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Beware of VM Sprawl



Virtualization was supposed to solve server sprawl and offer a simple route to data center consolidation. It hasn't. Virtual machines are so easy to deploy that many organizations are now suffering VM sprawl. They have reached the point where they do not know how many VMs they have and have no way to manage them. Rampant virtualization can turn out to be a curse, not a blessing. How can it be controlled?


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