International Journal for Scientific Research & Development
IJSRD - International Journal for Scientific Research & Development| Vol. 2, Issue 02, 2014 | ISSN (online): 2321-0613 Virtualization : A Novice Approach Amithchand Sheety1 Mahesh Poola2 Pradeep Bhat3 Dhiraj Mishra4 1,2,3,4 Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering, Eastern Express Highway, Near Everard Nagar, Sion-Chunabhatti, Mumbai-400 022, India. Abstract— Virtualization provides many benefits – greater as CPU. Although hardware is consolidated, typically efficiency in CPU utilization, greener IT with less power OS are not. Instead, each OS running on a physical consumption, better management through central server becomes converted to a distinct OS running inside environment control, more availability, reduced project a virtual machine. The large server can "host" many such timelines by eliminating hardware procurement, improved "guest" virtual machines. This is known as Physical-to- disaster recovery capability, more central control of the Virtual (P2V) transformation. desktop, and improved outsourcing services. With these 2) Consolidating servers can also have the added benefit of benefits, it is no wondered that virtualization has had a reducing energy consumption. A typical server runs at meteoric rise to the 2008 Top 10 IT Projects! This white 425W [4] and VMware estimates an average server paper presents a brief look at virtualization, its benefits and consolidation ratio of 10:1. weaknesses, and today’s “best practices” regarding 3) A virtual machine can be more easily controlled and virtualization. inspected from outside than a physical one, and its configuration is more flexible. This is very useful in I. INTRODUCTION kernel development and for teaching operating system Virtualization, in computing, is a term that refers to the courses.
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