On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:37 AM, John C. Welch wrote:
You have a room full of Xserves you can only run a single task on
at 50%
utilization?
Hit the nail on the head!
This is the real reason why virtualization makes sense.
Initially (that is in the dim ages when hw was expensive) you needed
VM b/c the hw was idle and big.
Today the hw is plentiful and inexpensive. That's led to too much hw
and too mnay machines and a need to consolidate to reasonable
numbers. Thats were VM now makes sense.
But if you're looking to have extra instances just for "play", buy a
play box. Your production staff /will/ thank you.
