Virtualization Essentials, 3rd Edition

APPENDIXAnswers to Additional Exercises

Chapter 1

• In the 8 years that have passed since the year 2015, processors' speeds have doubled roughly every 18 months, or quadrupled every 3 years, for an aggregate gain of roughly 32+ times. If the trend continues, in 10 years they will be roughly another 128 times faster than today's processors.
• At the present time, there are more than a dozen offerings for server virtualization. Of those, the top three cover 95 percent of the commercial market deployments. Two architectures are being deployed in the mainstream, although a few others exist in niche solutions. Cloud-based solutions are also available.
• There is no minimum number of servers where virtualization is viable, although at smaller numbers ...