Our shop is has taken virtualization to almost an extreme. The VMWare team has modified configuration files so they can build a SQL Server from the ground up w/o DBA intervention. Sounds great, but the servers are directly delivered to the end user group before the DBAs have a chance for any follow on configuration. There is also no analysis to determine if the database(s) which require hosting can be placed on an existing asset. As a result, my team is being contacted on servers not performing well, and we don't even have the rights to login to the server, or even the instance.

Ray