In the corporate world, PCs themselves are nearly obsolete with virtual machines/desktops. The concept of a physical server dedicated to a single purpose is past obsolete. Funny how in many places, Virtualization began in the data center, and eventually worked it’s way to the client end.
Where I work, I have managed to shrink around 75 physical servers down to 4 ESX hosts(3+1 failover), attached to a EMC SAN. We still have around 30 physical servers left that couldn’t be VM’d due to primarily hardware constraints, but I hope to get them converted sometime next year. My goal is to have our entire data center down to those 4 rack spaces+SAN. How cool is that? lol (would have been unthinkable to us just 5 years ago)
The last server I’ll convert will be my Linux email firewall. I built that thing from scratch, and it’s close to 1,000 days of uptime(would be much much more, but for my stupidity). I’m sure I can convert it to a VM, but I can’t bring myself to do it, because I would have to briefly take it down for the ‘P2V’ conversion.
> I’m sure I can convert it to a VM, but I can’t bring myself to do it, because I would have to briefly take it down for the ‘P2V’ conversion.
Maybe in the future ESX will be able to migrate a running physical machine to a running virtual machine.
My manager didn't like it cause he was under heavy pressure to move them to MVS...
Ugh...it really got ugly!