Virtualization: Climate
Before virtualization became publicly available, the idea of one application per server resulted in server sprawl.
Before virtualization became publicly available, the idea of one application per server resulted in server sprawl.
A hypervisor is software between the physical hardware and the virtual machines.
A virtual machine is flexible, as its physical form is a set of files, configuration file, and virtual disk files.
Storage virtualization abstracts the physical resources, and a logical representation of them is presented to virtual machines by the hypervisor