Buliding N1™ Grid Solutions Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers

Virtualizing the Infrastructure

The second step in the building block process is the virtualize phase.

Virtualize— Providing an abstract view of a collection of discrete compute, network, and storage resources in the infrastructure layer for reducing management complexity and increasing operational efficiency

Virtualization was discussed twice before in earlier chapters. Because the word is often overused in the IT industry, great care should be taken to ensure that any discussion of virtualization is explained with specific clarity and context. Virtualization is a term used to convey the abstraction of some entity—for example, how an operating ...