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Prior to the virtualization era, the only way to get full physical servers provisioned was via IT. This was a costly and time-consuming process. One of the major drawbacks of this method was that the machine’s resources—like the CPU, memory, and disks—remained underutilized. To get around this, the notion of virtualization started to gain traction.
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Jain, S.M. (2020). Virtualization Basics. In: Linux Containers and Virtualization. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6283-2_1
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