Monthly Archives: December 2009

Virtulization Sprawl: Don’t be Victimized!

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A few days ago, I was talking about spinning up a new VM to take on some random task, and a fellow Redspin geek jokingly asked if I had ever heard of virtualization sprawl.  I took a second to think about the population of Debian VM’s I had built in the past year;  I had more than doubled the headcount in our server block.  The geek in me says “Spin em up! Disk space is cheap! Cacti loves to make …