serious virtualization infrastructures. The questions cover issues of:

• What are the common mistakes IT groups make as they get to that "production virtualization?"
• What checklist should IT groups use before pursuing more serious production virtualization infrastructures?
• What are the most important determinants of virtualization performance?

Other videocasts in this Q&A series:

What is the simplest way to get started with Virtualization
This Q&A videocast discusses the major issues that have stalled virtualization projects or caused them to fail outright and what new technologies and process approaches make success more likely. The videocast highlights a technology approach from HP and Citrix for server installation, configuration and management environment intended for small to mid-sized businesses.

How to improve performance, security and manageability of VMware
This Q&A videocast discusses the issues which advanced users of VMware experience, including management, performance and security. It also reviews the new integrated version of ESX, ESXi, for existing VMware customers as well as those trying virtualization for the first time.