As with the free offerings, there are a number of commercial environments that we want to discuss in this book. We will look at both type 1 and type 2 virtualization solutions.
This is an extremely powerful continuation of the capabilities discussed with the VMware Hypervisor; the added capabilities and features make it well worth the investment to deploy sophisticated and complex virtual architectures. The tool provides so many additional options above and beyond the free variant. These options are as follows:
Pool computing and storage resources across multiple physical hosts
Centralized management of multiple hosts using the VMware vCenter Server™
Deliver improved service levels and operational efficiency
Perform live migration of virtual machines
Take advantage of automatic load balancing, business continuity, and backup and restore capabilities for your virtual machines
As you can see, there are many optimization options with the tool; however, unless you are...