Basics of Virtualization

What is Virtualization

Virtualization is a technology that uses software to create an abstraction over the computer hardware. This allows the resources of a single computer to be shared by many computers, called as Virtual Machines or VMs.

Virtualization allows for more efficient utilization of the hardware and allows a greater return on the company/organization's investment. It is the technology that drives Studio/Expeditions/Cloud Engineering/Cloud Technology.

Hypervisors

Hypervisors facilitate and coordinate the creation and management of VMs on a computer hardware.