Are there other virtualisation management challenges that have not yet been met?
Kuzmack: How much time do you have? For one, no one’s quite gotten to cost accounting yet. There are two pieces to this. We don’t do internal chargebacks, but in general it’s important for us to understand [virtual machines] aren’t free. One of the downsides of virtualisation is a lot of folks say, ‘Oh, we’ll just spin up another [virtual machine]’. So having tools to identify how much a particular farm costs, including the servers and the disks and everything, and how it’s being utilised and at what percentages, would enable you to come up with a cost of ownership for a particular [virtual machine]. And another challenge is growth prediction, where if you’ve got a set number of [virtual machines], being able to look at how those are being utilised and, based on that, project how many additional [virtual machines] of similar characteristics you could put in a given environment before you’ll run out of resources. Those kinds of things are critical. Today a new application comes in, and
