Virtualization 2.0 is all about agility – which means that IT can respond to business computing needs within hours not days or weeks. This is a good thing right? Well it depends on who you ask. David Cappuccio told me that to the business this is like magic where IT becomes a hero. For IT, this is can become a curse because if IT does not have solid tracking processes, they quickly loose control to virtual sprawl. Of course it is much harder to fix virtual sprawl problems than physical sprawl. Simply the good old way to disconnecting the server and see who screams can be not done in a virtual environment.
So we need to approach Virtualization 2.0 carefully to avoid coming around a full circle to where we are today only this time with bigger more complicated problems. After all ghost servers are bad and we are trying to fix that today, in the world of Virtualization 2.0 we may end up creating virtual ghosts.
This is what Cameron Haight likes to call, speed can kill! So be ware.
