Virtualization Is Not All Roses

An anonymous reader writes "Vendors and magazines are all over virtualization like a rash, like it is the Saviour for IT-kind. Not always, writes analyst Andi Mann in Computerworld." I've found that when it works, it's really cool, but it does add a layer of complexity that wasn't there before. Then again, having a disk image be a 'machine' is amazingly useful sometimes.

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Also depends on the kind of virtualization

[sconeu]

What kind of virtualization do you need?

Are we talking server virtualization? Are we talking storage virtualization?

There are many kinds of virtualizations.

I admit, I didn't RTFA, but based on the comments I'm assuming server virtualization.

Storage virtualization, done right, can be done with minimal overhead inside your SAN fabric.