Wednesday, May 29, 2013

What is Virtualization?

Virtualization in computing, is a term that refers to the various techniques, methods or approaches of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a virtual hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources.

Virtualization Pros:
  • Affordable disaster recovery
  • Data center footprint reduction
  • Fast system provisioning
  • Hardware lock-in escape
  • High physical resource utilization
  • Near-zero maintenance downtime
Virtualization Cons:
  • Investment in capacity management 
  • ISVs limited support
  • Partially market immaturity
  • High price for software platforms and hardware infrastructure
  • High risk of virtual machine sprawl
Platform Virtualization approaches:
  • Application Virtualization
  • OS Virtualization
  • Hardware Virtualization
Resource Virtualization  approaches:
  • I/O Virtualzation
  • Nework Virtualization
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Workspace Viirtualization



this facebook isn't virtualization?
yes, facebook is one of virtualization which very popular social networking site with over eight hundred million users.
 

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