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VMware keeps telling customers to go ahead and virtualize their tier-one applications such as databases, Exchange email and the like. True-blue VMware architects have gotten the message loud and clear, though sometimes these hopes fall on the deaf ears of bosses and colleagues.

“I designed a complete VMware virtual Oracle environment here and was vetoed and told to put it on physical!” said an IT administrator who requested anonymity. “My own director threw me under the bus,” he added.

In some cases, the issue boils down to software support. (Oracle, in particular, has a draconian no third-party hypervisor policy.) But just as often, application owners are the obstacle, fearing that a virtualized environment will not deliver the performance and availability their applications need.

The issue is one back from the olden days, of sign-off, we can virtualize anything, we can either abstract the hardware, have one virtual machine to one physical server, or many virtual machines to one server, the problem is, for production, for ‘club class’ platforms, we need the vendor, the service provider and the internal IT teams to sign-off and say that it’s “A: supported and B production class”, getting that verbally is fine, but getting people to say yes I’ll support it, that it is of a configuration that we are happy to support to a tier 1 99.999% level is another thing.

With this in mind, we need to stay on message, virtualize what we can for business and service transformation, whilst maintaining those physical platforms in the most energy efficient and industrial strength configurations, in an easy to manage footprint.

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