The benefits of virtualizing Hadoop are as follows:

• On-demand provisioning: Automate the cluster-deployment process as per the defined policy
• Continuous availability: vSphere's built-in HA protection protects the single point of failure
• Flexibility: Resources (CPU, memory, network, and storage) can be scaled up and down on demand as per your requirements
• Multi-tenant environment: Different tenants running Hadoop can be isolated within a shared infrastructure as per security compliance