Virtual Machines
As an infrastructure architect, you will think about the cloud as a virtual machine. While this is not wrong, there are many other solutions, which should be well understood to enable an architecture to be created that meets requirements in the most optimal way in terms of management overhead, cost, interoperability, and more. The majority of this chapter will focus on virtual machines; however, I would urge everyone to continue reading about the other services so that you’re aware of all the possible options. Through these capabilities many richer services can be deployed—for example, high-performance computing and very large enterprise applications, such as SAP.
Fundamentals of IaaS
One reason IaaS is so popular as an initial cloud service to consume by customers is that it’s easy to understand and relate to. Organizations have been using virtualization for years and understand the idea about taking a piece of hardware and dividing that hardware...
