[Info-vax] VMware

[Alexander Schreiber]

Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 12/9/2019 7:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/9/2019 5:33 PM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
>>> The big thing for the people I talk with is that VMS is different.
>>> The HW cost is certainly a big factor but even more important is that
>>> these people already run dozens, if not hundreds, of VMware guests.
>>
>> Or thousands.
>>
>> Or maybe even tens of thousands if they are big.
>>
>>> They want VMS to be in there, too, possibly in many guests. The
>>> message is always the same, don't be different if you want to stay
>>> around.
>>
>> Being different means extra cost.
>>
>> Arne
>>
>>
>
> I've mostly been a firm believer in the two rules of dealing with customers:
>
> 1) The customer is always right
> 2) When the customer is wrong, refer to rule #1
>
> So giving customers what they want is smart business.
>
> But, I have to ask, how do they run all those instances.  It seems to me 
> that it would be an operations nightmare.

With the "every server is a lovingly hand-maintained snowflake" approach
this would a total nightmare (and expensive in terms of people cost). Nobody
sane does this. Instead you are running a handful of system types with many
copies (e.g. web server, mail server, db server, app server type x, app
server type y, ..) and automate the living daylights out of turnup, turndown
and maintenance.

Kind regards,
            Alex.
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