Virtualization

Question 1

What is Virtualization? What is the benefit of this?

Answer 1

• Is the process of emulating hardware and software within a device such as computer, server (machine) on a host machine via software known as Hypervisor.
• Allows multiple virtual machines to be run and shared on a host machine.

Question 2

What are two examples of a Hypervisor?

Answer 2

VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Question 3

What are two different types of Hypervisors? What’s the difference and where would they be used?

Answer 3

• Type I Hypervisor is embedded within a host machine and is commonly found within data centers.
• Type II Hypervisors is used as a software application on a host machine; commonly used within personal comptuers.