http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-102 Shenning Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:30:09 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-102 I share your optimism on the power and possibilities of virtualization technology, however, while virtualization certainly can do great things for data centers especially in terms of cost savings, it can also make potential problems more difficult to uncover and resolve, due to the complexity that this technology adds to an already complex data center. In the non-virtualized world, IT Operations is already up against the wall with respect to systems management, yet virtualized environments considerably complicate the problem. Now you are dealing with the host server and O/S, the hypervisor, the virtual machines, the guest O/S in each virtual machine and the applications running in the VMs. Ouch... Figuring out the source of problems was hard enough in the non-virtualized world. Simply throwing more people at the problem as Operations has done in the past is not going to scale with this level of complexity, and IT budgets, which are already 70+% labor and flat won't support that anyway. That is why IT executives implementing virtualized production environments need to seriously consider a new breed of systems management solutions that use real time analytics to reduce manual efforts in the problem resolution process and enhance static threshold based monitoring and alerting. These solutions can finally allow IT to get out of reactive firefighting and become truly proactive. I share your optimism on the power and possibilities of virtualization technology, however, while virtualization certainly can do great things for data centers especially in terms of cost savings, it can also make potential problems more difficult to uncover and resolve, due to the complexity that this technology adds to an already complex data center. In the non-virtualized world, IT Operations is already up against the wall with respect to systems management, yet virtualized environments considerably complicate the problem. Now you are dealing with the host server and O/S, the hypervisor, the virtual machines, the guest O/S in each virtual machine and the applications running in the VMs. Ouch… Figuring out the source of problems was hard enough in the non-virtualized world. Simply throwing more people at the problem as Operations has done in the past is not going to scale with this level of complexity, and IT budgets, which are already 70+% labor and flat won’t support that anyway. That is why IT executives implementing virtualized production environments need to seriously consider a new breed of systems management solutions that use real time analytics to reduce manual efforts in the problem resolution process and enhance static threshold based monitoring and alerting. These solutions can finally allow IT to get out of reactive firefighting and become truly proactive.

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