The hypervisor serves as the gateway between virtual machines and external storage and networks. Thus, it carries a fundamental responsibility for moving data between virtualized applications and the real world. The storage and networking capabilities of hypervisors are particularly critical in organizations that are virtualizing applications with heavy I/O demands. Virtualized storage and networking is also a key concern for organizations that are virtualizing entire datacenters or computing infrastructures, requiring multiple virtual machine hosts to share data and processing over the network.

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	Storage Integration (18 ratings)
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