Before you implement a virtualized environment, you have to plan. A lot. Not only must you map out what you need to and can virtualize, but you must also step back and take virtualization as part of an enterprise-wide strategy. “It’s a commonly held belief that, because you’re virtualizing, all your problems go away,” John Humphreys, vice president of virtualization research for IDC, told TechNewsWorld. “But you still have software change management issues — you still have one thousand operating systems you have to patch, whether they’re on hardware or virtual machines.”
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The Virtualization Challenge, Part 4: Implementing the Environment
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 12, 2008 04:00 AMBefore you implement a virtualized environment, you have to plan. A lot. Not only must you map out what you need to and can virtualize, but you must also step back and take virtualization as part of an enterprise-wide strategy. “It’s a commonly held belief that, because you’re virtualizing, all your problems go away,” John Humphreys, vice president of virtualization research for IDC, told TechNewsWorld. “But you still have software change management issues — you still have one thousand operating systems you have to patch, whether they’re on hardware or virtual machines.”