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Open source Server Virtualization

Virtualization is most popular buzz world these days, speically server virtualization, people are sometime thinking why should i go for virtualization as computers and servers are getting cheaper day by day. But virtualization is a broad term it includes, Server, Platform, Storage, Desktop and Network etc. Earlier I was thinking why should I got for Virtualization? Why I need Server Virtualization? I came to know that Virutalization can combine multiple software workloads on one computer system and then I can run various VMs (Virtual Machines) which saves, money, space, power as we can use existing system resources which are not utilized suppose you have requirements for multiple servers like mail server, application server, database server, webserver, storage server, domain controller etc, then you may have multiple hardware for all in traditional case, but if you monitor all above server you will notice that all the server hardware resources are not utilized fully I.e Primary Mem