Hypervisor Sprawl
I think that’s a fitting description of what’s been happening in recent months. The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, the shift away from the most common hypervisor to other solutions like Hyper-V (though I don’t hear much about this), Nutanix, Proxmox, Oracle, sangfor…
For end customers, managing this is relatively straightforward: they choose a path and stick to it.
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But for consulting firms, it poses quite a challenge. Once upon a time, anyone with a couple of NUCs could set up a lab to try out ESXi, Veeam, or others, now how many labs are needed? How much hardware, how many licenses… certainly too much for the individual professional’s private investment.
And for companies, which path to take? All of them? Abandon customers going in different directions? Invest in training across the board, pour resources into significant labs, hope to have enough staff to cover everything?
Or assume that a single employee can adeptly handle all virtualization systems? Perhaps one who previously only dabbled in vSphere and caused enough trouble as it was?
