September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 26m
English
First there were computers. Data centers soon needed computer management software, especially as the number of computers grew beyond a handful. As it matured, that software enabled people to manage the entire life cycle of computers and their workloads: asset tracking, operating system (OS) provisioning, OS configuration, OS modification, OS redeployment, application provisioning and configuration, workload assignment and deployment, and resource utilization. Figure 9.1 shows the simplicity of this model.
Figure 9.1. Before Virtualization

Then virtualization was created. At first, it was simply a means to consolidate ...
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