In many IT shops, application, technology or system specific tools are used extensively. This tends to work quite well as long as a technology is in its infancy - or even adolescence - but becomes a burden on the IT Operations staff when its usage becomes widespread. By that time, you will need to consolidate management of "silo'ed" systems, for better event correlation and root cause analysis, as well as to reduce the need for many separate specialized groups.
According to Network World's Denise Dubie, the time for integrating virtual system management into the rest of IT Management is now:
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2010/051710nsm2.html
From a European perspective, this is long overdue. In the Nordic countries, where Manag-E is located, Virtualization moved into the Data Centers several years ago, and is today deeply entrenched there. Consolidating Virtualization Management into overall system management is something we've been eagerly awaiting for quite some time!
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Great technology post, thanks. I found that av design was easier than I thought!
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