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Written by:
Sean Wilson
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:14 PM
As a VMware Enterprise Partner we have been in a privileged position with respect to utilising their software in our business. We long ago decided that virtualisation was a key technology in enabling our business – the fact is that now we would find it very hard to manage without it! Since then however the number of products in the marketplace has grown – and yet despite the apparent high cost of the VMware offering it remains the market leader.
Why?
Well, this week we are attending a VMware training course leading to re-certification – a requirement for all VMware Enterprise Partners. What I found interesting is the change I have seen in the make-up of the class since the last time I took this training. Then – the class was small and undersubscribed and the businesses the attendees represented were large. Now – the class is packed and the attendees come from organisations of all sizes. We have a school technician solely responsible for running ESX on 2 hosts with 8 VMs, a member of a team responsible for running 2000 VMs and another whose networking requirements require 20 NICs in each one of their many hosts to cope with the bandwidth to an Oracle RAC installation. Some are using ESX to virtualise very large numbers of workstations and others for virtualising SQL database servers. Some on Fibre-channel SANs, others on iSCSI and others relying solely on the local storage on the hosts...
The variety of applications is tremendous and the VMware offering scales from the free edition of ESXi to vSphere Enterprise Plus to meet the requirements for very small organisations and the largest organisations. It is this flexibility and the attendant benefits that make VMware the market leading product it is today...
For more information:
To find out more about Virtualisation – click here.
To download ESXi for free – click here.
To buy VMware vSphere – click here.
Or, just post your query, I’ll be watching...
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