| Virtualisation virgin pitfalls for the bottom line |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Sunday, 27 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 The mid-range application environment was a simple beast,
requiring only significant up-time as a box to be ticked. There was no
Database to manage, no complex CPU crunching code to be concerned
about, and as such looked like the easiest of contenders to be moved to
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All up, for three servers, licensing of the ESX OS, maintenance and professional services the cost hovered around the AU$100,000 mark. Acceptable to management, given this was not part of the core business. But some assumptions had been made, turning up to install the Virtual Centre software on an existing server, the VMware consultant was stunned to turn up to a site without a SAN storage solution, dedicated mid-range database license, or Gigabit network between servers. According to the consultant, these were mandatory infrastructure requirements for a successful installation of ESX into a corporation. He failed to understand that this infrastructure might not be automatically part of a corporation’s set-up, and was upset to find out that none of this was mentioned as essential during the initial consultations, or for that matter part of the budget. The most disappointing aspect of this whole process was that the consultant was inflexible and unable to come up with a viable solution to the issue. So what was the bottom line issue? Please read on to page 4. |
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