VM /ETC

Sometimes the best laughs come from reality! Thanks for the numbers.

I’m the only VI Admin, which takes care of:3 Hosts100 VMs4 SANsEntire Org’s NetworkingAnd the Web Programming

Plus another half dozen or so physical servers.

rbrambley, VMsprawl is a huge problem with us…people come to us more frequently, because we no longer have a 2 week lead time (or longer), but rather minutes. The 2 of us that do the VI work spend probably 20% of our week on vmware admin duties alone…the rest of it is our other work (I am the storage admin, vmware admin, server admin, and the team lead (project planning and paperwork mostly). It's not as time consuming as I feared, but we've been overloaded from the beginning. It's far better than physical servers in any case, I replaced my virtual center yesterday, and it was an all day affair, because it was hardware. If it had been virtual it would have been at most a couple hours.

Sprawl is a huge problem and no one seems to be inclined to rein it in at all.

Cool shirt!
About 30 hosts and 400 vms with 3 admins. Doing everything from design to building vms. PowerCLI to the rescue!

It was 3 part time virtualization admin for 600-700 QA/Dev VMs and ~150 production VMs across two locations, 4 clusters, and 23 servers.

After filling a datacenter 3 years earlier than projected the company is going whole hog on virtualization. There are 4 dedicated Virtualization engineers for high level stuff while the existing windows and unix sysadmins will be doing most of the day to day work on systems, like cloning from templates. Anything the sysadmins did on a physical they'll do on a virtual. The plan is to P2V around 2000 existing servers this year and anything new is likely to be a virtual. We'll be busy, but up front we're spending a lot of time deciding which tools to use to manage the environment. Once that's done we should be less busy.