Getting Virtualization Right—From the Start - Get Ready to Start Charging (
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One thing that is currently lagging in virtualized environments is a good chargeback mechanism. In the era of running workloads on individual physical systems, chargeback was fairly straightforward. In the virtualization era, chargeback is going to take on a whole new level of importance. Groups that may have been willing to pay for servers reserved for their exclusive use will likely want a different price structure when sharing the physical resource with different parts of the organization.