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Advantages of virtualization

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Advantages of virtualization

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- [Instructor] In this video, we are going to focus on some of the advantages that virtualization has to offer. The very first one is the cost. Yes, when you do not have to buy so many of computer hardware or other computers to rack and stack them and you're going to have your computers being virtualized, then the very first thing that you will have is the savings. The cost will go down significantly. That's why a lot of corporate environment, a lot of corporate companies, are moving from physical systems to virtualization. Then we have real estate. When we talk about real estate meaning when you have a lesser number of computer hardware, then of course you'd need a smaller space to rack and stack them. Compared to having 10 physical servers, you could have one physical server with their required resources and then you could run 10 and different virtual machines on it. That's when you're going to save a lot of money on…

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