APPENDIX
Answers to Additional Exercises
Chapter 1
- In the 12 years that have passed since the year 2000, processors speeds have doubled roughly every 18 months, or quadrupled every three years, for an aggregate gain of roughly 1,000 times. If the trend continues, over the next 10 years, they will be roughly another 500 times faster than today’s processors.
- At the present time, there are about two dozen different offerings for server virtualization. Of those, the top three cover 95 percent of the commercial market deployments. Two architectures are being deployed in the mainstream, although a few others exist in niche solutions.
- There is no actual minimum number of servers where virtualization is viable, although at smaller numbers the return ...
