Tutorial for Administrators, Intermediate and Advanced Level
This book provides the essential concepts as well as an advanced understanding of Vmware's ESX Server and explains what the virtual evolution is and why it is important. This book gives you the requisite knowledge to plan and execute a server consolidation project as well as build both basic and advanced virtual machines and a virtual infrastructure.
Combining software applications onto a single server, even if those applications are from the same software vendor, can be dangerous and problems hard to troubleshoot. VMware' ESX Server allows you to consolidate 15 to 20 or even more servers onto a single physical server reducing hardware, electrical, cooling, and administrative costs. These virtual servers run completely independent of each other so if one crashes the others are not affected.
Planning & implementing a server consolidation is a complex process.
This book details the requirements for such a project, includes sample forms & templates, and delivers several physical to virtual migration strategies.
Readers will be able to plan & deploy VMware's ESX Server and begin down the path of an evolved, virtual infrastructure in which costs, administration overhead, and complexity are reduced.
VMware has provided the technology for a virtual infrastructure and this book shows you how to build it.
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