Friday, January 6, 2017

VIRTUALIZATION OF OPERATING SYSTEMS

What is Virtualization?

OS virtualization
Create a platform that emulates a hardware platform and allow multiple instances of an OS to use that platform, as though they have full and exclusive access to the underlying hardware
 
Virtualization – Why?
Server Consolidation 
Often many servers support 1 major application 
Strong isolation between VMs 
Virtualization saves on hardware & energy 
Disaster Recover
 High Availability 
Testing and Deployment

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