Q1. I am not sure what you mean by Third Party Integration could you re-phrase.

Q2. This depends a lot on your infrastructure. With a well equiped datacenter virtualization can scale till you say stop. Most of the virtualization solutions on the market at the moment comes with client tools that make it easy the manage your virtual systems. e.g ESX comes with the virtual Center Client wich is excellent. After install you may never need to use the command prompt.

Q3. First you need to know what the problem is. If the problem you have is a problem that vitualization can solve; then using it corrent capabilities should be able to design a solution.

Q4. If you are unsure about what virtualizing will be able to do for you - visit one of the trad show or find someone who have done it already. At the moment virtualization is being use very demanding invironments with no problem. But again it depens on the problem you are trying to resolve. So define your problems first and go from there.

Q4. When to virtualise - I think you can start anytime. What to Virtualise, Check the the different white papers available and see what other people are virtualizing.

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