Chapter 7. Virtual Machine Management
Creating, migrating, and deleting virtual machines is relatively easy compared to performing the same actions with physical machines. The flexibility that virtualization enabled has many benefits for an IT group. Virtualization means better utilization of resources through consolidation, faster deployment time for virtual machines, and improved optimization in the datacenter by migrating virtual machines. There are, however, some potential disadvantages to virtualization that can be mitigated or completely avoided. The negative impact of virtualization is mostly centered on poor management of a virtual machine environment—oversubscription of hosts (placing too many virtual machines on a single physical machine) ...
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