Virtualization facts

1 What is virtualization?

Virtualization (or virtualisation) is the creation of a virtual  version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources.

2 What are the benefits of virtualization?

 

Virtualization Benefits

1. It helps in saving lots of cost and allows easy maintenance.

2. It allows multiple operating systems on one virtualization platform.

3. It removes the dependency of heavy hardware to run the application.

4. It provides servers that are used for crashing of a server purpose

5. It reduces the amount of space being taken by data centres.

3 What is the purpose of a Hypervisor?

Hypervisor is a program that manages the virtual machine.
It allows multiple operating system to share single hardware resource.
Each operating system in this consists of its own defined space consisting of space, memory and processor. It is used as a controller program to control host processors and resources.

4 What is a VMware kernel?

VMWare kernel is a proprietary kernel that means that it is a registered kernel by VMWare Company and it is not based on any other kernel architecture or any other operating system.

5 Features of VMware.

VMware provides web browser Interface.

It provides easy to use wizard to configure the Settings.

It provides tools to easily create hosts and maintain it from one Place.

It provides easy maintenance of Virtual Machines.

It provides easy graphics to configure the VMWare settings for security