Xen: Moving Beyond VMware [Part 1 & 2]

From Part 1:

"When did you start thinking about virtualizing your x86 systems?

"What we ran up against, and I imagine this happens often in IT departments, is we had gotten to a point where we just had lots of servers and our infrastructure was starting to age a little bit and it was time to do some refreshing. This was in mid or late 2005. Virtualization was the up-and-coming thing. It made a lot of sense to us because we wanted our infrastructure to be a little bit more agile, and then trim down on the number of raw boxes we had in our racks to make it a little more manageable..."

Complete Story (Part 1)

Complete Story (Part 2)

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