Virtualization creates an abstraction layer between physical server hardware, operating systems and applications running on them. This abstraction layer presents end users with a logical view instead of a physical view of computing power resources.
Without virtualization, a simple computer architecture is given below.
A High level computer architecture using virtualization. By installing hypervisors you can have multiple OS as shown below having particular software application for each OS.
See More:
- Server Virtualization
- How it Works – Server Virtualization
- Example of Server Virtualization
- Hypervisors, Xen, VMWare, Hyper-V
- Comparison of Hypervisors
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