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I wonder how virtualization will tie into Identity Management in the future? I believe Ash once said these virtual components and appliances may take on identities of their own.

At work, I was asked to setup a VMWare Server for testing. We decided to test out VMWare’s Hypervisor Esxi Server which we heard was now FREE.

So what’s a hypervisor? Think of it as an operating system which does nothing but run virtual machines. It directly utilizes the hardware resources of your server and does not run on top of an operating system. So the idea is to maximize performance of your VMs, and possibly being able to run more VMs on a server than before simultaneously.

Microsoft has their own hypervisor. I recently received an email about an event they are doing to push their virtualization products. VMWare is of course a major player and there are others as well.

So we were interested in VMWare’s hypervisor but our major concern was connectivity, both onsite and offsite.

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