Two weeks ago I attended a seminar on the use of VMWare technology to consolidate servers. The basic premise is that you pay big $$$ for a box of hardware that sits there and uses 5%-10% of the resources, which is very low Return On Investment (ROI). The doctrine of virtualization is take that one physical box and divide it up into multiple virtual boxes, each running it's own independent OS, and use more of the physical box resources and achieve better ROI. After the conference, a lot of research, performance monitoring of our servers, I presented the business case to my manager. He was very taken with the idea and gave me approval to purchase the VMWare GSX Server product. I'm in the initial stages now of taking a live physical server and converting it to a virtual server.
Friday, October 14, 2005
VMWare GSX Server
Two weeks ago I attended a seminar on the use of VMWare technology to consolidate servers. The basic premise is that you pay big $$$ for a box of hardware that sits there and uses 5%-10% of the resources, which is very low Return On Investment (ROI). The doctrine of virtualization is take that one physical box and divide it up into multiple virtual boxes, each running it's own independent OS, and use more of the physical box resources and achieve better ROI. After the conference, a lot of research, performance monitoring of our servers, I presented the business case to my manager. He was very taken with the idea and gave me approval to purchase the VMWare GSX Server product. I'm in the initial stages now of taking a live physical server and converting it to a virtual server.
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I attended a similiar seminar in Southfield a few weeks back, although GSX sounds sweet I've been looking into implementing ESX server only because of the Linux stability. I wanted to know if youve talked with anyone thats had to implement this, I'm sure theres more hurdles to tackle but thats the fun part :-)
I've not talked to anyone directly, however the Rob Bastiaansen has a few books out that talk about doing this. I'm not positive of the cost, but I just think, from what I've read and seen, that GSX would be overkill for what we need or would use. That being said, I think that VMWare is going to concentrate more on the Workstation and ESX market then the GSX market, but that's just my take.
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