Studying and Analyzing Virtualization While Transition from Classical to Virtualized Data Center

This paper discusses and brings together a detailed analysis of virtualization implemented at various levels of computing infrastructure, keeping in mind and providing detailed transition process adopted for transition from a classical to virtualized data center. It focuses on emerging trends or areas related with storage virtualization. Further, its various network level virtualization based implementations has been presented and analyzed. And finally it sums up with step by step process of transition from a classical to virtualized data center. General Terms Virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Storage Provisioning, Virtual machine (VM)