As with the free offerings, there are a number of commercial environments that we'd do well to explore in this book. We will look at both type 1 and type 2 virtualization solutions.
vSphere 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 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 VMware vCenter Server
Improved service levels and operational efficiency
Live migration of virtual machines
Automatic load balancing, business continuity, and backup and restore capabilities for your virtual machines
As you can see, there are many optimization options in the tool; however, unless you are building a complex and sophisticated...