What is the ability to abstract a physical server into a virtual machine?
100
Hypervisor
What new term has replaced virtual machine manager?
100
Configuration file, Virtual disk file
What main files make up a VM?
200
1960
When was the first mainstream virtualization done on IBM mainframes?
200
Type 1 Hypervisor
What runs directly on the server hardware without an operating system beneath it?
200
Template
What is a mold, a preconfigured, preloaded virtual machine that is used to stamp out copies of a commonly used server?
200
Containment
What is the practice of initially deploying new application workloads as virtual machines so additional physical servers will not be required?
200
Source Disks
In order to install Windows, or any other operating system, you need what?
300
Fidelity, Isolation or Safety, and Performance
What three properties does a VMM need to exhibit in order to correctly satisfy their definition?
300
Type 2 Hypervisor
What type of hypervisor itself is an application that runs atop a traditional operating system?
300
Snapshot
What preserves the state of a VM, its data, and its hardware configuration?
300
Consolidation
What is the practice of taking existing physical servers and converting them into virtual servers that can run atop the hypervisor?
300
VM Tools
What tools are a combination of device drivers and processes that enhance the user experience with the VM, improve VM performance, and help manage the virtual machine?
400
Data Center
What could be anything from a larger computer room, to an entire floor in a building, to a separate building constructed and dedicated to the health and well-being of a company's infrastructure.
400
1998
What year was VMware founded?
400
Clone
Duplicating VMs is called?
400
Hot Cloning
What performs the clone operation while the source server is booted and the application is running?
400
Ubuntu
Popular versions of Linux include SUSE, CentOS, and what other popular Linux operating system?
500
Moore's Law
What law says that processing power roughly doubles every 18 months?
500
Xen
Citrix hypervisor software is called what?
500
Open Virtualization Format
What does OVF stand for?
500
Workbench
In order to build and configure virtual machines, what is needed?