Welcome to Module 2

Understanding Virtualization

By: Imran Afzal

 Virtualization
• What is Virtualization?
• Let’s understand the physical system configuration

Excel, Word
DNS, NTP Application Application 2G + 1CPU = App
ERP, SAP etc.

Windows
Linux
Operating System Operating System 4G + 2CPU = OS

Dell
Physical Server Physical Server 16G RAM
HP
4 CPU

8G and 2CPU
Resources are under utilized
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 Virtualization
• Now let’s look at virtualization

App App App App

OS OS OS OS
4G RAM + 1 CPU = Each OS
App App App App
OS OS OS OS

VMWare 16G + 4CPU =

Oracle Virtualization
Virtualization Virtualization
Virtualization

Dell
Physical Server Physical Server 16G RAM
HP
4 CPU

All resources are fully utilized

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 Virtualization Software
• How virtualization works?

App App
OS OS

App App
OS OS
• Hypervisor software
• Program Virtualization Layer
• Operating system

Physical Server

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 Benefits of Virtualization
• Cost $$$
• Real estate
• Electricity
• Ease of management
• Redundancy (lesser downtime)
• Faster deployment of machines
• Resource availability
• Better testing and performance
• Licensing

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 Virtualization Basic Terms
• Bare-metal server
• Hypervisor
• Host

• VM
• Virtual machine
• Guest
• Instance

• Virtualization Manager

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 Virtualization Companies

Company Hypervisor Cloud Technology

• VMWare (ESXi) vCloud
• VMWare player
• Oracle (OVM or OLVM) OCI
• Oracle Virtualbox
• Microsoft (Hyper-V) Azure
• Citrix (Xen Server) Citrix cloud services
• Redhat (KVM) Redhat Cloud Suite
• Amazon AWS
• Google Google Cloud platform.

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 Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud
• Virtualization is a technology whereas cloud is a remote location
which utilizes virtualization technology

Virtualization Cloud

App App
OS OS
• Datacenter
App App • Datacenter App App
• Hardware
OS OS • Hardware OS OS
• Operating System
• Operating System App App
• Provide on-going support
Virtualization • Provide on-going support OS OS
• DO NOT manage apps
• Manage apps Virtualization

Physical Server Physical Server

Customer Datacenter Cloud Datacenter

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