Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere®

Introduction

The idea of virtualization of infrastructure for all levels of workload is a settled concept in the information technology industry. Because the subject of this book is VMware, we will examine the various factors that have driven the industry toward this inevitable outcome from the perspective of VMware, but the concept of virtualization is a much older and broader concept than the company that has changed the world over the past decade, VMware. The term virtual as well as the basic concept of virtualization was probably first used by IBM in the 1960s, along with the concept of a hypervisor, which was derived from the technical concept of a supervisor.

As the decades have progressed, the term virtual has been used, and overused, ...