Are there other financial concerns that IT managers grapple with when virtualizing?
Hayes: Companies way overestimate the costs of implementing a virtualized environment. It’s not that hard. And, some struggle with how to come up with the funding to bring in all this new beneficial technology. They can’t get their head around the fact that it pays for itself in a real short timeframe out of money they are already spending. What are the ROI results you’ve seen when companies virtualized on blades rather than racks? Hayes: Under certain conditions, blades can be less expensive than the equivalent rack solution, and hence there is a higher ROI. Generally this would be for a situation where you’re dealing with more than 10 servers in a single location and the client’s workloads are memory bound (not disk or CPU). Luckily, about 50% of the Windows Server consolidations we’ve performed fit this situation quite nicely. I’m presenting an example during my session showing a 40% difference between implementing a blade solution vs. rack solution. What are some methodologies for
