Journey of Virtualization: Software Defined Datacenter
Recently I was asked by some customers who have not yet start virtualization. They asked which technology should they choose? Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM, Citrix Zen or even Redhat KVM. I would like to take this as a neutral perspective here. Here I do not want to be bias against any technology but rather be open about it and to start at the base and looking towards the goals. What is your reason that you are going to start virtualization? Many wanted to do because they see people doing it and they believe it is cost saving. Have you assess if this is really cost saving for yourself? For one reason, if you are paying hosting of your server workload, would you really bother about if it is virtual or physical for the SLA you have paid for? Once you have determine your reason on virtualization, next we talk about what do you want to achieve out of virtualization? Many talk about TCO, ROI and really the cost savings. Honestly all ...