Virtualization Is Not All Roses

An anonymous reader writes "Vendors and magazines are all over virtualization like a rash, like it is the Saviour for IT-kind. Not always, writes analyst Andi Mann in Computerworld." I've found that when it works, it's really cool, but it does add a layer of complexity that wasn't there before. Then again, having a disk image be a 'machine' is amazingly useful sometimes.

Re:Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

re your sig:

An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.

Did you know that in the US, light switches are traditionally installed with "up" being "on", while in England they are traditionally installed with "down" being "on"?

Perhaps instead operating systems should be like nipples, everyone is born knowing how to use them, and they don't operate differently in different countries ;)

Re:why are we reading this garbage?

[ndansmith]

how about an article that makes some recommendations on how to mitigate the problems they identify with virtualization, or point out some non obvious issues?

Have it on my desk Monday morning.

Virtualization Is Not All Roses?

[wiredog]

Is some of it crocuses? Or at least daffodils?

Please tell me it's not daisies.

Re:Yawn

[OldeTimeGeek]

Has to work better than what I've tried. Besides, if I say I read it on Slashdot, they gotta submit to my advanced research skillz...

Re:Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

If the only way you're looking at metrics on a system is running 'uptime' to get the load average...

Well, friend, your IT department has a lot more issues than just problems with VMWare.

Re:Yawn

[rhaas]

If you're blind, then why do you care about the light switch in the first place?

Re:Yawn

[suggsjc]

Wait, I thought this conversation was about nipples...

Re:Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

Three.

Re:Yawn

[smittyoneeach]

Steven Wright:

I had a switch on the wall that didn't do anything. So every now and then, I'd flip it up and down.
Then I got a letter from a woman in Germany, telling me: "Cut it out".