> There is an element of practicality for very long-term maintenance if you run i.e. VMs off a different storage layer. That is very good advice. I know about

> There is an element of practicality for very long-term maintenance if you run i.e. VMs off a different storage layer. That is very good advice. I know about a datacenter outage/degradation in a very large company, which all of you know. A couple of network switches got overloaded. The switches connected the SAN to the VMs, so it caused all kinds of weird problems in different applications.