Benefits Of Virtualization

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VIRTUALIZATION 2LT Le, Chuong H Class 003-014 In the Information Technology world, virtualization means using software to emulate a system by separating a resource or request for a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service. In layman term, Virtualization is a technology that allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine at the same time. This research paper briefly focusses on two categories of virtualization: hardware, and storage, while identify some of the benefits. Virtualization is commonly applied to physical hardware resources by combining multiple physical resources into shared pools from which users receive virtual resources. Virtualization software such as VMWare acts as a layer between a computer's primary OS and the virtual OS; allows the virtual system the ability to access the computer's storage space, memory, CPU, NIC, and other physical assets just like the primary OS. Virtual resources can have features or functions that are unavailable in their underlying physical resources. By partitioning one physical server into several virtual machines (VM), individual VM can interact independently with other applications, devices, data, and users as though it were a separate physical resource. Essentially, machine virtualization helps maximize hardware use by aggregating more applications and services onto fewer pieces of hardware, while maintaining operating system separation. Virtualization helps IT administrators make better use of the physical resources, without compromising the original intent of keeping services isolated. Different VMs can run different operating systems and multiple applications while sharing the resources of a single physical computer. ... ... middle of paper ... ...ame physical hardware, IT administrators can consolidate hardware and instantly build production, quality assurance, and test environments. Storage virtualization enables the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage sources into what appears to be a single storage device. This significantly helps administrators perform backup, expansion, archiving, and recovery tasks more effortlessly, and in a small amount of time. Virtualization can provide various benefits, including reducing hardware cost, better energy usage, optimization of workloads, flexibility and responsive. Virtualization allows the IT administrator to efficiently access and manages resources to reduce operations and systems management costs while maintaining needed capacity. With these types of benefits, most companies find it easy to justify the cost of implementing virtualization

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