Virtual Environment
Although the Libraries have made strides toward moving into a virtualized environment in the
past few years, we had many constraints on our ability to keep up with developments. The
Libraries’ virtual environment was two versions behind UAlbany’s virtual environment, and the
storage needs of the Libraries’ virtual environment were at capacity. Part of the incentive to
moving into the new data center was the ability to downsize some of our physical equipment and
migrate some of our physical servers to virtual equivalents