What are some of the risk involved in managing a virtualized environment?

Although virtualization provides businesses with many benefits, there are some pitfalls. Detailed below are ten of the most common pitfalls.

1. Not being able to see or manage virtual machines

2. Having difficulty keeping track of what each virtual machines role is

3. Not having enough security on a physical host machine

4. Not knowing who manages what

5. Not controlling or managing the deployment of virtual machines

6. Not keeping track of resource utilization or applications

7. Not preventing virtual machines from being copied by unauthorized personnel

8. Forgetting licensing costs

9. Hidden costs

10. Overloading or underutilizing physical machines

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