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Now that virtualization deployments are creeping out of test beds and extending more deeply into corporate data centers, a serious challenge has risen: How can organizations manage these increasingly complex environments?

In February, market researcher IDC reported that 56% of companies with complex virtualization implementations believe that close management of this technology will be critical for reaching their business goals. Approximately 80% of IDC’s survey respondents managing more than 50 virtual machines (VMs) said they apply, or plan to apply, Information Technology Infrastructure Library management practices. Another 70% use, or plan to use, software management tools, and the same percentage is looking toward automation as a critical component.

Management both in terms of the technology (making it all fit together, work together) and in terms of process, of reporting and ownership.  How you adopt this platform will depend on you and your business, there’s the one unified platform for business, the business aligned model ‘HR, sales and accounts’ component infrastructures, both represent challenges, and benefits. The right model for you is the one which gives you the benefit of the most consolidation per platform at the ‘lowest’ operational cost, unifying everything on one ESX farm might be brilliant, but not if you’re at risk of damaging the relationship, the buy-in from a business line or department, where you draw the line is the challenge.

I’m hoping we’ll see more in the development of managing and reporting tools as well as assistance with process from how to log a call, to best practices and steps around the ITIL kind of models.

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