VMware NSX Network Essentials

Chapter 1. Introduction to Network Virtualization

Starting from the mainframe days, server virtualization has a long history. However, today's data centers use virtualization features to abstract physical hardware, which would be a pool of resources such as CPU, storage, and memory, to the end users in the form of virtual machines. The easiest way to ensure server resource utilization is improved is through virtualization techniques. Server virtualization success has been hailed as a transformational event in data centers primarily because a single physical machine can run multiple operating systems and each operating system can be managed like a dedicated physical machine. This is a very simple but highly powerful solution. There are different ...