Comments on: Warning! Virtualization Is Addictive To Management

By: Dugie’s Pensieve » Blog Archive » Speedlinking #711 - VM maximums, Community, P2V and Powershell

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:08:31 +0000

[...] Warning! Virtualization Is Addictive To Management - Article from ToutVirtual, made me smile. Been there and my head is still spinning. [...]

By: richpo

richpo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:52:18 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. Funny thing is I wanted to start this in 2005. Of course no one agreed me then. 2006 came and went and I finally got a production environment up and running in the beginning of 2007. Now everybody want’s everything to be Virtual which is cool but Hey there’s only one of me I do still like to sleep from time to time.

By: Schorschi

Schorschi — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:07:43 +0000

What you say about “It does have to be thought out but the rewards are well worth it” Quite true, the question is how many organizations do just that before they start down the virtualization path, or realize it in the middle of their efforts? Those organizations I have dealt with, tend to have done the former, which I am sure, has kept my blood pressure down in the process.

By: Britton

Britton — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:15:04 +0000

I am the CTO for my state agency. My goal is to virtualize everything. Has been from the beginning. For me the overriding factor has been platform independence for business continuity and disaster recovery as well as being able to silo services and apps to reduce complexity(for applications management) and increase our responsiveness to business needs. With one database server to go before my entire infrastructure (minus the dedicated backup server) is virtual. The effort has been an outstanding success and has saved tens of thousands of dollars while reducing time to production on some projects to hours instead of months).
It does have to be thought out but the rewards are well worth it. Lowering TCO was just a perk.