Types of virtualization
Virtualization is a broad term, and addresses a wide range of core-computing elements, but here we will mainly discuss three major types of virtualization, which are as follows:
- Server virtualization
- Network virtualization
- Storage virtualization
Server virtualization
In the first type of virtualization, we build virtual computers on a physical computer that is running virtualization software. Now let's elaborate this to better understand the concept here. This means the need of a computer that mainly comprises hard disk, processor, and RAM and other hardware components is fulfilled virtually on a physical computer with the help of the virtualization software that we call the hypervisor. By doing this we try to create as many ...
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