[AusNOG] Back of envelope II

[David Hughes]

On 06/03/2009, at 8:05 PM, Shane Short wrote:

> If someone other than corp. IT people can convince me its the way to
> go, I'll listen. :)

Aggregating large amounts of diverse workloads of almost any nature  
onto "shared compute infrastructure" does work.  A large VMware farm  
isn't just "running multiple servers on one physical bit of kit".   
It's a shared, flexible pool of resources that can be allocated almost  
at whim to whoever needs it, or is paying for it, at any point in time.

And naturally I'm not speaking from an "internal IT" perspective.   
It's pretty public info that WebCentral / MelbourneIT has moved  
heavily into virtualising suitable workloads.  I'm only tangentially  
involved with that part of the infrastructure, but it works, and it  
works very well.


David
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