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Hybrid IT For Dummies, HPE Special Edition 14 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. The infrastructure on which these workloads operate needs to reflect this uniqueness. Let's take a quick walk through a couple of key points. There are all kinds of generic, one‐size‐fits‐all data center options out there intended to meet the needs of everyone. But in reality, they often have some major drawbacks, including being improperly sized to meet the needs of the company. You may wonder how one size fits all can lead to improper sizing. Well, the answer emerges when you take off the lid and peer inside. Some data center resources are exhausted before others. For example, you may run out of storage capacity long before you run out of computing power. You need to tailor the resource allocation to meet the needs of your specific work- load mix. Just as important, you need to make sure that this allocation supports those workloads with whatever unique- ness they may have. In an ideal world, you'd be able to deploy and maintain resources in the way that makes the most sense for your workloads and the individual way that you're using those workloads. Here's the short version: One‐size‐fits‐all infrastructure may be good for one‐size‐fits‐all applications, but it breaks down as soon as customizations and unique needs hit the scene. Maintaining Performance Prerequisites One of the challenges in maintaining a robust data center environment is maintaining necessary performance prereq- uisites while everything changes around you. You're con- stantly adding and removing applications, expanding storage, and responding to new business needs. Every time you add something new to the environment, there is potential that the whole thing just slows down. Beyond just maintaining performance requirements necessary to operate workloads, users have become accustomed to