1. Research and provide a written recommendation for virtualization using VMWare.
2. Research VMWare applications for data center virtualization, data management, and virtual storage.
3. Explain how virtual machines can provide flexibility and disaster recovery capabilities will change the executive team’s initial resistance to migrate to a virtual environment.
4. Based on your research, provide a recommendation for a proposed target platform for a typical host machine, including the number of central processing units (CPUs), the amount of memory, the number of network interface cards, and the amount of local storage required.
5. Based on your research of reported virtualization metrics, provide a rough estimate of the number of physical machines that can be virtualized in a host machine for a typical data center environment
6. Justify your selection by identifying the problems that these methods will solve and the benefits that will be achieved by using these methods.
