Virtualization Fundamentals
In the early days, many organizations and IT professionals deployed a dedicated physical server for hosting an application. For instance, if an organization wanted to host an accounting application, the IT team would acquire a new server with robust hardware, install a licensed version of Windows Server, and install the account application on it.
If the organization wanted to host another application separate from the accounting application on the first server, the same process was repeated. This would result in multiple physical servers, increasing the need for physical storage space in the server room and an increase in expenditure to acquire new servers and maintain existing systems.
In addition to this, since physical servers usually have robust and server-grade hardware components, if a dedicated physical server were to host a single application, there’s a strong possibility the hardware components would be under-utilized. This is commonly...
