“By all reports–from tea leaves to star charts–server
virtualization on x86 architecture will become one of the most
disruptive technologies to storm the data center this year.“However, any user entertaining the idea of moving servers into
a virtual world are best served by avoiding the urge to get caught
up in the hype that will inevitably arrive throughout 2006.
Instead, analysts advise that a critical evaluation of resources
and an ironclad grip on understanding the behavior of the server
workloads and styles is necessary before they even utter the word
virtualization…”