What is the ability to abstract a physical server into a virtual machine?
What is Virtualization
100
Supports an operating system and is configured with a set of resources to which the applications can request access.
What is a Virtual Machine
100
The practice of initially deploying new application workloads as virtual machines.
What is containment
100
Required in order to install Windows, or any operating system.
What are source disks
100
Can be converted to virtual machines and run alongside Windows servers on the same hardware hosts.
What are Linux servers
200
Anything from a larger computer room to an entire floor in a building.
What is a data center.
200
Levels in which the processor commands can be executed.
What are rings
200
The practice of taking existing physical servers and converting the into virtual servers that can run atop hypervisor.
What is consolidation
200
Many Universities have agreements to allow students to download for educational use at little or no cost.
What is Microsoft Windows
200
The master administrative account for a Linux system.
What is root
300
One of the founders of Intel.
Who is Gordon Moore
300
Copying files that make up an existing server.
What is cloning
300
Performs the clone operation while the source server is booted and the application is running.
What is hot cloning
300
A combination of device drivers and processes that enhance the user experience with VM.
What are VMware Tools
300
This is called in the event of a system crash.
What is the kdump process
400
The term that replaced virtual machine manager.
What is hypervisor
400
A preconfigured, preloaded virtual machine that is used to stamp out copies of a commonly used server.
What is a template
400
Allows you to make feature enhancement suggestions to the VMware Player product management team.
What is the Request a Product feature
400
Many administrators disable these features because they don't apply to the VM.
What are power management features
400
Linus distributions are made up of these.
What are packages
500
Began as a research project in the 1990's at the University of Cambridge.
What is Xen Hypervisor
500
A standard created by an industry wide group of people representing key vendors in the various areas of virtualization.
What is Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
500
Where you size the initial disk for your VM Player.
What is the Specify Disk Capacity screen
500
Often have many of the personalization features removed of disabled because fancy fonts and customized sounds are not necessary for an application server.
What are virtualized servers
500
A parameter that has been of particular interest with Linux virtual machines.