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74 ✓ Verify your backups on a regular basis. Testing your VM backups can be much simpler than testing backups in physical environments (so there's no excuse for not testing!). ✓ Perform regular security reviews to ensure that man- agement traffic is protected, that permissions are in line with compliance requirements and best practices, and that you have performed hardening tasks as required by your organization. ✓ Model the impact of adding additional workloads to your environment using vCenter™ Operations™ capacity planning tools. This will help you to determine your risk of running out of physical resources or proac- tively identify the right amount of physical resources to add to your environment for planned expansions. ✓ Run efficiency reports in vCenter™ Operations™ to identify opportunities to reclaim waste. An efficient data center has less risk. Less risk means better health and performance. Spread the Word If it's true, it's not bragging, right? Don't be afraid to tell your organization about your successes and the value IT is delivering. By leveraging the management capabilities of Virtualization 2.0 within your virtualized infrastructure, you are now able to deliver higher quality of service, with less risk, at a much lower cost. IT is providing a valuable, profit- generating service for the organization. Let others know what you're doing and the impact IT is having. You never know, some of the efficiency gains in the data center might inspire improvements in other areas of your organization as well.