but I assume that you all like virtualization. You kind of hamstring virtualization by stopping short of a cloud architecture. The "islands" (silos?) of compute power just move from single servers to virtualized - but still single servers.
As I have wrote in the past, I see no advantage at all with carving up a single server into VMs. There IS a performance penalty (ever have to move a server OFF of a VM because the performance wasn't there? I see it all the time now). What was the point of creating W2k8 with all of its solid multitasking - when you want to run a single app on it? I've said this before - why not run DOS on the VMs, since you are only running 1 app at a time (said fallaciously). Either go with the cloud - or throw away virtualization.
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