Doubtful. Containerization has eaten away at pure virtual marketshare — k8s is more popular now than VMWare. There’s not a chance in this world that the hypersc

Doubtful. Containerization has eaten away at pure virtual marketshare — k8s is more popular now than VMWare. There’s not a chance in this world that the hyperscalers are going to go back to single-purpose machines. KVM is also perfectly capable, as is Hyper-V, for the small workloads described here. VMware is the best, but if the best is too expensive, second-best does the job just fine. However, this piece also serves as an intro to the software of a modern datacenter. The author seems to have had a bunch of concepts thrown at them and had only a few sentences to explain each; actually looking at the techs involved will give you a better overview of what’s possible with only a physical machine or two!