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Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

Overview In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

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Publisher	EMC	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Virtualization

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