Comment Re:VMWare is owned by EMC (Score 1) 265
"Oh, and it requires a SAN back end"
You got that right. Not only does VMotion require a SAN backend, but 95% of the ESX implementations use all SAN storage on the back end. Using P2V, you take a physical server that was content on running on 36GB of local Disk and you move that onto your SAN infrastructure. I have had clients that have purchased up to 72TB just to support a Windows Server virtualization project. Not a bad move by EMC at all... I'm surprised they have let VMware ESX remain as vendor agnostic as they have...
Scott Herold
You got that right. Not only does VMotion require a SAN backend, but 95% of the ESX implementations use all SAN storage on the back end. Using P2V, you take a physical server that was content on running on 36GB of local Disk and you move that onto your SAN infrastructure. I have had clients that have purchased up to 72TB just to support a Windows Server virtualization project. Not a bad move by EMC at all... I'm surprised they have let VMware ESX remain as vendor agnostic as they have...
Scott Herold
