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Understanding Virtualization
Understanding Hypervisors
Installing Windows on a VM
Understanding and Creating Virtual Machines
Installing Linux on a VM
100
The ability to abstract a physical server into a virtual machine
What is virtualization?
100
Originally called Virtual Machine Manager
What is hypervisor?
100
A data file in an industry standard format that contains the exact image of an optical disc, like a CD or DVD
What is an ISO Image?
100
A container that runs guest operating system and applications inside of a physical server
What is virtual machine?
100
An open-source operating system that is UNIX derivative that can run on a wide variety of hardware
What is Linux?
200
A combination of networking resources and disk arrays that provide data storage
What is SAN or Storage Area Network?
200
A logical unit of isolation, supported by hypervisors that can run operating systems or handle system management functions and device drivers
What is partition?
200
A virtual machine that is used to mold for a commonly used configuration, customization may need to be added
What is a template?
200
Performs the clone operation while the source server is booted and application is running
What is hot cloning?
200
RHEL
What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
300
The measure of concentration calculated by counting the number of VMs on an individual server
What is consolidation ratio?
300
A computer server without any operating system software installed
What is bare-metal server?
300
A combination of device drivers and processes that enhance the users experience with the virtual machine
What is VMware Tools?
300
An open industry protocol standard that typically is used to access Network Attached Storage systems
What is Network File System or NFS?
300
An open standard that defines and implements a computer’s ability to synchronize with Internet time servers or other servers
What is NTP or Network Time Protocol?
400
Condensing multiple physical servers into one server through the use of virtualization
What is consolidation?
400
A hardware or software appliance that balances traffic from multiple from multiple sources, preventing one pathway from being overloaded
What is load balancing?
400
The standard that defines how storage devices connect and transfer data by sending SCSI commands over Ethernet networks
What is iSCSI or Internet Small Computer Interface?
400
A connection type that allows a virtual machine to share an IP address on the physical network with other virtual machines
What is NAT or Network Address Translation?
500
The practice of deploying new applications on virtual machines, rather than buying, provisioning and deploying new physical server hardware
What is containment?
500
Manual or automated process that transfers data on a physical server into a virtual machine
What is P2V?
500
A UNIX or Linux program that runs as a background process
What is Daemon?