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Contents Introduction ...............................................................................1 About This Book ......................................................................2 Foolish Assumptions ..............................................................2 How This Book Is Organized .................................................2 Icons Used in This Book ........................................................3 Where to Go from Here...........................................................4 Chapter 1: The What and Why of Virtualization .............5 In the Beginning: The Mighty Mainframe ...........................6 Trend Spotting: Data, Data Everywhere ............................7 Seven Good Reasons to Virtualize .......................................8 Chapter 2: The Evolution of Virtualization ......................11 Hypervisor 101: Sharing the Love ......................................11 Today's Challenges ................................................................12 The Next Generation: Virtualization 2.0............................13 Chapter 3: Virtualization 2.0: Starting with Operations Management ..........................17 Capacity Management ..........................................................18 Capacity management: What is it? ..............................18 How it's done: Millennium Pharmacy optimized IT resources with VMware ......................19 Performance Monitoring ......................................................22 Performance monitoring: What is it? .........................22 How it's done: Cornerstone optimized IT performance with VMware ....................................23