This book is a full and complete introduction to VMware Infrastructure 3. It
provides you with all the information you need to design and install a virtual
infrastructure. VMware Infrastructure 3 For Dummies explains the components
in VMware Infrastructure 3. In addition, planning, designing, installing, and
configuring your first VI3 environment is covered. Using VI3 requires you to
understand a lot of information, which isn’t difficult when you break it into its
most basic parts.

Computer scientists make great use of the term primitive — and not to
describe a nonindustrial culture. Computer scientists use primitive to
describe the simplest base unit used to create more complex items. For
instance

- Programming languages use primitive data structures to describe the
built-in data types, such as integers.

- CPU designers use primitive to describe a single processor instruction,
such as add.
VI3 is made of thousands of easily understood primitives combined in
groups. These groups are mixed and matched to create a rather complex
system.

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