CA just released a report that states “44 percent of respondents who said they had deployed server virtualization technology were unable to declare their deployment a success”

To quote the article:

According to the study—which surveyed 800 organizations around the world—44 percent of respondents who said they had deployed server virtualization technology were unable to declare their deployment a success. Inability to quantify ROI was a key factor in their reticence to definitively claim positive results.

The study also revealed that 71 percent of organizations that have moved ahead with virtualization have deployed, or plan to deploy, multiple server virtualization technologies—including operating system and hardware virtualization, operating system partitioning, para-virtualization, and/or clustering. In fact, 60 percent of organizations consider clustering a type of server virtualization, adding to the heterogeneity of virtualized environments.

I have to agree in part with Alessandro Perilli. The reason that this is such a high number is because too many companies underestimate virtualization projects. They also do not invest enough time learning about how virtualization changes your environment. There are some “best practices” that just don’t work right in a virutalized world.

I think as more and more companies virtualize, and virtualization best practices become more developed, this will change.

Thanks to http://www.virtualization.info/ for this article.  You can read the full CA report here.