I can remember in the late 1990s “x86 virtualization” was frowned upon and thought of as impractical. But since the mid 2000s there has been a huge jump in the technology’s development and deployment.
Introduction to Virtualization
Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility. VMware virtualization software enables businesses to lower IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness
Server Consolidation & Containment
Many organizations face server sprawl as a side effect of business growth without realizing the fully burdened costs of managing these new servers. Server sprawl is costly in terms of not only hardware costs but also costs in maintenance and the resources needed to maintain peak performance. VMware server consolidation and containment solutions allow enterprises to enable workload isolation and granular resource control for all of the system's computing and I/O resources.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Introduction to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VDI is a server based PC management solution for enterprise desktop administrators to provide desktop environments as an enterprise hosted service. Unlike thick client PC architectures, all user application, data, and environments are centrally located and managed in the data center. Unlike shared application environments or blade PC solutions, VDI provides a true isolated PC environment while sharing underlying hardware resources. VDI allows administrators to provide PC environments with all the benefits of virtualization: central management, hardware consolidation, and resource flexibility
