A computer server without any operating system software installed.
What is Bare-Metal?
100
The practice of deploying new applications on virtual machines, rather than buying, provisioning, and deploying new physical server hardware.
What is Containment?
100
The ability of a hypervisor 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 Overcommit?
100
Rules that ensure that two machines do not reside on the same virtualization host. Live migration, automatic and manual, as well as high-availability recovery, will respect these rules.
What is Anti-Affinity?
100
A free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation.
What is VirtualBox?
200
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?
200
A large computer room, an entire floor of a building, or a separate building outfitted and dedicated to the health and well-being of a company's computing infrastructure.
What is a Data Center?
200
The manual or automated process that transfers the data on a physical server into a virtual machine. The data includes the operating system, application files, and all data files.
What is P2V or Physical-to-Virtual?
200
A combination of device drivers and processes that enhance the user's experience with the virtual machine.
What is VMware Tools?
200
A native hypervisor formerly known as "Windows Server Virtualization". Capable of running on both x86 and x64 based systems.
What is Hyper-V?
300
An exact copy of a virtual machine. The copy still needs final customization to ensure a unique identity.
What is a Clone?
300
Hardware and/or software solutions and implementations that allow a server to lose one or more components to a failure without data loss or service interruption.
What is Fault Tolerance?
300
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 a Snapshot?
300
An application used to remote into an ESXi server for administrative purposes.
What is vSphere Client?
300
An enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware.
What is ESXi?
400
The practice of compressing down multiple physical servers into one server through the use of virtualization.
What is Consolidation?
400
The name of a virtual machine, or VM, when it runs on a host server.
What is a Guest?
400
A virtual machine that is used as a mold for commonly used configuration. Once the mold is deployed, the virtual machine still needs final customization, such as a system name and network information.
What is a Template?
400
A pre-packaged VM with an application on it.
What is a Virtual Appliance?
400
A hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux. Developed by VMware and it's most feature-filled version.
What is VMware Workstation?
500
A measure of consolidation calculated by counting the number of virtual machines on an individual server.
What is Consolidation Ratio?
500
Originally called a Virtual Machine Manager, it is a layer of software that is installed either between an operating system and the virtual machines or directly onto the hardware, or "bare-metal," and provides the environment in which the virtual machines operate.
What is a Hypervisor?
500
Rules that link together two or more virtual machines so they reside on the same virtualization host.
What is VM-Affinity?
500
A VM migration technique.
What is vMotion?
500
Virtualization software developed by Parallels. Meant for Mac computers with Intel CPUs.