Virtualization

Question 1

What is VMM?

Answer 1

Virtual Machine Manager

Question 2

What are Virtual machine images?

What are their benefits?

Answer 2

Templates for creating new VM instances. Can be a plain OS with pre-installed software.
Benefits:
- are created with the proper patches.
- ensures any software is installed & configured right.

Question 3

What are the VM architectures?

Answer 3

Full virtualization.
Host-based.
Hypervisor.

Question 4

What is the purpose and benefits of VM?

Answer 4

Using VMs is to consolidate multiple functionalities on the same server to increase resource utilization rates and application flexibility.

Question 5

What is a Virtual Appliance?

Answer 5

Applications that run on the same OS bundled together. May also include libraries.
Can be ported to any hardware platform.