What is Virtualization?
What is Virtualization? Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual version of something- computer hardware, storage and network. It allows for the distribution of a machine’s capacity among multiple user environments. Traditionally, it was easier and more reliable to run individual tasks on individual servers: a single server hosts a single operating system that runs a single task at a time. With virtualization, one can split independent tasks onto different hardware resources. Hence, hardware resources are utilized to their maximum capacities with multiple tasks . The technology that enables virtualization is called the hypervisor - it gives multiple users simultaneous access to perform batch processing. Most enterprises have single-vendor IT stacks that don’t allow their legacy applications to run on a different vendor’s hardware. With virtualization, companies can partition their servers and run multiple operating systems and versi...