Well, we've finally managed to persuade, cajole and browbeat the management into accepting that having about 20 physical servers for under 100 staff was a little excessive and expensive, and that virtualisation could offer us the benefits we need for business continuity, disaster recovery, energy efficiency and last-but-not-least cost savings.

The solution we selected as pretty much the only viable enterprise-grade option at the moment was VMWare's vSphere.