This document contains instructions for a term paper assignment on virtualization. It asks students to write a 6-8 page report comparing the top 3 virtualization software brands, examining the pros and cons of each, and making a recommendation. It also requires creating a 12-16 slide PowerPoint presentation to summarize the key points of the written report. The top 3 brands identified are VMware, Symantec, and Microsoft Application Virtualization. The report should explore whether virtualization would be beneficial for a particular organization.

1. These are the instructions:
Term Paper: Virtualization
Due Week 10 and worth 210 points
This assignment contains two (2) sections: Written Report and
PowerPoint Presentation.
You must submit both sections as separate files for the
completion of this assignment.
Label each file name according to the section of the assignment
it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume
all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this
assignment.
According to a TechRepublic survey performed in 2013,
(located at
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/research-desktop-
virtualization-growing-in-popularity/#
) desktop virtualization is growing in popularity. Use the
Internet and Strayer Library to research this technique.
Research the top three (3) selling brands of virtualization
software.
Imagine that the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of your
organization, or of an organization in which you are familiar,
has tasked you with researching the potential for using
virtualization in the organization. You must write a report that
the CTO and many others within the organization will read. You
must also summarize the paper and share your key ideas, via a
PowerPoint presentation, with the CTO and steering committee
of the organization.
This paper and presentation should enlighten the organization as
to whether or not virtualization is a worthwhile investment that
could yield eventual savings to the organization.
Section 1: Written Report
Write an six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Compare and contrast the top three (3) brands of virtualization
software available. Focus your efforts on components such as
standard configuration, hardware requirements price, and

2. associated costs.
Examine the major pros and major cons of each of the top three
(3) software packages available. Recommend the virtualization
software that you feel is most appropriate for the organization.
Provide a rationale for your recommendation.
Explore the major advantages and major disadvantages that your
chosen organization may experience when using virtualization
software. Give your opinion on whether or not you believe
virtualization software is the right fit for your chosen company.
Provide a rationale for your response.
Create a Microsoft Word table that identifies the advantages,
disadvantages, computer requirements, initial costs, and future
savings for an organization considering an engagement in
virtualization.
Use at least six (6) quality resources in this assignment.
Note:
Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
Section 2: PowerPoint Presentation
Create a twelve (12) to sixteen (16) slide PowerPoint in which
you:
Illustrate the concepts from your written report in Section 1 of
this assignment.
Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the CTO
and steering committee in the Notes section of the PowerPoint.
Note:
You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or

3. scenarios that have not been established throughout this
assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
Use a professional, technically written style to graphically
convey the information.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Analyze the types of organizational and computer architectures
for integrating systems.
Analyze the main classes of hardware and system software
components in an enterprise context.
Discuss common input / output technologies.
Describe computing technology, architecture, and future trends
in processing.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
enterprise architecture.
Write clearly and concisely about Advanced Computer
Architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and
technical style conventions.
Slide One: The role of virtualization in an organization.
Virtualization involves computing in which it is identified as
the creation of virtual besides actual version of something like
hardware platform, the storage device, network resources and
operating system.
Virtualization has great concerns in creating system within a
system so as to share the resources. This sharing of resources is
enabled by software which is designed to create environment on
use (Menken, 2008).
The virtualization software performs the operation by creating
instances that separate partitions on machine. Certainly, the
virtualization software juggles the machine resources in which
each instance has what is needed in order to run effectively.
Slide 2
Virtualization involves computing in which it is identified as
the creation of virtual besides actual version of something like
hardware platform, the storage device, network resources and
operating system.

4. Virtualization has great concerns in creating system within a
system so as to share the resources. This sharing of resources is
enabled by software which is designed to create environment on
use (Menken, 2008).
The virtualization software performs the operation by creating
instances that separate partitions on machine. Certainly, the
virtualization software juggles the machine resources in which
each instance has what is needed in order to run effectively.
Slide 3 Selling brand of Virtualization software
The virtualization technology is used in making hardware
resources expandable without having to shift software and the
data from one place to another.
In addition to the uses of virtualization, it is also used in
lowering costs of the computer hardware as a multiple virtual
servers which can be preferably hosted in single server
hardware (Wolf, 2005). Most often, the virtualization are used
to set up the separate environments for each software
application in order to avoid one application from interfering
with the other.
Virtualization may also be used as a standardized tool.
Considering businesses, the virtualization software provides
infrastructure which allows businesses to accommodate new
wave of the computer functionalities.
There are various levels in which virtualization works on, these
levels include server virtualization, storage virtualization and
the network virtualization together with the system
virtualization.
Slide4 The Selling Brand of Virtualization software
v
The top three selling brands of virtualization include VMWare,
Symantec and the Microsoft Application Virtualization.
v

5. The VMWare Server is certainly identified as the free
virtualization software from VMWare.
v
It supports almost all of the operating systems
v
This virtualization brand has support for the USB devices and
also it supports bridged, the host and the NAT (Muller, 2005).
v
VMWare virtualization comes along with the administrative
tools package that can be installed from the File menu. The role
of administrative tools is to make it easier to communicate
between host and the guest operating system without locking
mouse, paste and enabling of cut, copy, drag and drop
operations across host and guest OS.
Slide 5:
v
The top three selling brands of virtualization include VMWare,
Symantec and the Microsoft Application Virtualization.
v
The VMWare Server is certainly identified as the free
virtualization software from VMWare.
v
It supports almost all of the operating systems
v
This virtualization brand has support for the USB devices and
also it supports bridged, the host and the NAT (Muller, 2005).
v
VMWare virtualization comes along with the administrative

6. tools package that can be installed from the File menu. The role
of administrative tools is to make it easier to communicate
between host and the guest operating system without locking
mouse, paste and enabling of cut, copy, drag and drop
operations across host and guest OS.
Slide 6 SELLING BRAND OF VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE
v
The other brand of virtualization is Microsoft application
virtualization whereby it is an application virtualization as well
as application streaming solution from Microsoft.
v
The Microsoft application virtualization software allows the
applications to be deployed or streamed in a real time to any
client from the virtual application server.
v
In addition to this effective role, it removes the need for
traditional local installation of applications wherein attributing
to the streaming based implementation (Born, 2010).
v
It allows sandboxed from each other in order to present
different versions of same application which can run on the
App-V concurrently. Through this means, it allows the
centralized installation and management of deployed
applications and supports the policy based access control
whereby administrators may define and restrict access to
application by the certain users or computers.
Slide 7 THE COMPARISON OF THE THREE
VIRTUALIZATION BRANDS
v
The comparison of VMWare, Symantec and the Microsoft
Application Virtualization shows that these virtualization

7. brands play a major role in operating system and business
performance or an organization.
v
The standard configuration of VMware involves the
commitment in delivering enterprise class, attribute to
worldwide support with single objectives and organization
success.
v
VMware is well designed for the non critical applications and
platforms which require support in normal business hours.
v
The effective of this brand explores the basic virtual
infrastructure or products (Sauer, 2011). Similarly to the other
brands, the VMWare provides a fast and efficient access of an
organization to support centre in any region. In contrast, the
VMware and Microsoft are known to have increased in the
markets thus revealing the competition in the server
virtualization and in private cloud market computing as well.
The operation costs of VMware and the Microsoft application
distinct because VMware has 1,000 VM data centre.
Slide 8 Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtualization
Advantages
v
Virtualization software reduces VMM complexity
v
Improves functionality, Increase performance,
v
Provides server consolidation, testing and development, the
provision of Dynamic load balancing and the Disaster Recovery
and also improves the system reliability and security (Menken,

8. 2008).
v
The other advantages of Virtualization include conservation of
energy, maintenance of legacy application and supporting a
Cross-Platform office.
Slide 9 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF
VIRTUALIZATION
Disadvantages
v
The high risk in the physical fault, it has the same performance
v
It is not easy, but quite complicated, and it is not supported by
all applications (Portnoy, 2012).
v
It has a single point of failure hence it demands power
machines,
leads to lower performance and it always not possible
Slide 10 BENEFITS OF VIRTUALIZATION TO AN
ORGANIZATION
v
The server virtualization allows for the consolidation of
computer workloads in which organizations achieves energy
savings by reducing physical servers while maintaining the
level of computing on a single server (Wolf, 2005).
v
Therefore, the future savings for the organization are

9. implemented on cost savings, scalability, Flexibility and also in
agility.
Slide 11 VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE
RECOMMENDATION
v
I recommend the VMware virtualization software because
enables in creation of host machine which is a virtual switch
dedicated for NAT networking. This is because VMWare
provides a fast and effective access of an organization to
support centre in any region.
v
It has a virtual networking adapters and also supports nested
hardware- assisted virtualization and it supports the USB 3.0 for
the windows8 and guest VMS.
This is the paper.
Virtualization involves computing that creates virtual
software that mirrors actual version of something like hardware
platform, the storage device, network resources and operating
system. Virtualization has great concerns in creating a system
within a system so as to share the resources. This sharing of
resources is enabled by software which is designed to create
environment on use (Menken, 2008). The virtualization software
performs the operation by creating instances that separate
partitions on machine. Certainly, the virtualization software
juggles the machine resources in which each instance has what
is needed in order to run effectively.
The virtualization is beneficial in most ways like enabling
the users to try the multiple operating systems on a system
without having to rebuild it within each time. The other benefit
is that, it allows different platforms to share resources and
creates a mini laboratory on a computer; allowing
experimentation without risking the whole machine (Portnoy,

10. 2012). An appropriate example of virtualization is web hosting
whereby it is connected to the internet backbone in which the
server runs the virtualization software. Most of the businesses
are running as a result of virtualization. This is because the
virtualization software allows businesses to host several
software platforms on each server thus making optimal of the
available resources.
The virtualization technology is used in making hardware
resources expandable without having to shift software and data
from one place to another. In addition to the uses of
virtualization, it is also used in lowering costs of the computer
hardware as a multiple virtual servers which can be preferably
hosted in single server hardware (Wolf, 2005). Most often, the
virtualization are used to set up the separate environments for
each software application in order to avoid one application from
interfering with the other. Virtualization may also be used as a
standardized tool. Considering businesses, the virtualization
software provides infrastructure which allows businesses to
accommodate new wave of the computer functionalities. There
are various levels in which virtualization works on, these levels
include server virtualization, storage virtualization, and the
network virtualization, together with the system virtualization.
Use the internet to research this technique. Research the top
three (3) selling brands of virtualization software.
The top three selling brands of virtualization include
VMWare, Symantec, and the Microsoft Application
Virtualization. The VMWare Server is certainly identified as
the free virtualization software from VMWare. It support almost
all of the operating systems as guests or even hosts but the 64
bits guest OS might cannot be installed on 32 bit host. This
virtualization brand has support for the USB devices, and also it
supports bridged, the host and the NAT (Muller, 2005). This
virtualization comes along with the administrative tools package
that can be installed from the File menu. The role of
administrative tools is to make it easier to communicate
between host and the guest operating system without locking

11. mouse, paste and enabling of cut, copy, drag and drop
operations across host and guest OS.
The Symantec workplace Virtualization is identified as an
application virtualization solution for the Microsoft windows.
This type of virtualization performs a major role in an operating
system by allowing the applications and data to be added into
virtual layers like application layers and data layers besides
being installed to base file system and registry (Troy, 2012).
The benefit of Symantec workplace virtualization is that it
allows an activation known as on-the-fly activation, the act of
resetting of application and deactivation, also avoid conflicts
between applications and preferably remove them without
altering base windows installation.
The other brand of virtualization is Microsoft application
virtualization which is an application virtualization as well as
application streaming solution from Microsoft. However, the
Microsoft application virtualization software allows the
applications to be deployed or streamed in real time to any
client from the virtual application server. In addition to this
effective role, it also removes the need for traditional local
installation of applications attributing to the streaming based
implementation (Born, 2010). This allows sandboxed from each
other in order to present different versions of same application
which can run on the App-V concurrently. Through this means,
it allows the centralized installation and management of
deployed applications and supports the policy based access
control whereby administrators may define and restrict access to
application by certain users or computers.
Compare and contrast the top three (3) brands of virtualization
software available. Focus your efforts on components such as
standard configuration, hardware requirements price, and
associated costs?
The comparison of VMware, Symantec, and the Microsoft
Application Virtualization shows that these virtualization
brands play a major role in operating system and business
performance of an organization. The standard configuration of

12. VMware involves the commitment to deliver enterprise class
that will attribute to worldwide support with single objectives
and organization success. Since VMware is well designed for
non-critical applications and platforms which require support in
normal business hour or, the objective of this brand explores the
basic virtual infrastructure or products (Sauer, 2011). Similarly
to the other brands, the VMware provides a fast and efficient
access of an organization to support centre in any region. In
contrast, the VMware and Microsoft are known to have
increased in the markets thus revealing the competition in the
server virtualization and in private cloud market computing as
well. The operation costs of VMware and the Microsoft
application is different because VMware has 1,000 VM data
centre.
Examine the major pros and major cons of each of the top three
(3) software packages available. Recommend the virtualization
software that you feel is most appropriate for the organization.
Provide a rationale for your recommendation?
Major pros and major cons of VMware virtualization
software indicate that the VMware is a personal non-commercial
use and available for commercial use only if the VMware
Fusion commercial license is purchased (Sauer, 2011). The
disadvantages of VMware include creation on host machine
preferably a virtual switch dedicated for NAT networking, it
offers a well built in DHCP server that is shared by all NATed
VMs, it adds as many as ten virtual networking adapters and
also supports nested hardware- assisted virtualization and it
supports the USB 3.0 for the windows 8 and guest VMS.
The cons of VMware are it does not offer built-in VM
snapshot and built-in VM cloning. The preferred bridged
networking does not work with some Wi-Fi network adapters
when there is problem with unreachable network from host
machine. The VMware supports only single multiple virtual
monitors for Guest VMware and it also cannot be installed on
OS X or Solaris host operating systems (Troy, 2012). The other
cons of VMware virtualization is the less frequency updated and

13. very limited command-line interface for managing VMs. Major
Pros and major cons of Symantec virtualization software tackle
availability of the software and performance as well as costs.
The pros of Symantec virtualization software include an
extensive product offering, the secular growth and the merger
and acquisitions. It is also free for personal use applications
may interact with any other applications files in different ways
and it supports windows 7 x64. The other is for Symantec
virtualization software is the way it is easy to back up and
offers a professional Grade. The cons for Symantec
virtualization are the competition whereby this software has
fierce rivals in all of its main businesses. The other con
identified is distraction in which Symantec spent $13 billion to
purchase Veritas software that has a big storage provider
(Menken, 2008). The legacy business is another con for this
software because of the low growth and commodity businesses.
The appropriate cons for Symantec virtualization software
include security, traps files that are installed on system Drive
only, not well configurable and before installing there have to
be disabled layers or applications in order to create one.
The Major pros of Microsoft Application Virtualization
software include provision of flexible virtualization an integral
platform and powerful management. This means that it can
deliver platform agnostic. The Microsoft Application
Virtualization software allows applications to be deployed in
real-time to any client from a virtual application server thus
removing the basic need for local installation of the applications
(Born, 2010). An Enterprise may get the following benefits
when using Microsoft Application Virtualization software,
fewer application conflicts, faster and easier application
updates, ability to run multiple versions of same app side by
side, the flexible application which follow users online and
offline and the reducing of application to application regression
testing.
The appropriate cons of Microsoft Application Virtualization
software states that, it does not provides alternatives in

14. associate to system centre empowerment, it does not provide
compliance through access and control and also it does not
provide personalized solutions (Troy, 2012). The other cons
identified addresses that the Microsoft Application
Virtualization software has numerous versions of different
variants which makes it difficult to identify which software is
effective in architecture.
Explore the major advantages and major disadvantages that your
chosen organization may experience when using virtualization
software. Give your opinion on whether or not you believe
virtualization software is the right fit for your chosen company.
Provide a rational for your response.
My chosen organization is Accenture plc which is a
multinational management consulting, outsourcing company and
technology services. This organization is identified as the
largest consulting firm as measured by revenues. Therefore, this
organization Accenture plc gets better management through the
operation of virtualization software probably in business, higher
availability and uptime, speedy installations, the corporate
directives and also on higher reliability and performance (Gai,
2011). There is beneficial in which Accenture plc possess the
superior security, greater savings, affordability and also the
simpler streaming management through the use of virtualization
software. Certainly the virtualization software best suits my
chosen organization because of the cheaper implementation, the
conventional high-availability setups, increased service uptime
and availability and also the speedy installations.
Create a Microsoft Word table that identifies the advantages,
disadvantages, computer requirement, initial cost, and future
savings for an organization considering an engagement in
virtualization.
Advantages,
Virtualization software reduces VMM complexity, improves

15. functionality, Increase performance, provides server
consolidation, testing and development, the provision of
Dynamic load balancing and the Disaster Recovery and also
improves the system reliability and security (Menken, 2008).
The other advantages of Virtualization include conservation of
energy, maintenance of legacy application and supporting a
Cross-Platform office.
Disadvantages
The high risk in the physical fault, the same performance, it is
also not easy, quite complicated, and it is not supported by all
applications (Portnoy, 2012). The other major advantages of
virtualization indicates that the virtualization solutions tends to
have single point of failure, demands power machines,
virtualization may lead to lower performance and the
virtualization application is identified to be always not possible.
Computer requirement
The software and hardware requirements for the Microsoft
application virtualization, management server and streaming
server (Wolf, 2005). The computer requirements involve
hardware: processor, RAM and Disk space, Memory or Hard
disk. For the software the computer needs Windows server
2003, Windows server 2003 R2, Window server 2008 and
Windows server 2008 R21. Also the Windows XP, Windows
Vista, Windows 7 and windows 8
Initial cost
The initial cost of the Virtualization software tackles mostly
software, Hardware and labor. In most cases, the initial cost of
the virtualization of the software in an organization would

16. affect the organization’s TCO and ROI calculations (Portnoy,
2012). There is because of the tangible and intangible.
Future savings for an organization
The server virtualization allows for the consolidation of
computer workloads in which organizations achieves energy
savings by reducing physical servers while maintaining ample
level of computing on a single server (Wolf, 2005). Therefore,
the future savings for the organization are implemented on cost
savings, scalability, Flexibility and also in agility.