We pushed the vendors to provide evidence of why they couldn't support a virtualized environment. Most of the time, the vendors didn't have the experience with virtualization. That gave us an opportunity to prove the technology for them. After migrating more than 800 servers to the VMware farm, we've had only one issue that forced us to reverse the decision to virtualize the application.
Finally, don't under- or overestimate the consolidation ratios that can be achieved. Conduct careful observation of application performance during testing and deployment, and build flexibility into the deployment and migration plan to accommodate variances.
George Conklin is CIO, Mitch Lawrence is lead application analyst, and Mark Middleton is system director of IT architecture for Christus Health.
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