Foreword

About 10 years ago I started in a new job. The company I started working for had a couple of hundred physical servers at the time. When several new internal software development projects started, we needed to expand fast and added dozens of new physical servers. Pretty soon we started hitting all the traditional problems datacenter problems like lack of floor space, high power consumption and cooling constraints. We had to solve our problems, and during our search for a solution, we were introduced to this new product called VMware ESX and Virtual Center. It didn’t take too long for us to see the potential and to start virtualizing a large portion of our estate.

During this exercise we started receiving a lot of positive feedback on ...

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