In 1969 Edward Lorenz, the famed meteorologist and Chaos Theory proponent,
introduced the concept now known as the "Butterfly Effect" when he posed the
famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a
tornado in Texas?" The Butterfly Effect theory describes the phenomenon of
how small variations in a dynamic system can subsequently cause larger and
more complex variations over the long term.
Today's modern virtualized data center represents a new kind of dynamic
system. Just as the Brazilian butterfly may set off a tornado a world away,
any change to the virtualized objects that are the components of the virtual
infrastructure can have severe and unintended consequences to virtualized
systems, networks, and data centers. As virtualization techno... (more)