Virtualization is the single most effective way to reduce IT expenses while boosting efficiency and agility—not just for large enterprises, but for small and midsize businesses too.
Virtualization addresses IT’s most pressing challenge: the infrastructure sprawl that compels IT departments to channel 70% of their budget into maintenance, leaving scant resources for business-building innovation -VMware
Virtualization lets you:
Components:
Types of Virtualization :
1. Full Virtualization (Hardware Virtualization) : Full virtuliazation is the virtualization in which guest machine emulates the full feature of underlying hardware – including the full instruction set, input/output operations, interrupts, memory access, and whatever other elements are used by the software that runs on the bare machine, and that is intended to run in a virtual machine. In such an environment, any software capable of execution on the raw hardware can be run in the virtual machine and, in particular, any operating systems.Hypervisor plats the role of a manager controlling, assigning and balancing the resources to guest machines.
2. Paravirtualization : In paravirtualization each guest machine knows resources allocated to other guest machines which makes it load free and their is no need for guest VMs to interact with Hardware directly.
