Virtualization is all about the planning

October 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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The majority of attendees at the Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago last week reported that they are either deploying virtual machines or are interested in learning more about the process.

The first step in migrating from physical machines to virtual servers is developing a solid plan, said Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Midvale, Utah-based research firm Burton Group. Wolf hosted the conference session “Processes for choosing virtualization candidates in large-scale deployments.”

“People who have done virtualization will tell you: Planning is 90% of the process. The other 10% is the actual migration, which is easy,” Wolf said.

Absolutely, it’s not just technical, it’s organizational, issues in terms of ownership and billing, SLA’s all the usual bits that you’d have with deploying a new technology, but with the added element of the who buys the ESX infrastructure - keeping in mind that these kind of things not being in place can easily be a show stopper to the ’success’ or ‘perceived success’ of your project. “It’s fine, but I can buy a DL380 for the same cost as a virtual machine…”

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