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  • <head> <style type="text/css"> .style1 { text-decoration: line-through; } </style> </head> Matt Groves
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    I am a big fan of virtualisation, the main reasons for me are:

    • Agility (ease of scale out, provisioning, server managment, deployment, etc)
    • DR/Failover
    • Lowers TCO

    IMO virtualisation is the default stance, give me a reason to not virtualise!

    Here are 20 things that everyone, OK maybe not everyone, but certainly every IT Pro, should know about virtualisation:

    http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=309

    http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=313

    Both are lightweight articles that will only take a few minutes to read through ;)

    Posted 11-11-2008 10:14 AM by Matt Groves

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    Tom Resing wrote re: 20 things you should know about Virtualisation
    on 11-21-2008 5:02 PM

    I'm learning towards your opinion on this one. There is overhead, but it is very low, especially with a tool like VMWare ESX. By the way, have you seen VMotion. Works awesomely at my current client's hands.

    -Tom

    Matt Groves wrote re: 20 things you should know about Virtualisation
    on 11-25-2008 4:47 AM

    VMotion, VMHA and VMDRS are all mature features that (IMO) help to establish VMWare as the market leader.

    MSFT are catching up (afterall, look at their track record, it's one of the [many] things they do well) but aren't there yet, and (like with EDRMS in MOSS, and many other areas) when they do get there the market will have proven leaders... Just my $0.02...

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