At this year’s VMworld Europe keynote address, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod says that one day, thousands of virtual machines will be manageable through one management console. Herrod hopes that day won’t be too far off, what with virtual machines these days being tapped with four virtual CPUs, up to 64 GB of RAM, and 9 Gbps of bandwidth.

Harrod says that machines using up to 8 CPUs should be commonplace in the near future. Still, if you’re not convinced yet that virtualization is the norm for coming years, perhaps nothing will move you.