VIRTUALIZATION

VIRTUALIZATION

1. BENEFITS

   • Uses Hardware Efficiently
   • Available at all Times
   • Recovery is Easy
   • Quick and Easy Setup
   • Cloud Migration is Easier

2. DRAWBACKS

   • High Initial Investment
   • Data Can be at Risk
   • Quick Scalability is a Challenge
   • Performance Witnesses a Dip

3. CHALLENGES

   • Resource distribution
   • VM Sprawl
   • Backward compatibility
   • Performance monitoring

4. TYPES

   • OS VIRTUALIZATION
   • APPLICATION SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
   • APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION
   • ADMINISTRATIVE VIRTUALIZATION
   • ETWORK VIRTUALIZATION
   • HARDWARE VIRTUALIZATION
   • STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

5. DEFINITION

   • Virtualization uses software to create an abstraction layer over computer hardware that allows the hardware elements of a single computer—processors, memory, storage and more—to be divided into multiple virtual computers, commonly called virtual machines