Virtualization complexity
Monday, February 1st, 2010
I attended a seminar where Microsoft’s latest tools for managing Hyper-V were demonstrated. Virtualisation is creating an increase in the complexity of the Server environment. Businesses will need increasingly skilled personnel to manage the environment. They will need good software tools to be able to perform effective management of the environment.
The other thought which struck me is the need for operations management to have good tools to measure/track the operational cost (and cost recovery) of running applications in a multi-server data centre. It takes considerable capital expenditure to set up a full loaded Microsoft/VMWare environment. The servers have to be powerful as does the storage environment. Recovery of the capital cost during the financial depreciation period will be an additional loading on the operational costs. Fortunately such software tools do exist to help track the costs and to bill the user business. More on this later.
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