The practice of condensing multiple physical servers into one server through the use of virtualization.
What is consolidation
100
Software that abstracts hardware resources from virtual machine.
What is Hypervisor
100
A capturing of a VM's state at a particular point in time.
What is Snapshots
100
The process of converting a physical sever to a virtual server.
What is P2V
100
A data file in a industry standard format that contains the exact image of an optical disc, like a CD or a DVD.
What is ISO image.
200
The practice of deploying new applications on virtual machines, rather than buying, provisioning, and deploying new physical server hardware.
What is containment.
200
A hypervisor that runs directly on the hardware
What is Type 1
200
A platform independent industry standard that defines a format for the packaging and distribution of virtual machines.
What is OVF (Open Virtualization Format)
200
A type of conversion that is done with the source machine nonoperational and the application shut down.
What is Cold Cloning
200
A combination of device drivers and processes that enhance the user experience with the VM, improve VM performance, and help manage the virtual machine.
What is VMware tools
300
A large computer room, an entire floor in a building, or a separate building outfitted and dedicated to the health and well-being of a company's computing infrastructure.
What is data center
300
A hypervisor that runs on top of an operating system.
What is Type 2
300
A device that allows a computer to connect to a network. Also called a network adapter.
What is Network Interface Card
300
A third party tool that is a type 2 hypervisor.
What is VMware Workstation
300
An industry standard that defines how storage devices connect and transfer data to computers.
What is SCSI
400
A computer server without any operating system software installed.
What is bare-metal
400
Began as a Cambridge University research project.
What is Xen
400
A virtual machine that is used as a mold for a commonly used configuration.
What is Template
400
A conversion that is done while the source server is booted and the application is running.
What is Hot Cloning
400
A Unix or Linux program that runs as a background process.
What is Daemon
500
The process where physical servers are converted in virtual machines but to their users appear and behave as before.
What is Virtualization
500
First commercially available hypervisor (1998) for the x86 platform.
What is VMware ESXi
500
The virtual representation of a computer processor.
What is vCPU.
500
The core or brain of a computer where the user and system commands are executed.
What is CPU
500
An open-source operating system that is a UNIX derivative.