Comments on: Why is the concept of VMotion during the day is ok for the enterprise http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2008/11/why-is-the-concept-of-vmotion-during-the-day-is-ok-for-the-enterprise/ Virtualization is a layer in software. What are you abstracting away from? Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:20:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: View Yonder » vMotion and Change Management http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2008/11/why-is-the-concept-of-vmotion-during-the-day-is-ok-for-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 View Yonder » vMotion and Change Management Tue, 12 May 2009 06:34:18 +0000 http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/?p=31#comment-1256 [...] another link from itsjustanotherlayer.com about making changes like vMotion without change control and in [...] [...] another link from itsjustanotherlayer.com about making changes like vMotion without change control and in [...]

]]> By: Stu Fox http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2008/11/why-is-the-concept-of-vmotion-during-the-day-is-ok-for-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Stu Fox Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:02:19 +0000 http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/?p=31#comment-17 I think you might be drawing a long bow to be assuming that my comment is representative of the overall opinion of Microsoft. My comment was entirely personal, and not on behalf of my employer. I put a disclaimer in so that everything is out in the open. Congratulations on getting Vmotion approved for change during the day - I've worked with many clients who didn't bother with that and simply turned things like DRS on and somehow just ignored it in their change management process. And yes, many enterprises I've worked in do only make changes in defined change windows - including doing things like changing failed disks, removing servers from the data center etc. Don't get me wrong, live Migration is a great technology and I can't wait till we have it as well... You also didn't address the other half - you're working in an organisation that is mature enough to get Vmotion included in it's change control process but you can't automate a patch application? I'm pretty sure that you've probably got tools in there with that capability. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Cheers Stu (Won't bother repeating the disclaimer) I think you might be drawing a long bow to be assuming that my comment is representative of the overall opinion of Microsoft. My comment was entirely personal, and not on behalf of my employer. I put a disclaimer in so that everything is out in the open.

Congratulations on getting Vmotion approved for change during the day – I’ve worked with many clients who didn’t bother with that and simply turned things like DRS on and somehow just ignored it in their change management process.
And yes, many enterprises I’ve worked in do only make changes in defined change windows – including doing things like changing failed disks, removing servers from the data center etc. Don’t get me wrong, live Migration is a great technology and I can’t wait till we have it as well…

You also didn’t address the other half – you’re working in an organisation that is mature enough to get Vmotion included in it’s change control process but you can’t automate a patch application? I’m pretty sure that you’ve probably got tools in there with that capability.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Cheers

Stu
(Won’t bother repeating the disclaimer)

]]> By: ErvinTW http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2008/11/why-is-the-concept-of-vmotion-during-the-day-is-ok-for-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-13 ErvinTW Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:10:22 +0000 http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/?p=31#comment-13 Thanks! Nice post. Thanks! Nice post.

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