Hi, I'm John Suit, CTO and principal founder of Fortisphere, which is a member of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program.
In this tough economy, the cost savings of virtualization are driving faster adoption - and the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V is exposing more companies, large and small, to the benefits of this deceptively simple technology.
In fact, from what we've seen, the scale of deployments has grown tremendously in the past year. When we did market research a year ago, people were calling their 90-VM environments "large." Today, similar-sized deployments are "really, not very big." Today, 300-400 VMs are commonplace, with a mix of Microsoft Hyper-V and others platforms running together.
So, the deployment of VMs has become nearly routine. But, with scale, another problem has emerged: management of the environments. Today, we mostly see folks provisioning VMs and mostly ignoring them until someone calls with a problem, at which point they scramble to prove that the virtual infrastructure is not to blame. Inventories of VM are either kept in Excel files or outsourced to teams of inventory-keepers. Change alerting, reclamation of idle VMs, and a whole bunch of other functions are untouched, as most folks are too busy with provisioning and troubleshooting.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files
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