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17.1 VMware overview
VMware provides software virtualization (hypervisor) support for Intel-based hardware. It
allows the use of multiple operating system images and operating system types, hosted from
the same physical hardware, which in turn generally allows greater overall utilization of that
shared hardware. Each operating system image virtualized in this way will be referred to as a
guest from now on.
There are a number of types of VMware server available. For the rest of this chapter we
discuss the VMware ESX server, since that is the enterprise version and will most likely be
used for production services.
A number of VMware guests hosted on the same ESX server usually ...
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