Comments on: Virtualization is more than just consolidation

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:43:00 +0000

I get the feeling that generally server consolidation is about moving legacy apps that a company has acquired in the past into a more manageable environment. Chances of boxes running inventory and HR applications, ever having a slashdot moment is pretty slim. I’m surprised that server consolidation is used to reduce the size of a web farm, where as you correctly state, the unused capacity is there just in case.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:32:03 +0000

Great post Ben. I just had a great discussion with a developer recently about designing a particular application for portability in the context of scalability just a few days ago. I really like your RAID analogy and will likely need to borrow that one.

By: Makea

Makea — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:44:45 +0000

Any chance of detailing your thumper iSCSI zone workflow in your slides?

By: Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:02:47 +0000

Thanks for the write up, never really thought about it. Nevertheless, blueshifting is the future because this is how life works. Bigger and better instead of what’s really necessary. Think of it, we’d be all farming and fishing.