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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

Here’s an interesting article about the performance overhead or ‘virtualisation tax’ as it is is so called of running a hypervisor.
In my opinion for most server workload types a 15%-20% overhead is more than acceptable when considering all the other benefits VMware brings with it.
VMotion, DRS, HA, speedy creation of new servers, simple and speedy [...]

According to virtualization.info ESX 3.5 is due to be released in December this year. Lots of the rumoured functionality seems to be in tact and there is going to be an all new ESX structure.