Quick Survey on Virtualisation for University Project

[Kamran7860]

Hi

 

I am a third year university student, doing a project on "The use of virtualisation to consolidate and migrate servers". I would really appreciate it if you could spare some time do a quick survey. shown below is link to the survey.

 

Click Here

 

or use the following link:

 

http://www.surveypirate.com/Survey.aspx?surveyid=10211&hash=IoK0tbdtv3QjnqE7cwRPfw%3d%3d

 

Any other feedback is welcome. Thanks

[kmount]

Completed.

[muppet]

Done it.

[box_l]

me too

[strawberry]

done..

[leco]

Done. Do you want feedback on the survey or just the data?

[Kamran7860]

Feedback would be nice as well. thanks

[webman]

Completed.

 

Feedback: I wasn't sure if the "How many virtual servers do you have deployed at the moment?" question was for number of physical servers used for virtualisation, or number of virtual servers spread across hosts. In my case the answer is the same regardless, but just thought it could be more clear

[Mr.Ben]

Done!. Ditto with the comment above.

[Kamran7860]

Completed.

 

Feedback: I wasn't sure if the "How many virtual servers do you have deployed at the moment?" question was for number of physical servers used for virtualisation, or number of virtual servers spread across hosts. In my case the answer is the same regardless, but just thought it could be more clear

 

Point taken, ill fix that. thanks

[leco]

Sent you a PM with my feedback.

[pete]

Done. If you haven't already, look in the Server Room over at Ars for "in the trenches" type info:

 

The Server Room - Forum Powered by Social Strata

 

Specifically this thread: Biggest mistake you (or someone else) has made in a virtualization deployment? - Topic Powered by Social Strata

 

You missed out common problems/decisions with virtualisation projects in your survey (vm-sprawl: depts who'd normally give "x" out of their budgets for a physical server thinking virtual servers are "free", backend storage decisions, vendors not supporting their products in virtual environments)

[RabbieBurns]

just took it there too

[SYNACK]

Done, nice and short which was nice

[benaus]

Done. Good luck

[smadison]

Done, good luck.

[Abaddon]

Done here.

[bio]

also done !!

 

bio..

[tmcd35]

Done

[Tyiell]

Done. Enjoy your project

[chazzy2501]

Done. Virtualisation has lowered my stress levels! I love snapshots...

[Iain]

Completed!

[netadmin]

Done. Good luck.

[powdarrmonkey]

Done. One point: as a school, we have ~100 actual members of staff but with students, nearer 800 - they are users in exactly the same way, so 'employees' is a tricky term for an edu site

[Kamran7860]

Thanks for taking the survey. results are interesting. Edited January 15, 2010 by Kamran7860