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Organizations today are turning to virtualization for everything; consolidating multiple server workloads onto smaller servers, scaling their current applications, and achieving greater resource utilization by balancing workloads. It may seem like there are no downsides to implementing virtualization into your business environment, but unfortunately that is not the case.

Virtualization has created several hurdles for organizations to jump through in order to obtain the benefits virtualization is supposed to offer. Common problems include too many management points, multiple layers of software and hardware switching and scalability is difficult due to the time needing in order to configure servers and integrate them into the infrastructure.