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Good article.
One thing I would add, being about 6 months after our first wave of server virtualisation, is that you soon start to think of other jobs that new virtual servers could do for you, and so does everyone else! If you are not careful, suddenly everyone in the organisation 'wants a virtual server to do XXX' and you no longer have the excuse that they are all busy or overloaded because they rightly point out that you can create a new server very easily.

Having got this far in our process, I would advise anyone starting this to plan for a large injection of virtual disk space, and maybe another host server or two about 6-12 months in. Then you can carry on providing as the demand picks up.

Hope this is helpful.

Simon