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* Virtualization breaks the rigid bond between hardware and software, and allows multiple instances of an operating systems and multiple software applications to run on the same hardware box. In essence, virtualization “bundles” or encapsulates the operating system and a software application into a virtual machine. This entire “package” of virtual hardware - CPU, memory and networking, OS and application, is turned into a single software file. Virtual machines are hardware independent, and because they are files, they can be manipulated with the ease of file copy and paste. Virtual machines bring an entirely new level of efficiency and flexibility to the IT environment. One way to understand the impact of virtualization on the IT industry is to compare it with electronic banking – once the cash money was turned into bytes, it increased the velocity of commerce – money can be moved around the world now with lightening speed – because it is virtual, it is information. By turning physical capabilities into information, virtualization makes provisioning and managing the entire IT infrastructure a lot faster and more flexible. * There is a lot more to the current virtual infrastructure stack than the notion of partitioning a single server into multiple virtual machines – the notion that we just discussed. Single server partitioning was where the virtualization market was 5 years ago. Today, the virtual infrastructure stack includes a set of capabilities – distributed virtualization that allow to aggregate entire farms of servers and their attached storage and network, and turn them into logical pools of hardware resources click With virtual infrastructure the underlying hardware in the resource pool become completely interchangeable – any server of any kind can be “plugged” into the resource pool, and virtual machines are provisioned on top of the virtual infrastructure layer as virtual machines. click In this new paradigm, companies don’t provision individual ha