What you manage has changed

Before we cover management, it is important to understand what it is exactly that needs to be managed. This is because it changes drastically. We will use the physical aspect of SDDCs to drive the point. It is easy to use the physical element as that's where our experience comes from, and it's also easy to mentally picture it.

Ponder the following question: how many people does it take to manage one rack's worth of hardware?

Your answer is likely "Not many." After all, it is just one standard rack. The entire thing barely occupies a small server room.

If your entire data center can fit inside one standard rack of equipment, that makes it a small operation. It is indeed a small operation for physical systems. However, in SDDC, you can achieve 1000-2000 VM per rack from a performance point of view. We're using a standard 30:1 consolidation ratio, which is possible with Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3. With 18 cores per socket, you have 36 physical...