Virtualization & Virtual Infrastructures

  Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.

Virtualization was first introduced in the 1960s to allow partitioning of large, mainframe hardware - a scarce and expensive resource. Over time, minicomputers and PCs provided a more efficient, affordable way to distribute processing power, so by the 1980s, virtualization was no longer widely employed.

In the 1990s, researchers began to see how virtualization could solve some of the problems associated with the proliferation of less expensive hardware, including underutilization, escalating management costs and vulnerability. 

Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines, e.g. 16 Application Servers, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components. Imagine the hardware cost benefits available.

  The Key Benefit is Platform Isolation
* Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a  virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected.

* Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections.



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