Comment Re:Completely trash article... here's why... (Score 1) 214
Thank you... your point about uptime is spot on, exactly what I came here to say.
The biggest BENEFIT of virtualization is increased uptime! If you have one server running one application and that server goes down, you're done... with virtual machines if one physical server goes down, the VM's just move to another physical server and off you go!
And the argument about network bandwidth doesn't make any sense either. If you have x gbps of network activity going through your network without virtualization, you're going to have the same amount after, it's just consolidated. So instead of having say 4 servers using 1gbps each, you have one server using 4gbps (theoretically). Which do you think is cheaper? Yeah...
"The entire environment becomes as critical as the most critical application running on it,"
The biggest BENEFIT of virtualization is increased uptime! If you have one server running one application and that server goes down, you're done... with virtual machines if one physical server goes down, the VM's just move to another physical server and off you go!
And the argument about network bandwidth doesn't make any sense either. If you have x gbps of network activity going through your network without virtualization, you're going to have the same amount after, it's just consolidated. So instead of having say 4 servers using 1gbps each, you have one server using 4gbps (theoretically). Which do you think is cheaper? Yeah...
