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VM Sprawl?: Page 3 of 3

All major virtualization host platforms have some level of bundled management tools. XenCenter offers a bunch of management options for free... VMware Infrastructure 3's Virtual Center starts to sound like a good idea in hindsight. A $6K license and a SQL build later and that "VMotion + storage VMotion" module is looking pretty good, too.

Are bundled tools good enough? Should you start spending some serious bank on ESX plug-ins or 3rd party management tools? As with most questions in IT, the correct answer, as always, is 'it depends...'

What do you think? Any good stories from the real world out there?