Chapter 1. Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
In this chapter, we will dive into why seemingly simple technology, a hypervisor and its management console, have a large ramification for the IT industry. In fact, it is turning a lot of things upside down and breaking down silos that have existed for decades in large IT organizations. We will cover the following topics:
- Why virtualization is not what we think it is
- A comparison between a physical server and a Virtual Machine (VM)
- What exactly is a Software-Defined Data Center?
- A comparison between a physical data center and a virtual data center
- The impact on how we manage a data center once it is virtualized
