1 How Virtualization Happens

Information in This Chapter

  • • Physical Machines
  • • How Virtualization Works
  • • Hypervisors
  • • Main Categories of Virtualization
  • • Benefits of Virtualization
  • • Cost of Virtualization

Just about every technology magazine and article published today mentions virtualization or cloud computing. According to the research published by Gartner, Inc., 18 percent of server workloads in 2009 ran on virtualized servers; that share will grow to 28 percent this year (2010) and reach almost half by 2012 (Messmer, 2009). The survey statistics show that large enterprises have driven server virtualization over the last several years and that VMware holds the largest market share against a handful of competitors, including Microsoft, ...

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