I caught up with Erik Wrobel, who just happens to have that job. He took up the challenge.
You know what? There just might be a developing trend. VMware is seeing increasing client deployments with 1x1 installs. Wrobel's personal experience is anecdotal, but he spoke to growing customer interest in virtualization as a facilitation tool within the data center. A quick review of VMware's recent initiatives in management and automation products shows investment in leveraging VMs for capacity optimization, business continuity, and service management. Want to improve your time-to-build, automate new server requests, or standardize your base image regardless of hardware versions in your farm? How about simplifying site-to-site DR or rollbacks?
VMware is ready to help. And so are Citrix, Microsoft, Virtual Iron, and Parallels. The list of the willing continues with Novel, Sun, server vendors, and VM management startups; it's difficult to find an IT vendor site without at least one "virtualization" marketing pitch or product tie-in.
It seems like a fairly standard progression to me: VMs started on the test bench for environmental flexibility, then got a toehold in production thanks to consolidation and projected savings. Organization comfort levels went up, confidence in virt platforms increased, IT staff acquired nifty VM skills.
VM management tools and policies began to mature.
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