Virtualization Essentials

Performing P2V Conversions

Virtualization technology and its use by corporations did not spring up instantly out of nowhere. Even though increasing numbers of virtual machines are being deployed today, there are still many millions of physical servers running application workloads in data centers. A large percentage of new workloads are still being deployed as physical servers as well. As data center administrators embraced virtualization, there were two strategies for using virtualization in their environments.

The first of these is containment. Containment is the practice of initially deploying new application workloads as virtual machines so additional physical servers will not be required, except to expand the virtual infrastructure capacity. ...