VMWare ESXi

[Mike_182]

See dk what you're missing is the company's desire to do everything for nothing. Being an SP you'll only ever be approached when someone has a cheque. Being a technical consultant within the business I'm permanently required to bo everything for nothing.

And virtualisation isn't about the 'single pane of glass' approach, it's about using the wasted resources of a server. Your average 'heavy usage' server runs between 10 and 25% of capacity, and lower usage servers much less. Virtualisation is about eliminating that, reducing the footprint of your infrastructure as you have less servers, reducing maintenance costs as you have less servers to maintain, and reducing running costs as you have less servers to power and cool down.

And the sad thing is we're a medium business with 8 branches and 1500 users... I've argued time and time again that we (don't need support, per incident is fine!) need to get VCB as an absolute minimum for the server running our live system. However, the live system is to be used by no more than 10 people concurrently, they didn't spend the money for a high availability solution and they don't intend to spend any money.

The system was virtualised under recommendation by me as it ran on a single HP DL360. As that's what we are running our virtual environment on, they've not lost anything.

 

[dk]

guess we will have to agree to disagree then.

I also mentioned all the points you do about virtualisation, single pane of glass is just one of them.

p.s. whats an SP? if you mean sales person, then i'm far from it, i'm a technical consultant and implementation engineer, i sell the solution to the customer but i'm not a sales person, i do not get involved in cost one little bit, a company comes to me with a problem and i solve it using a solution, that normally costs money, but so does down time, management and power and cooling these days so if sold the idea correctly with downtime costs and ROI then its never normally a problem. What I do is normally something a company needs to do rather than can do without and as it saves them money over the long term they seem happy to invest.

I guess you need to get that point across to the right people, unfortunately, in some cases (like your instance it sounds) the right people just aren't interested and thats a great shame as theres a lot of great technology out there to help companies save great deals money in the long run.

 

[Mike_182]

SP=Solution Provider... And yes, the people I design the solution for are more than happy to spend the money. Unfortunately, the only way the company has made any money this year is through selling parts of the business, so they aren't too keen to lay anything out for a long term return...