4. Managing Virtual Resources

When considering the benefits derived from virtualization, one of the top benefits is the improved administration and management of the virtual machines. Virtualization provides the tools and opportunities to create, configure, and manage virtual machines (VMs) in a way administrators could never have previously imagined. Examples of the virtual resources that can be managed through common administrative tasks include the following:

Image Creating VMs, from scratch or from templates

Image Starting, suspending, and migrating VMs ...

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