Chapter 17. Server Virtualization Solutions

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

Server Virtualization History

Types of Server Virtualization and Hypervisors

Server Virtualization Benefits and Challenges

Server virtualization is a technology that allows abstracting physical x86 server hardware components, such as CPU, memory, disk, network interface cards, and so on. Once virtualized, those physical resources can be shared across multiple isolated instances of server operating systems running inside the virtual machines created on top of the virtual hypervisor.

The virtual hypervisor makes sure to schedule access to the actual underlying physical server resources. Virtual machines do not realize they run on top of virtualized hardware, ...

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