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February 04, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Virtualization: The Management Take

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I'm now in one of the breakout sessions at InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum (I had an abbreviated form of the event name in my earlier post), where five executives are talking about deployment of blade servers and other virtualization hardware and software. There have been a couple of interesting take-aways so far:

First, the answer "it depends" is everywhere when you talk about virtualization. It's great to hear this when so many people get very religious about their choice of hardware or (especially) software for putting together and virtualized environment. Things are changing so rapidly that looking honestly at your requirements, then being open about which solutions you'll consider, will almost certainly give you a better solution than decided first that you'll use a particular platform then trying to mold your analysis to fit.

Next, the management issues are huge. I'm not talking about virtual machine hypervisors, but human managers who can't change their thinking to meet the new realities of a virtualized infrastructure. When you're considering virtualized deployment, you should absolutely build time to evangelize management into your planning process -- it will pay huge dividends as you roll out the production systems.

More from the Forum after lunch...

Posted by Curt Franklin on February 4, 2008 12:05 PM

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