Chapter 3. Oracle Databases and Applications in Virtual Infrastructure: Architectural Concepts

VMware vSphere is the industry’s most trusted virtualization platform. In fact, it is correct to say that vSphere is the world’s only “platform of virtualized hardware.” The main focus of the idea of virtualized infrastructure is to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud infrastructures and to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable information technology (IT) services. VMware vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple systems and provides pools of virtual resources to the datacenter.

In this book, we adhere to the framework of the four V’s: viability, value, versatility, ...

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