The transition from physical servers to virtualized environments was hailed as the ultimate operational victory for enterprise technology. Hypervisors liberated software from hardware. We gained the ability to provision an entirely new server environment in minutes rather than weeks. The agility provided by platforms like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V completely reshaped the modern data center. However, this incredible convenience birthed a terrifying new operational crisis. We made spinning up servers so incredibly easy that …