Virtual machine technology is proliferating across enterprise data centers. Server consolidation, energy savings and better resource utilization are all good reasons to consider using one physical server running a series of guest VMs. But as you dive deeper into VM technology, especially for virtualizing servers, you need to have a better understanding of the issues involved, particularly when you reach the point at which you run your VMs on what are called “bare-metal hypervisors.” 

My feature in this month’s Baseline magazine goes into more details.