A computer server without any operating system software installed.
What is Bare-Metal
100
This is an open industry protocol standard that is typically used for computers to access Network Attached Storage systems.
What is Network File System (NFS)
100
The practice of condensing multiple physical servers into one server through the use of virtualization.
What is Consolidation
100
A combination of device drivers and processes that enhanced the user's experience with the virtual machine, improve virtual machine performance, and help manage the virtual machines.
What is VMware Tools
200
This can virtualize all of the hardware resources, including processors, memory, storage, and network connectivity.
What is Virtual Machine
200
The core or brain of a computer where the user and system commands are executed.
What is CPU (Central Processing unit)
200
An exact copy of a virtual machine.
What is Clone
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 data file in an industry standard format that contains the exact image of an optical disc, like a CD or a DVD. They are used in this context to contain operating system or application files, usually for instillation.
What is ISO Image
300
This is the software that provides the environment in which the VM's operate.
What is Hyper Visor
300
A device that allows a computer to connect to a network. Also called a network adapter.
What is NIC (Network Interface Card)
300
This is a platform independent industry standard that defines a format for the packaging and distribution of virtual machines.
What is Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
300
The manual or automated process that transfers the data on a physical server into a virtual machine. the data includes the operating system, applications files, and all data files.
What is P2V
300
The software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals.
What is Operating System
400
When companies don't purchase new hardware when there lease is over or owning the equipment when there hardware maintenance licences expire they just virtualize the server workloads.
What is Containment
400
This began as a researchproject in the late 1990's at the University Of Cambridge, the goal of which was to create an efficient platform for distributed computing,
What is The Xen Hypervisor
400
This is a set of files that preserve the state of a virtual machine at a given point in time so you can repeatedly revert back to that given state.
What is Snapshot
400
This performs the clone operation while the source server is booted and the application is running.
What is Hot cloning
400
This is an open standard that defines and implements a computer's ability to synchronize with internet time servers, or with other servers.
What is Network Time Protocol (NTP)
500
The process by which physical servers are abstracted into software constructs.
What is Virtualization
500
Contains all of the necessary processes to support virtual machines and manage the hardware and availability resources.
What is VMKernel
500
This is a virtual machine that is used as a mold for a commonly used configuration.
What is Template
500
This is when conversions are done with the source machine nonoperational and the application shut down, which ensures that it is pretty much a straight copy operation from old to new.
What is Cold cloning
500
An open-source operating system that is a UNIX derivative.