Chapter 4: Virtualization Management Challenges
by Anil Desai

Although virtualization technology can provide many significant advantages to IT environments, the use of virtual machines is not without potential drawbacks. Many IT organizations have come to the realization that initial purchase costs of hardware and software represent only a relatively small portion of overall expenditures. Additional factors that contribute to the bottom line include expenses related to administration, maintenance, and monitoring. The focus in Chapter 4 is on highlighting the types of issues that environments are likely to face as they manage infrastructures that contain a mix of physical and virtual computing technologies. The focus is on identifying the problems and how they can have a huge effect on overall IT environments.

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