'Practical Virtualization Solutions' Excerpt

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This book answers crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization. Our excerpt gives you a vendor-neutral but technical overview of the types of virtualization available.


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From InformIT | Nov 16, 2009

If you're involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you'll need. Packed with examples and case studies, "Practical Virtualization Solutions" is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle.

Authors Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You'll learn what really works and what doesn't and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization.

This excerpt is the book's second chapter entitled, "Comparing Virtualization Technologies." This chapter gives you a vendor-neutral but technical overview of the types of virtualization available.

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