What is Virtualization

What is Virtualization

Virtualization is a technology to run multiple same or different operating systems which is completely isolated from each other.
Ex: Run both Windows and Linux on the same machine

Virtualization and cloud computing:

• Virtualization is a technology where as Cloud Computing is a service.
• No virtualization then there is no Cloud Computing.
• Cloud Computing is built on top of Virtualization.

What is hypervisor ?

Hypervisor is a software layer sits between Hardware and OSes which will interact with hardware and resources and provide an interface to share the available resources to virtual containers.

Virtualization benefits:

• Virtualization offers major savings in data center operations.
• Virtualization makes possible significant reductions in the costs of managing data centers, with simplification of systems management tasks.
• Virtualization offers back-up and increased redundancy for delivery of high performance and high availability services.
• Virtualization is a step in the direction of “cloud computing”.