An exact copy is a virtual machine. Once cloned, the new Virtual Machine still needs final customization to ensure a unique identity.
What is a clone ?
100
Originally called a virtual machine manager.
What is a hyper-visor ?
100
An open industry protocol standard that is typically used for computers to access Network Attached Storage systems.
What is NFS ?
100
The process that computers use to copy blocks, or pages, of data from disk to memory and back again.
What is paging ?
100
A Virtual Machine that is used as a mold for a commonly used configuration.
What is a Template ?
200
There should be little or no difference in performance between the VM and a physical equivalent.
What is Performance?
200
A Virtual Machine, or VM on a host server.
What is a guest ?
200
The operating system made my Microsoft.
What is Windows ?
200
an open-source operating system that is a UNIX derivative.
What is LINUX ?
200
a data file in an industry standard format that has the exact image of an optical disc, like a CD or a DVD
What is an ISO image ?
300
The unique 32-bit number that identifies a computer or other device to the network.
What is a IP address ?
300
A commercial server platform that ends in i.
What is ESXi ?
300
It is a broad definition for a class of peripheral devices that either receive or deliver information to humans.
What are Human Interface Devices ?
300
a UNIX or Linux program that runs as a background process. They typically perform certain system tasks such as cron the system scheduler, or managing the ftp capabilities.
What is a Daemon ?
300
the virtual representation of a computer processor.
What is a vCPU ?
400
A connection type that allows a virtual machine adapter to have a direct connection to the physical network with a unique IP address.
What is a bridged network ?
400
The Microsoft equivalent of VMware.
What is Hyper V ?
400
the disk drives that are internal to a physical computer.
What is Direct Attached Storage ?
400
Short hand for one of the leading providers of Linux distribution. They make their money from support, not selling license sales.
What is REHL ?
400
Rules that link together two or more Virtual Machines so they reside on the same virtualization host.
What is VM-affinity ?
500
The VMM must have complete control of the system resources.
What is Isolation or Safety ?
500
The ability for a hyper-visor to allocate more virtual memory to its virtual machines than the amount of physical memory in the host it resides on through the use of memory management optimizations.
What is memory over-commit ?
500
an Intel microprocessor technology that improves performance by making more efficient use of the processing scheduling.
What is Hyper-threading ?
500
A computer architecture that provides enhanced performance through the concurrent use of multiple processors and shared memory.
What is SMP Virtualization ?
500
a storage technology that compresses data and reclaims disk storage space by removing duplicate copies of information.