Acts as a console to view and interact with a Virtual Machine. Also known as a Virtual Machine Monitor.
What is a Hypervisor?
100
The first company to develop and release a commercially available x86 virtualization solution. Developer of ESXi and Workstation.
Who is VMWare?
100
Copying the exact state and configuration of a virtual machine into a completely autonomous second virtual machine.
What is a Clone?
100
VMWare’s type 2 hypervisor that comes in two variants: Player or Pro.
What is Workstation?
200
The abstraction of a physical component as a logical object, or emulating a physical process in a virtual environment.
What is Virtualization
200
An installable virtualization solution that has been packaged with Windows Server installs since Server 2008.
What is Hyper-V?
200
A preconfigured VM used as a basis from which to create other Virtual Machines.
What is a Template?
200
A suite of device drivers and processes that greatly improve the VM user experience when using VMWare environments.
What is VMWare Tools?
300
This can virtualize all computer hardware resources,
including processors, memory, storage, and network connectivity.
What is a Virtual Machine?
300
The type of hypervisor that is referred to as “bare-metal” because it runs directly on the server without an operating system beneath it.
What is Type 1?
300
These are VM states that are saved and can be restored back to after testing an application, or making a change that causes a problem the user would like to undo.
What are Snapshots?
300
A tool in VMWare virtualization solutions that allows the administrator to create and manage a virtually switched VM LAN.
What is Virtual Network Editor?
400
This refers to the space on a physical hard drive that is allocated and used specifically for one or more VM installations and data.
What is a datastore?
400
This hypervisor started as a research project at the University of Cambridge, and was later acquired by Citrix Systems.
What is Xen?
400
The practice of initially deploying new application workloads as VMs so additional physical servers aren’t required except to expand the virtual infrastructure.
What is Containment?
400
VMWare’s Type 1 hypervisor that is connected to remotely and managed by administrators using vSphere.
What is ESXi?
500
These two men stated that a Virtual Machine Monitor needed to exhibit Fidelity, Isolation and Performance in order to satisfy their definition of a VMM.
Who is Popek and Goldberg?
500
The type of hypervisor that runs above a traditional operating system like an application.
What is Type 2?
500
This acronym represents the term for the process of converting physical servers to virtual ones.
What is P2V?
500
This type 2 hypervisor is currently developed and distributed by Oracle free of charge.