To me server/networking hardware companies have a wet dream of manipulating workloads on physical servers the way one manipulates VMs in cloud computing.

Except the dream is to not do it just within a blade enclosure, but across blades in multiple racks, with network based storage in a multi-tennant environment. Maybe even across datacenters.

At some point, dealing (in an automated manner) with discovery, abstraction, and routing across different networking topologies, blade enclosures, rack switches, etc. becomes insane.

Of course a sysadmin with a few shell scripts could practically do the same for meaningful use cases without the general solution’s decade-long engineering effort and vendor lock-in…