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The biggest hurdle I’ve encountered deploying virtualization environments is the holdover ideas of cpu and memory standards from the physical world; where the standard practice is to overallocate memory and cpu. It’s always been a struggle to convince departments that they do not need to create 4 vcpu/8GM mem virtual machines. Each time I’ve deployed virtual environments, this is always the most debated topic. This becomes the “prove it” test.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:06 amVendor support has been the largest hurdle when deploying virtualised environments, the oldage “its not supported so i wont virtualise it” always comes up when you are running a massive virtualisation project.
The adoption and release of supporting high availability into the virtual products available has in the ISV’s view made this more possible….even though it never made any difference in the first place
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June 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pmHi
Most problems I run into when virtualizing:
- Politics: My ESX design, needed only 3 clusters. Because of politics we now have 40 hosts and 8 clusters for just 400 vms
- support from 3rd party. It talks a lot of meetings before people are allowing me to P2V their systems when the 3rd party doesn’t support virtualisation.
- Cold feet. People have such fears for virtualizing their systems. I’ve seen the strangest reasons they think virtualization is impossible.
Gabrie
June 9th, 2008 at 5:10 amMost problems I run into when virtualizing:
June 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pmStorage migration. When they use SAN storage, when the SAN Array end of lease comes up there is diffculty migrating their storage.