This document discusses virtualization and VMware vSphere 4.0. It provides an overview of virtualization and how hypervisors partition server resources for multiple virtual machines (VMs). It then discusses how vSphere goes beyond basic partitioning by aggregating infrastructure resources into a virtual "cloud" in the datacenter. Finally, it discusses key features of vSphere 4.0 including vCompute, vStorage, and vNetwork that provide optimization, availability, security and scalability.