What is Virtualization?

There are a lot of noise going on around virtualization.
What is virtualization, and what advantages they provide?
In this article we look at technology to
how it can provide greater flexibility and cost
effectiveness for IT professionals and software developers.

Virtualization technology allows multiple virtual machines
to run on a host computer. These virtual machines can
run different operating systems such as Windows, Linux and
UNIX. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual
hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, hard disk, etc.)
allowing operating system to run as if it was installed
on physical machine.

The benefits of virtualization technology are far-reaching.
Many organizations shifted to a virtual machine
solution consolidate several servers, working side by
side on one physical computer. The consolidation of servers
allows IT professionals to fully utilize the resources server,
while isolation of virtual machines and allowing them to run
different operating systems and applications. Software
developers use technology virtual machine for rapid
test applications on different operating systems, without the hassle
the on setting up multiple physical machines for
testing or taking the risk of causing problems by testing in
a working environment.

You can read about the virtualization software quite a lot of any
platform. Once the software is installed simply
create virtual machine instances. Virtual machines
a simply a collection of files located on the machine. You
your configure a virtual machine settings on the host computer, install
the operating system and you& 39;re ready to go. This is a very practical use
common master image virtual machine.
This master image can be fully configured machine, with
the operating system and all the necessary applications
installed. You will be able to rapidly deploy virtual machines at
copying master image for a few Virtualization hosts
provide zero downtime and 100% availability server.

There a series of virtualization products available.
VMWare, which is probably the most popular, recently
announced, that it will release of a free version of its product
GSX Server. This will allow any organization, the host
virtual machines on any Windows or Linux hosts. Other
Virtualization Microsoft products include a virtual server and the company SWsoft Virtuozzo, just to name a few.



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