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Before virtualization, each OS needed to be on a unique physical system.

With virtualization, you can place multiple virtual servers or clients on a

single physical system, reducing electrical power use substantially. Rather

than one machine running a Windows file server, another Windows system

acting as a DNS server, and a third machine running Linux for a DHCP

server, why not use one physical computer to handle all three servers

simultaneously as virtual machines (see Figure 22-1)?

Figure 22-1 Virtualization saves power.

Hardware Consolidation

Much in the way you can save power by consolidating multiple servers or

clients into a single powerful server or client, you can also avoid purchasing

expensive hardware that is rarely if ever run at full capacity during its useful

lifetime. Complex desktop PCs can be replaced with simple but durable thin

clients, which may not need hard drives, fans, or optical drives, because they

only need enough power to access the server. For that matter, why buy

multiple high-end servers, complete with multiple processors, RAID arrays,

redundant power supplies, and so on, and only run each server using a

fraction of its resources? With virtualization, you can easily build a single

physical server machine and run a number of servers or clients on that one

box.

System Management and Security

The most popular reason for virtualizing is probably the benefits we reap

from easy-to-manage systems. We can take advantage of the fact that VMs

are simply files: like any other files, they can be copied. New employees can

be quickly set up with a department-specific virtual machine with all of the

software they need already installed.

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