Show:
Hardware
Networking
Hypervisors
Storage
100
A container that runs a guest OS and applications with components abstracted in software.
What is a Virtual Machine.
100
A device that allows a computer to connect to a network
What is a NIC
100
A virtual machine running on a hypervisor
What is a guest
100
Disk drives that are attached internal to a computer
What is DAS, direct attached storage
200
A virtual representation of a computer processor
What is a vCPU
200
A unique 32 bit number that identifies a computer on a network.
What is an IP address
200
The server used to create and operate virtual machines.
What is a host
200
An open industry standard protocol for sharing storage over a network.
What is NFS, network file system.
300
A computer server without any OS software installed.
What is a bare-metal server.
300
A protocol used to automatically assign IP address information to computers.
What is DHCP
300
A platform-independent industry standard for packaging and deploying virtual machines
What is OVF
300
Industry standard protocol defined for connecting to storage area networks.
What is fibre-channel.
400
An aggregation hardware resources of that an administrator can divide up between virtual machines.
What is a resource pool
400
The protocol used to translate hostnames into IP addresses.
What is DNS
400
The process of converting a physical server to a guest VM.
What is P2V
400
The process a computer uses to transfer data between memory and disk storage.
What is paging
500
A process that allows a hypervisor to reclaim memory space by forcing a guest to dump its memory to disk.
What is ballooning.
500
A network switch created inside a hypervisor.
What is a vSwitch
500
A collection of files used to preserver the state of a virtual machine at a specific point in time.
What is a snapshot
500
A combined collection of network infrastructure and disk arrays to provide storage for other computers.
What is SAN, storage area network.