To V or not to V, is it a question?

Virtualization (V from now on) has been around now for a bit and is here to stay. So the question is way are you not “Ving”?

I am not going to talk about any given product (today) because the idea is the talk about the concept.

V is great, it lets you accomplish several things, such has lower your Hardware investment, lower your Heat output, and therefore less A/C and finally less Electricity! You can also have some type of Disaster Recovery with V, you can set up a test environment quickly and as many times as your development team messes it up. And the best part is that all of this in one way or another can be done for “FREE” I say it with “” because depending on if you go down the Bill’s route you pay for the OS the Hypervisor runs on. The rest of the providers are Free in a limited set of features. To archive what I mention for “Free” you need a considerable amount of manual tasks, but again, it’s Free.

So again: To V or not to V, is it a question? (you should hear it in Klingon) I say NO! The web is full of step by step PDFs, blogs and videos on how to archive what you need, so if you have some deasent HW sitting around… go for it…. Play with Virtualisation. Once you go V, you will never go physical again!

Next week I will go over a few things with VMware in detail, and I can almost assure that for some VMware posts there will be a kind Hyper-V Pro that will post an equivalent!

George.