Vmware common myths
I think this is a post that i will keep updating as i think of things, but i thought i would start out with nice easy ones to get going with.
Something that quite often happens with a new esx farm is the admins want to tentively vm a ‘low risk’ server thinking that its not the end of the world if it goes skyward.
This normally translates as a server that does not do much and has been sat in the corner of the server room for years banging away doing its thing. Now of course when its virtualized its given a whole new set of hardware that is years away from what its used too. This gets admins and users very excited as whatever that server used to do is now been given a massive boost in performance.
Virtualization is not about speed its about consolidation. As admins start virtualizing other boxes the old server may very well go back to about the speed it was before.
More to follow
