Blade Watch

I was having a chat with an IT Manager working in the city, he’s been testing virtualization (using VMware) internally and is trying to put together some points for a presentation, a sales pack if you like for funding and for buy-in from the business to get the go ahead.  I had a chat with him and went over some of the concepts, and emailed him this presentation that I had put together some time ago.

The presentation goes over more the concepts about virtualization, some things to think about as well as how important the ownership and delivery of the platform is. Now I admit that many people will already have virtualization in their business, that they might be using it in production, they might have high availability and fail over, but for those that have not, for those who want to learn more or just have a think about it, here’s a non technical document for your review and I do hope it is of value.

I have removed any virtualization on blades or servers, that is not what the document is for, it is a brain storming exercise:

• The benefits
• The considerations
• The project issues
• The technical and non technical issues
• The things to think about in terms of delivery
• The key concept that you bolt virtualization to your business, not your business to virtualization – a simple concept but an important one.

Here is the PowerPoint version

Here is the PDF version

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