Virtualization with Proxmox VE

It is correct to ultimately understand containerization as a type of virtualization. However, here, we'll look first to conceptually distinguish a virtual machine from a container by focusing on contrasting characteristics.

Simply put, virtualization is a technique through which we provide fully-functional, computing resources without a demand for the resources' physical organization, locations, or relative proximity.

Virtualization technology allows us to share and allocate the resources of a physical computer with multiple execution environments. Without context, virtualization is a vague term. It encapsulates the abstraction of such resources as storage, networks, servers, desktop environments, and even applications ...

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