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Virtualization challenges: Integrating physical and virtual components

Virtualization challenges: Integrating physical and virtual components

Virtualization challenges: Integrating physical and virtual components

Date: Dec 16, 2008

In this video, a network administrator sounds off on his company's recent virtualization project and how integrating the physical parts of their infrastructure with the virtual components presented some challenges. He also describes his ideal administrative virtualization tool.

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